First day of 2011...! It is hard to believe.
I love new beginnings and I love re-prioritizing. It’s fresh; it’s invigorating; it’s motivating. Hope and promise are delectable words for me—I can taste them like morning dew alighting on my tongue.
I have a number of goals for 2011. The one most pertinent to you is a re-commitment to the blogosphere. I would like to attempt a 365 project for my blog—one post per day. I haven’t written in awhile and it’s time to tune in to that side of myself again. A lot of times I find 20-something bloggers to be pretentious and I know my own leanings in that direction. I want to avoid that like the plague. So here is my purposeful laying down of a know-it-all attitude and a surrender of any temptation to emit that “I’m so much cooler than you could ever hope to be, watch me use this impressive vocabulary word” vibe.
Speaking of impressive vocabulary words, Joshua did buy me a fun word-of-the-day tear-off calendar for Christmas, per my request. So while I will steer away from showy word usage, I guarantee you that there will be some new words peppered throughout my posts this year. Especially my favorites from the calendar.
I am going to start a new blog that is an online log of my physical health this year, too. Starting Monday, I will be undertaking the CrossFit Asheville 90-Day Paleo challenge. I want a separate space to record that process as well as a place to start recording my WOD stats so that, say, a year from now, I can look back and laugh at how wimpy I was in the gym this January. If by any chance this sort of thing interests you, I'll share the link for that blog once I get it up and running.
Last night Joshua, Kristie, Michelle, her fiancée Christian, and I celebrated New Year's together... mostly in the kitchen. First event was baking Italian butter cookies and then making homemade icing (recipe that I found on the Pioneer Woman's blog). The icing was a bit of work, but so worth the effort-- especially when we could do such fun things with the cookie decorating!
Then we made dinner (FYI... mashed potatoes with heavy whipping cream added in-- divine) and moved on to the realm of delicious Greek food... spanakopita! We ushered in the New Year with Ryan Seacrest and Dick Clark and a bottle of bubbly.
(The following sentence must be spoken in the bristly accent of an English gentleman:) Very good start to a new year if I do say so myself.
2 comments:
what did you mean when you said "A lot of times I find 20-something bloggers to be pretentious"?
just curious (:
happy new year to you! hope 2011's goin good so far. all the best with the 365 project. i tried it out last year and it fell through after five days. weak, i know :P
Hi there. :) I just meant that I have read several blogs by 20-somethings (although I'm sure this applies to humanity in general, not only people in their 20s) where I just found the tenor of the whole thing to be rather condescending. I think it's easy to do on a blog because it is an outlet for opinion. I am very opinionated myself (if you can't already tell, haha) and I just don't want to be pretentious and emit the vibe that I'm 25 and have it all figured out.
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