I am POSITIVE that 2016 sucked. So did 2014-15 for that matter, but that seemed more personal than 2016 was universally a crappy year, so I'm hoping there is strength in numbers and 2017 will be smashing....or at least fantabulous.
Once day I will go into excruciating detail about what has made the past three or four years a giant conglomeration of suck, but the Christmas season doesn't seem the appropriate time, plus I've quit drinking, so there would nothing to drown my sorrows in as I relived the insanity, so in the manner of a Dallas cliffhanger only without the murdering sister-in-law or the Aqua Net hair and the linebacker shoulder pads or the tacky, yet clean mansion, I will leave you hanging on that. I do have a tendency toward Donna Mills eye shadow, but she was on Knot's Landing, wasn't she? Totally irrelevant, but I always have to give props to my face and hair style icon from the high school days.
Facebook became pervasive around the time I quit blogging, plus I was busy with very important things such as playing online poker (no money exchanged), plus working two jobs and dealing with that whole mom/housecleaning thing that I really suck at. In the time since then:
Once day I will go into excruciating detail about what has made the past three or four years a giant conglomeration of suck, but the Christmas season doesn't seem the appropriate time, plus I've quit drinking, so there would nothing to drown my sorrows in as I relived the insanity, so in the manner of a Dallas cliffhanger only without the murdering sister-in-law or the Aqua Net hair and the linebacker shoulder pads or the tacky, yet clean mansion, I will leave you hanging on that. I do have a tendency toward Donna Mills eye shadow, but she was on Knot's Landing, wasn't she? Totally irrelevant, but I always have to give props to my face and hair style icon from the high school days.
Facebook became pervasive around the time I quit blogging, plus I was busy with very important things such as playing online poker (no money exchanged), plus working two jobs and dealing with that whole mom/housecleaning thing that I really suck at. In the time since then:
- I've changed jobs to a high-school only setting. I teach 11th grade English and love it.
- I am also a Project-Based Learning "champion"/coach for our faculty and that terrifies me.
- I've wrecked a few cars
- Five has graduated from high school
- Jay is a senior
- Sam is about to start driving
- I've gained and lost and gained and lost the same weight
- I haven't been outside the country since 2011
- I have 2938 cats and another English mastiff
- I realized I love to cook.
- I also like to buy beads and chain and dib dabs to make jewelry, but I never seem to have time to use it all up.
So, my goals for 2017 are simple:
- Focus on me and kids more--we have fun plans for the rest of the spring, including hitting up a new Nashville restaurant once a month and seeing more art or hearing more live music.
- Work out again--Sam loves to go and I desparately need to go. I have a pair of Lucky jeans and a pair of Levis that are taunting me with the idea that I will never fit in them again. I don't even care if they are not in style any more. I will wear them by the fall!
- Cook more, complain less.
- Do something with all this jewelry stuff. If I sell pieces for a quarter, I'm better off than it being in a box.
- Take an art class of some sort with Sam this summer.
- Lesson plan, lesson plan, lesson plan. I'm excited about the upcoming semester and new things that are happening.
- Save money--it is time for a vacation soon!
- TACKLE whatever life throws my way. Good, bad or crazy. The Queen of Procrastination muct retire her crown*
I wrote that as I am avoiding cleaning the kitchen or taking a shower. Baby steps--I've been avoiding restarting this for weeks.
