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Every year when Spring rolls around, I really love that vibe of renewal, flowers in bloom, etc. Never mind that I live near the Everglades so Spring is more about love bugs ruining the paint job on my car and alligators creeping out to scare me on Route 441. I don't know why we don't celebrate New Year's in the Spring instead of January. It feels like way more of a fresh start than in yucky January. So here's to a fresh start to blogging again. Hooray!
Here are a New Year's/ Spring resolutions, sprinkled with some cold reality checks I've come to admit about myself:
1) I have to write every day, a little bit at a time. Much as I fantasize about barreling through a book like some authors, I have to do it in pieces and let it unfold. If I can be disciplined about what I eat and how I work out, I can be disciplined about writing.
2) I need an hour to shower and choose the right jeans and get ready to go anywhere. Not a half hour. Whenever I think it's a half hour it's really forty-five minutes. Then I inevitably have to run back in the house and make sure the dog has water and that I have an apple ready to snack on at all times. I've been lying to myself and it only makes me late everywhere I go.
3) I have to keep a clean purse, get organized and know where to find things. I criticize when my kids can't find things. That makes me a hypocrite. I have to get organized. It's the only way to be successful. And not annoying.
4) I need to take at least one hot bath a week. I always wanted to be a woman who takes a hot bath with bubbles and enjoys the guilty pleasure of reading gossip magazines and juicy paperbacks while easing sore muscles from running under jacuzzi jets, possibly while wearing a tiara. There's no reason I can't make that happen.
5) I need to stop saying yes to having lunch with people. A lunch date screws up my writing mojo. I probably haven't finished a book fast enough because I'm too busy meeting someone for coffee and chicken soup at Panera. From now on, only meeting for writing dates. Let's see how that works out.
6) I need to go back to writing in study rooms at libraries. Those dreary little dim rooms totally motivate me.
7) I need to stand up straight. My posture sucks. Plus it makes your stomach flatter.
8) Get rid of clutter and that includes people. Plenty of people toss toxic people out of their life and don't feel guilty about it. Streamline, streamline, streamline.
Kurt Vonegut said people are who they pretend to be. Who are you pretending to be? Who do you want to pretend to be? Think about it . . .
3) I have to keep a clean purse, get organized and know where to find things. I criticize when my kids can't find things. That makes me a hypocrite. I have to get organized. It's the only way to be successful. And not annoying.
4) I need to take at least one hot bath a week. I always wanted to be a woman who takes a hot bath with bubbles and enjoys the guilty pleasure of reading gossip magazines and juicy paperbacks while easing sore muscles from running under jacuzzi jets, possibly while wearing a tiara. There's no reason I can't make that happen.
5) I need to stop saying yes to having lunch with people. A lunch date screws up my writing mojo. I probably haven't finished a book fast enough because I'm too busy meeting someone for coffee and chicken soup at Panera. From now on, only meeting for writing dates. Let's see how that works out.
6) I need to go back to writing in study rooms at libraries. Those dreary little dim rooms totally motivate me.
7) I need to stand up straight. My posture sucks. Plus it makes your stomach flatter.
8) Get rid of clutter and that includes people. Plenty of people toss toxic people out of their life and don't feel guilty about it. Streamline, streamline, streamline.
Kurt Vonegut said people are who they pretend to be. Who are you pretending to be? Who do you want to pretend to be? Think about it . . .
Favorite Line This Week: "A writer? I could be a writer. I just finished my third book. I have a ghost writer. So I could get my writing done, no problem." -- Teresa Giudice on The Celebrity Apprentice
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