Let's Talk About 2013

 

I don't make New Years Resolutions. 2013 is the perfect example of why. Early this year, I had the idea I should learn to water ski in 2013. Good goal. However, what I didn't know is that by the time my family's Bear Lake trip came around this summer, I would be recovering from emergency surgery to remove a hemorrhaging cyst and my infected appendix. Not an ideal time to take up water skiing. (I probably had enough pain meds that I could have done it. But I didn't have enough pain meds to talk my family into letting me.) It's a good thing I technically didn't set a water skiing resolution for 2013, because I would have failed miserably.

 

It's much more convenient for me to set my resolutions retroactively. So today, on the last day of 2013, here are the goals I would have set for this year, if I had been smart enough.

 

Resolution #1) Start a new job. After years of applying and interviewing, I was finally offered a job I wanted with the LDS Church. I work in Risk Management and I love it.



 

 

I also said good-bye to my job (but NEVER my friends) at American Insurance. After 10 years, a lot of good memories and a lot of bad days, it was definitely time for a new chapter.



Resolution #2) Spend time with my family.

 

Especially my sister.

 

Resolution #3) Do fun things. Like Disneyland.

 

 

The Manti Pageant.

 

 

 

Shakespeare Festival.

Tea parties.

 

Photo shoots on the floor at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building.



 

Bear Lake.

 

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert.

 

Resolution #4) Attend two new-to-me temples: Brigham City, Utah and Seattle, Washington.

 

Resolution #5) Join Facebook (which I did reluctantly but now enjoy) and the Mixies Book Club. Read Wonder. Talk about it incessantly because it's Just. That. Good.

 

Resolution #6) Finish off the year with a fabulous family Christmas.

 

 

It's very possible that Sandra Bullock said it best, ""Life is a series of disastrous moments. In between those moments, that's when you savor, savor, savor." I bid farewell to 2013, a year of disastrous moments and a lot of savoring in between. And I am excited to welcome 2014, a year that promises a little more of this...



 

And a lot more of this....

And few-to-no disasters. Because it's going to be MY year.