On my re-emergence into Blogland and it's timely coincidence with the start of yet another new year, I figured that I would look back at the things I was going to try and accomplish last year.

1. Make nine consecutive on-time student loan payments. Handled that, off to a good start.

2. Speak what is not as if it were so. Tried that... sometimes it worked a little better than others.

3. Stop letting other people put their trash into my trashcan, because when I have something that belongs in there, it won't fit. Yeah well... we can't win them all, LOL!

4. Stick to the yoga AT LEAST three times a week. And on this note.. 2008 was a COLOSSAL failure. I haven't SEEN the inside of the yoga studio since January... **sigh***

5. Stop pulling him in when I want and pushing him away when I don't. Okay, so in my defense, I tried that... I REALLY did. HONEST. It didn't work. I tried to respect his choice, and to be honest, it worked for a while. But then I looked in the mirror (both the literal and the figurative one) and realized that he, in fact, deserved better, and that maybe, just MAYBE that the better choice would be me. And so we are here. Multitasking together **snicker**

6. 2007 is over. I can't get it back and I don't want it back. Stop talking about what I could've done and what I should've done. I couldn't and I didn't. So release it. You can't reach out to grab something new if your hands are already full. I think I did a pretty good job of distancing myself from the past, and it gets farther away in my rearview mirror every day.

7. I'm growing my hair out. No scissors (unless it's for a quick trim) until 2009. I'm even going to try to go without a relaxer until then too, but that's iffy. Yeah, about that. So if you have peeked at the post below, you already know that I have failed miserably at this. Well, I did go without a relaxer until December 27, so that was pretty much a roaring success. But I took the scissors to it that day as well, so... wait, you were thinking that THIS was an actual haircut? Aha! Made ya look! That was a wig.

8. Say no. I actually tend to do that quite a bit- not as much as I should, but I am working on it.

9. Find my birth parent(s). Well, I did accomplish that. Found... what was I calling them... Maureen and John. Spent New Year's Eve with Maureen and her husband, got a text message from John on Christmas Day, so check that one off the list.


10. Bring Christmas in on an island. Yeah, no. I was on my couch watching old episodes of my favorite soap operas. **sigh**

Did I mention that I don't like doing this whole looking back thing? LOL