Resolutions. I have them.
I don’t always set New Year’s resolutions, but this year I’ve got a couple. The first is one I started before Christmas, already — to get seriously gluten-free with my diet. (I’ve been mostly gluten-free for the last number of years, but now it’s time to get serious and weed out the hidden sources of gluten and also, oh, stop cheating when presented with a delicious baked good at a party or some such)
The second is to go to bed on time. That is, before midnight. Ideally, before 11 p.m. So far I’ve accomplished this both days this week! The reason this is so hard for me is that my schedule is flexible, and I work from home a lot and I rarely have to be out of the house before noon. That makes it easy to set the alarm for 9 or 9:30 a.m. when I meander to bed at 1 a.m. or later.
The last is one I came up with this morning. I’m going to keep track of the books I read this year. I tend to think of myself as “not much of a reader,” but lately I realize that’s only because I tend to hang out with ridiculously voracious readers (my mother, for example, can easily polish off three or four a week). I’m keeping a list — we’ll see how I do. I’m on GoodReads; you can friend me there if you like. Here’s my little badge thing.
Do you have any resolutions?
Tags: books, new year's, reading
January 5th, 2010 at 5:15 pm
A million in my head, but only a few I have fleshed out. But, going to bed earlier is one of mine, too. My goal is to be in bed reading by 10:30 and to read till 11 or 11:30. So far I haven’t done it.