I HEREBY RESOLVE

Are you guilty of the dreaded New Year's Resolutions?? I make them every year and some years I actually succeed. Though if you measure my successes against all the years I have tried, it is a record that would make a politician squirm.

My only real successes have been to quit smoking, quit drinking and to start a blog. My weight loss resolve is an on going , yearly battle since I retired. This year I have managed to net a 10 pound loss for the year after ups and downs. Whee. Not much but at least I am going the right direction.

I consider blogging one of my successes for I actually started on December 27, 2008 and have continued for two years. Now I did quit the daily blogs somewhere after 200 posts but I still keep plugging away at least twice a week.

Such a journey blogging has been. It was not anything like I thought it would be. It has completely exceeded my expectations. I had visions of pouring words into an electronic abyss with no response or acknowledgment, then slowly fading into silence. I was delightfully wrong.

I am astounded every day at how many amazing people I have met from so many different locations and lifestyles. To have accomplished this physically, person to person, with out the aid of the Net, would have been unthinkable. The computer and the Internet for me rank as the most incredible inventions of the last century. I resolve to continue blogging.

I also resolve to exercise a bunch more. When I strained a muscle in my back this morning pulling the seal off the dog food container, I thought, enough is enough. My muscles are really getting puny. I now need a wheel barrow to lug the 50 lb bags of bird seed. Pitiful I tell you.

To accomplish a stronger body, I really need to spend less time sitting in front of the computer and to actually move. There should be no reason why I can't blog, surf the Net and exercise too.

There really are a lot of hours in the day. Moderation and organization are somewhere in my system, I just need to activate them. So I need to either put a limit on my computer time or at least establish a time period dedicated solely to exercise. I do so resolve.

I also resolve to make a real effort to travel more and to see as much of this country as I can, while I still can, and to quit finding excuses why not to.

So those are my resolutions. To exercise more, work on my food choices, travel and to continue blogging. Considering my past record, one of those may make it all the way through to 2012.

So what is on your plate for 2011 or are you all ready perfect ??

LETS HOPE 2011 IS A WINNER. OUR PRETTY BLUE PLANET IS DUE.

SEE YA NEXT YEAR.