Happy New Year

What a whiner I was last night! I actually came back here to either edit my last post or delete it or something. But no, I've decided that it was authentically me and I'll just leave my resentments and self-pitying and all that stuff hanging out there for the world (small as it is) to see.

This is my first New Year's as a blogger. I was going to resolve to blog more in 2007, but while that may be my intention today, I know how these things go. So I'll just say that it's what I'd like to do, but I can't resolve anything further than when I go to sleep tonight.

Here's some of the other things I "resolve". I'm refocusing on my weight--which I did not do last year, actually, choosing instead to focus on my finances. And I made some strides there, which I hope--resolve? intend?--to continue in 2007. Because, really, I gotta.

I desperately need to become more disciplined about all the paper in my life. In particular, I have to catch up on Quicken and I'm realizing that the only way that this is going to happen, because I don't seem to be running out of work so that I can take a breather and do administrative stuff, is to find a way to work Quicken back into my life. I've done it for other things--reading, for example, where I realized a few years back that I was doing precious little of it. Now I have a book in the bathroom, a book in the kitchen and a book in the bedroom and I make time for reading at least at night before I go to sleep, though I find I do more than that, actually. So I have to find a way to do this for Quicken (and dealing with other administrative stuff, like filing). One way to start, I think, will be to substitute one solitaire game for a few minutes of Quicken. It'll be frustratingly slow to do it that way, but it's a start and I can always enlarge on that. We'll see tomorrow (unless I start today--which I don't wanna! Heh.).

I intend to write more. More fiction. I'd like to get published, too. Of course, I'd have to submit my fiction--we'll see.

I'm sitting here, seeing the year ahead stretch out in front of me and am reminded that I don't know anything that's going to happen, really. Oh, I know I'll pay the rent and my taxes and there'll be work, a lot of which I'll farm out to my Sharks. I'm hoping to get a loan to be able to expand my business, hire an assistant, reorganize my office space (maybe get a carpenter to build me stuff?). I'm hoping to join the Y and get some exercise back into my life. Reorganizing my office may mean selling my NordicTrack, which I can't even use these days. I've got lots of ideas of what I'd like to do.

But I'm choosing to feel hopeful about 2007. It's my 12th year in business. 2006 was much better than 2005 and I have reason to think 2007 will be at least as good, maybe even better.

I guess we'll see.