Well I decided it was time for my first blog entry. I previously hadn't done one as I couldn't quite decide where to start. Logically it seemed like a first entry should be serious and create a solid base to jump from. But that wasn't happening. So here on this last day of 2010 I'm just going to ponder on a few silly things I and I am guessing some of you do.
Today I was getting old magazines that I have read ready to take to the exchange table at the library. I like to put them into chronological order and those that I subscribe to I take a black sharpie pen and black out the label. Most magazines in a pile like this have the same markings. Why? If it needs to be a big secret that I subscribe to Real Simple, Fitness, and Self magazines then I probably don't really need to be putting them out. And what does it matter if somebody finds out that I went to the University of Northern Colorado and my husband University of Arizona. So I didn't do it! Oh the danger and excitement. Loaded them all up but the library was already closed for the day and the year. But they are in my truck and I will drop them off next week.
Since it's New Years Eve there are all sorts of things people do. I actually just heard of one familys tradition and it I really like. They have a master calendar that they write various appts. on and such. But they also record anything else that happens. At the end of the year they take that calendar and go back through it and see what has occured in their lives. Those years where maybe things didn't go so well they might burn the calendar month by month int he fireplace. No it doesn't erase what happened - but it sets them on the new years path. I really like that idea. My personal thing with calendars is I won't put up a new one until the actual first day. That goes for each month - I won't flip until the first. Go figure.
Of course New Years eve is also the time of making resolutions for the new year - usually to better ourselves in one way or another. This blog is going to be part of my path as I journey on. Hence the title Two Steps Forward & One Step Back - cuz that's the way it goes sometimes. So welcome. I hope you enjoy and together we'll look at this world of ours.
