01.01.11.
Pretty cool day to have a birthday! MINE!! 1.1.11 has to count as my champagne birthday . . . I don’t think my parents let me indulge back in 1980, so I’m bringing out the champagne this year! We’re talking mimosa’s, champagne cupcakes, the works!
New Years Day is always the time when people sit around and decide to make a resolution for the upcoming year. I have never done one . . . I might have as a teenager but it was probably “This year I will get skinny.” Ya, so much for attainable resolution setting!
I hate resolutions. For the last number of years, I have stood firmly on the belief that why wait for the New Year to do something that you can today?
Well, I have fallen off my high horse and I think I finally get it. It’s the formality. Set a goal. Reach for it. Attain it. Success!
Yesterday I posted 11 Goals for 2011, but my resolutions are different than my goals.
1. Learn how to budget . . . stick to in . . . and stop spending money on unnecessary things.
2. I’m giving up magazines. I find that they used to be an enjoyable event, to what is now a stressful occurrence. When I look at the pile that just seems to grow and grow and grow, I get stressed out. I guess I’m spending my time doing different activities these days . . . like blogging!!
I think that two resolutions is enough for me to start with in 2011, especially since I haven’t set a one since the 80’s. Happy 2011 everyone 🙂 I’m off for my birthday brunch. Cheers to champagne before lunch!
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