New Year Plans

The plan to write my own list of “# Gifts under $##” fell through, but I was focused on my own holiday—which was very merry, thank you. With Christmas fading away and 2008 with it, I feel like the new year will be a great way to change my life—as most everyone does. I’ve come up with New Year’s Resolutions before, but I feel more serious about this batch. I always have this idea in my head about how I would like to be and what I would like to do. I think it’s time I start working to that ideal.

My new plan is to compose a list of ways I would like either to improve myself (reading the Bible more) or to change myself (taking my shower in the morning instead of at night). When I’m done, I’ll make a page and post them here to remind myself. Some may be more long-term and may not be fully achieved in 2009, but a start is better than just standing there. Right? It will rpobably be my biggest plan thus far—or at least one of them.

Wish me luck! And good luck to all of you with your own resolutions! Happy Hanukkah! Merry Christmas! Joyous Kwanzaa! Happy New Year!

Best Laid Plans…

I have been away from this blog for quite some time—months! It almost seemed as if this plan was doomed to be another failed plan. Personal drama and busy RL (real life) kept me from making too many plans.

I participated in NaNoWriMo, about which you can read in my other blog here. The only other plan I have is with Christmas, and I cannot say what is happening with my gifts for fear that someone will stumble across this. However! I will post what my idea is after the gifts are given, and I may even have pictures.

While I don’t really have a “plan” for anything else yet, my creative juices have been stirred by a tea party my church’s women’s group had for our Christmas shindig this year. I cannot wait for warmer weather now, and in a few days, I may reveal more on this. I dearly would like to have a “tea” party (but modified as I don’t like tea), but I will save the gushing for later.

Another thing is that my friend Cassi is now engaged! So congratulations to her and her fiancé. Perhaps I will have weddings plans to blog?

I read an article today about having a frugal Christmas, which included a list of 8 gifts under $15. I was unimpressed with it, and I did not feel the ideas were “breaking the mold.” The first item on the list was a coupon book! How is that something new? Every child in America has made at least one of those in grade school for some holiday (Christmas, Mother’s Day, and Father’s Day are probably the ones most often done for it). Anyway, I am thinking of making my own list (maybe with a different dollar amount). There are probably a million articles out there like this, especially now, but I don’t care.

All the Christmas cards are written and in envelopes, just need to be sealed and stamped. Most of my friends’ gifts are bought. I just have family left to do really, so I’m off to ponder what would be great gifts for them.

Ideal Christmas

I ♥ Christmas. I start to want to “plan” it—mostly think on it—mid-year (June, July, August). Most people just roll their eyes at me. Holly doesn’t like me to talk about it because, she says, it gets her all excited and wanting Christmas, but the holiday is months away.

However! It turns out I have more friends willing to discuss it with me than I had previously thought. I used to talk to LA about it before she became an adult and had to work to pay bills. ^_~ I recently found out on our trip to Helen that Cassi likes Victorian(-esque) Christmas, too! Just a couple days ago, I discovered ederyn and cozzybob were not only willing to listen to my fantasies, but they joined in!

Thoughts of Yesteryear

When I was younger, I loved back-to-school. I loved writing out my younger siblings’ supply lists. After we brought everything back, I’d pack up everything into their backpacks (I always got it to work), and I’d make “schedules” for them. I’d get together with each of them, and we’d determine when they’d wake up, when they’d eat breakfast, when they’d get dressed, etc. After creating all the schedules, I’d have them “practice,” though after a few years, I knew they wouldn’t adhere to the programs. Still, it was fun to do.

Start Of Yet Another Plan

Hello. This is where I’m going to try to keep track of all of my doomed-from-the-start plans. I’m a Hopeless Planner, which is similar to a Hopeless Romantic, I assume. I love to plan things: events, trips, holidays, and even things that will never happen. More often than not, my plans fizzle and die before they see the light of day.

Now you can see just what all crazy ideas pop into my little head.