Resolutions

New Year's Resolutions: we make 'em so we break 'em, right?

Maybe I'm foolish, but I really like the idea of starting fresh every year and resolving to do better things with life. I mean, we all need a little gut check every now and then, right? Come February though, March for a particularly tenacious year, those January resolutions have dissolved to nothing more than forgotten pipe dreams that are left collecting dust for the next 9 months; that is until they're brushed right off the next time Jan. 1 rolls around and we think, Maybe this will be the year.

Well, I'm clearly still delusional and foolish, because I'm truly genuinely convinced that 2010 will honestly be one of the best years ever. For real. The big year of accomplishments, this is it folks, I'm telling you. And so I've compiled a list.

I like things in 3's (could this possibly have something to do with my Catholic upbringing?), and so here's a run-down of my top 3 resolutions for 2010:

1. Write more, through 3 (there's that number again) new writing projects I've made up for myself:

a) Keeping up the Miss B blog, a goodbye of sorts to my single self;

b) Capturing our engagement story, down to every last hopelessly romantic detail, because it's a pretty great story that I know I'll want to remember forever, even after the Alzheimer's kicks in; and

c) Compiling the Hong Kong love letters. This last one's another post altogether, but to sum up, I studied abroad in Hong Kong a couple months after Clay and I first started dating, and since I rarely had access to long-distance telephone, we wrote back and forth some pretty prolific and intense e-love-letters.

2. Run fast! This week, I start a new running program with Coach Darren Brown designed to make me a lean, mean, faster-than-ever running machine. Our goal race is the Texas Round-Up 10k in April, with a few other races along the way. The past few years, I've been in a 50+ minute time rut for my 10k race (10k = 6.2 miles). I'm hoping this program will cut me down to below 50 minutes, and maybe even get close to 45? Well, a girl can dream.

And last but not least...

3. Marry Clay.

Ok, so I might be slightly cheating with that last item. That's definitely going to happen this year, even if I have to drag Clay down to City Hall to do it. (Note: Eloping or showing up at City Hall to get married is a secret dream of mine that would never actually happen. My mother, and even Clay, would sooner disown me than miss seeing me walk down the aisle/garden path/hallway/[fill in the blank], along with 250+ closest friends and family also looking on, naturally.)

But anyway, I think it's an awesome list if I do say so myself. I've got everything covered, mind, body, and soul. Mind: write. Body: run. And Soul: marriage, because you know I'm pretty sure Clay just might be my soul mate. (Yeah yeah, I know I'm sappy, I just got engaged, what do you expect? Just please try and refrain from gagging all over my blog, thankyouverymuch.)

A very Happy 2010 to you and yours, and cheers to the new decade! Did I mention that I really like the even years?