Jessie 2.0

There are certain times of year when I can just feel the air changing ... and I need to be changing along with it.

Fall is one of those times ... my brain is still trained to think about the beginning of a new school year and I can't help but feel that I should be cowering under a load of giant books and putting my brain to some good use ... and consequently the beginning of summer also feels like a time when I should be throwing all responsibility to the wind and running barefoot through a meadow of wild flowers or something else hippie-esq.  When my birthday rolls around in July I am usually feeling rather retrospective ... looking back at the last year of my life and seeing the things that I could have done better or differently.

And now as I am a mere few hours away from the new year I am desperatly trying not to succumb to the change in the air that is willing me to make new year's resolutions.  I can't honestly remember a time in my life where I have kept a new year's resolutions ... yet at the close of every year I think that this next year will be my year ... that I will do all the things that I want to do and will finally become that person that I know exists somewhere inside me if only I could find the motivation to dig her out from under all the muck.

So what would I do if were to make some resolutions?  (Which I am not) 

• Quit smoking
• Start working out
• Learn to play the piano
• Go back to church
• Do some sort of 365 project ... blogging every day, taking pictures ... something else that helps me tap into my creativity every day
• Take some work related traning classes and read books about my field
• Learn to cook more food

I'm sure if I thought a little more I could come up with about a hundred more things that I want to do in this next year ... it's a good thing I don't make resolutions! :-)