Happy (belated) New Year everyone!!!

There's something about a new year that makes a person feel extra optimistic and hopeful. Sure, new years is just another day like any other on our trip around the sun. Yet as we throw out our old calendars and look foreward tot he fresh, new, unscribbled in ones, there is just something so invigorating that makes us look foreward to the next three hundred and sixty five days.

I'm not usually the type to make New Years Resolutions, but for some reason I figured this year I ought to (perhaps if I did it would give me better years than the ones gone past). They are very lighthearted, but are things that I would very much like to work towards.

1- Read at least one book a week.
During university I found that I barely had time to read all of my assigned textbooks readings, let alone anything for my own personal enjoyment. I think I maybe read 10 books for myself in the entire 5 years that I was in post secondary - and I call myself a book lover, yeesh! Now that I have more free time, I really want to get back into ready. Prior to Christmas I attempted this, but I ended up falling about 5 weeks behind even though I was reading almost ever night - yikes! I know it's a big thing to attempt, but I"m going to give it a whirl and see how it goes! :)

2- Draw more!
Drawing has always been one of my passions in life. If I wasn't doodling on notes, I was drawing this silly square-a-day comic strips about adventures my friends and I supposidly went on. It even got to the point that I made one about my best friend, calling her Super-Amy, and coming up with a big plot surrounding it. Over time, this evolved into Snowpirate, a supposdily weekly webcomic. Yet even though I've been doing Snowpirate for going on 5 years now, I don't even have 52 strips in the archive!!! It's rather gloomy, I know. So, my goal is to start drawing some more. Hopefully at least once everday, even if it's in my drawing journal. I also have a few friends who have promised to kick my ass and get me motivated to work on snowpirate some more.

3- Stop being a lazy duff!
Yeah... this one is rather all encompassing. I have a habit of just falling into lazy ruts and not doing anything. On days I don't work I'll sometimes sleep in until 10, and then just act like a slug and not do anything productive (even as I write this I'm still in my pyjamas; of course, I am blogging, so that is being productive). There are so many things that I want to do in life, I just have to remember my motivation (that was buried under dust while I was in school) and get back to it! There are so many great things to see, people to me, goals I want to achieve... if I could just get out of bed and get to it!

So those are my three. I know, they seem rather silly, but I want small goals that make me a better person, instead of those basic go-to resoluations like lose weight and eat healthy. I'm also going into this realising that it might take more than the three months to actually achieve these resolutions (most people give up on their resolutions by March). These are more like goals I want to work towards, not that I'm going to dive into feet first.

I've already gotten a good start on the first one, with a book almost halfway finished. Of course, I started it technically last year... but we won't split hairs.. he..hehehe. The second one I have been doing a little bit of sketching here and there. Not much, but its better than nada. And lastly.. well... I'm blogging aren't I? Yes yes, I know I'm still in my pjs, but at least I'm working on something!!

So cheers everyone! Here is to a new calendar year, and to a refreshing start!

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