Happy New Year and Happy Epiphany! (a tad belated)

First off, an announcement. I have decided these posts need a new sort of format. Since they have no format at present, that shouldn’t be too hard. ;) Actually, I really wanted to toss this entire blog and start a new one, but whatever good intentions I started with, it would probably disintegrate into randomness like this one anyway, and I don’t really want a ton of blogs floating around cyberspace in a sporadic trail of chaos behind me. So, from now on, perhaps this blog will behave itself a little better. We’ll see.

Well since this is a belated New Years Post, I suppose a list of New Years Resolutions would be appropriate. Or perhaps, entertaining, in any case.

• Devotions every morning. No excuses.
• Go to sleep between 10 & 11pm on school nights. Tartar sauce.
• Try all the cheeses at the co-op (as budget allows).
• Cook dinner at least once a week.
• Turn 20. :D
• Finish sewing my quilt.
• Sketch more often.
• Birdwatching! Yes, I’m that dorky.
• Start writing my declamations before Thursday morning. Not that I would ever do that.. *cough cough* ..
• Recapture the piano from storage.
• Take more walks.. and play more ultimate. :)
• Learn how to serve a volleyball (and not by luck on the 23rd attempt).
• Spend less time on the internet. The real world is more exciting.
• Read at least two books every week.
• Learn how to swing dance properly.
• Go cherry picking! :D
• Get Dad to teach me how to work on my car.. and drive stick shift. *horror music*
• Learn how to knit a hat.
• Not get sick every week of next term.
• Pull out my fencing gear and finally remember all 8 of those parry positions again.
• Babysit as often as I can.
• Make more waffles! Because the world always needs more waffles. Or is it lerts?
• Watch more nature documentaries and PBS/BBC shows. Just because.
• Buy a plant and attempt to keep it alive in the basement.

Haggis. Isn’t that a neat word? I think I’d like to try it but I won’t put it on my list of resolutions. I’m not that sure.

Resolution lists are fun to write, I think, because they’re so hopeful. Not that I will actually succeed at many of them.. but you never know.

Because we all need some inspiration for the new year.. or in any case a laugh:The only reason I can console myself to the fact that Orlando Bloom and Kiera Knightley made it into an “inspirational” video is its utter ridiculousness.

And now that I have rambled far too long.. the format part of our program. I always enjoy when people list their “picks,” so I thought I’d try my hand at it. Here goes…

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Of Interest

• Book: The Importance of Being Earnest
• Music: “New Hampshire” – Matt Pond PA
• Movie: Planet Earth
• Curious About: Snow leopards
• Check it Out: The Flying Irish Running Club. Is that fun or what?
• Delight: Mom reading The Hobbit aloud in the morning during break. Just like those old beloved homeschool days.