1.\u00a0 Spend less time with my family.\u00a0 How can I get my research done and tell them where they came from if I spend all my spare time hanging around with them?<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0 Write something for the blog twice a month.\u00a0 How hard is it?\u00a0 If you\u2019re me, harder than it should be.\u00a0 The problem is every time I sit down to write something I just have to check one thing or two or twelve and then it\u2019s tomorrow. Must learn to accept lack of knowledge and to practice brevity.\u00a0 Hah, not happening.<\/p>\n
2b.\u00a0 Give Pat a break and reliably write something twice a month.<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0 Get organized.<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0 Get organized.<\/p>\n
5.\u00a0 Clean less.\u00a0 After they stop laughing and recover the ability to breathe my friends will tell you that it is actually not possible for me to clean less.\u00a0 It is true that I do not clean, but when I invite people for dinner I do feel the need to make a flat surface available for holding dishes and flatware and such. This means that I declutter and when I start decluttering I can\u2019t stop.\u00a0 Since I am not an organized person (see resolutions 3 and 4) this means everything gets put in some random place never to be seen again.\u00a0 No more cleaning.<\/p>\n
6.\u00a0 Tame The Beast. .\u00a0 I have a long list of places to write to, places to call, and websites to investigate.\u00a0 I will do one thing on that list every day, okay, every week.\u00a0 Most importantly nothing goes on the list unless something comes off.\u00a0 The beast may not get shorter, but at least it will stop growing.<\/p>\n
7.\u00a0 Accept the piles, love the piles, become one with the piles.\u00a0 Returning once again to the fact that I am not well organized, my office is a mass of piles of paper, books, post-it notes, magazines and lots of other stuff.\u00a0 Some of these piles have enough dust on them to make it seem like tiny ecosystems have developed in their depths.\u00a0 Sometimes late at night the tiny people talk to me.\u00a0 But weird as it seems, I can find things in the piles.\u00a0 It\u2019s when I try to organize that I get into trouble.\u00a0 This year I will embrace the pile system and no cob will be deprived of its web.<\/p>\n
8.\u00a0 Gain weight.\u00a0 Might as well make one resolution that I will actually keep.<\/p>\n
9.\u00a0 Be better.\u00a0 Better, nicer, kinder, more patient, more appreciative, more grateful. I know that\u2019s more than one thing, but I consider myself a work in progress and this year I hope to be a slightly better version of the original.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s my list for this year and I\u2019m going to get right to it, just as soon as I finish the Christmas cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1.\u00a0 Spend less time with my family.\u00a0 How can I get my research done and tell them where they came from if I spend all my spare time hanging around with them? 2.\u00a0 Write something for the blog twice a …<\/p>\n