On New Year's Resolutions

Ah, the beginning of a new year. And the question I'm being asked a lot these days, "What's your new years resolution?" I'll be honest, I'm not very good at keeping a new years resolution. Giving up something for 40 days during Lent? Now that's a commitment I can sink my teeth into. Probably because during Lent you get to fudge once a week. I mean really, who can't commit to something six days at a time? So come this February 25th through April 11th, you can expect me to meet my yearly Lenten obligation of giving up soda, except of course on days that begin with "SUN."
Until then, I needed to come up with a new years resolution that I knew I could keep. Because let's face it, failure is just depressing. So, without further ado, my new years resolution for 2009, is to write in my blog at least once a week.
I'm a writer, it's what I do, I was born to write. When I was a little girl, and by that I mean from about fifth grade until I was a senior in high school, I absolutely couldn't go to sleep at night until I wrote in my diary. I wrote in teeny-tiny letters, and came up with abbreviations for peoples names and certain words, so I could fit more stuff on one page. But if one page wasn't long enough I would get out a piece of notebook paper and write some more and then tuck it inside the pages of my diary. Lord knows how many hours I spent writing in my diaries. I still have them and every now and then I drag them out for a good laugh, or cry! You remember what it was like to be a teenager.
Then when I went back to school I started an unsuccesful blog, "Confessions of a thirty-something college student." I mean, did I really think I was going to have time to carry a full load of classes, commute two hours, do homework, take care of my husband and two kids, AND KEEP UP A BLOG! Please!
Okay, school's but a fond memory, and about a year ago I started another blog called Observations. I managed to create a profile and make one blog entry during the whole of 2008. Mind you, I had a lot of great ideas for my blog, and I wrote dozens of blog entries in my head. I just never found the time to put finger to keyboard and get my observations down in print.
So with that being said, as God and you as my witness, I'm making the commitment right now to write in my blog at least 52 times in 2009. If you have the desire and the time I hope you'll return and check out my Observations.