New Year’s Resolutions I Can Keep

As I have mentioned in the past, I am not much of a resolution-maker. I find everyday life challenging enough – I don’t need to be beating myself up over the 5 lbs I promised to take off my thighs or the broccoli that should be finding its way to my plate more often. I also don’t want to be left out of the hype – “2013, A New and Better You.” I want to be an improved version of myself. Who doesn’t? So, just so I don’t feel left out in the cold, here is my list of resolutions that will be pretty difficult to break:

• Drink more coffee. I already drink a lot but since I don’t see an end to the night shift, I am going to drink more. Buy up on Starbucks stock. I bet I can make it rise.
  
• Eat more brussels sprouts than last year. This shouldn’t be hard since I didn’t have one single brussels sprouts this year. I am pretty sure I can at least manage one especially since I have a bag of them in my freezer. The bag has been there for six months but how much can they change? I didn't even know they had a "s" after brussel in their name. I eat them so infrequently I don't even know their proper name.
  
• Visit the bookstore. I love bookstores. Nothing beats a cup of coffee and browsing the aisles of all those books waiting to be read. A new Barnes and Noble just opened not far from me. It has a Starbucks. I think I will be quite happy there. I know Barnes and Noble has nothing on Powell’s but it is closer so it will have to do.
  
• Be called a name I have never been called before. This one is a bit out of my hands but since I was called unimaginable names this year and a patient even tried to take a swing at me this week, I am pretty sure this one is in the bag.
  
• Run in a mud run. There was a groupon for the Warrior Dash and I bought it. I am too cheap to buy it and not run so done deal. Oddly, I remember throwing myself over a log in a muddy river thinking “I can check this off my list” and yet I signed up again…
  
• Hang upside down. You get a new perspective on life when you are upside down. I find handstands too hard any more. I would prefer to carry out this resolution on a roller coaster but, in case I don’t find one, the monkey bars at the kid’s school will do. At least once.
  
• Stop being so hard on myself. Life’s short. I need to stop stressing over the small stuff – like the fact that sometimes my son goes to school with pants on that are frayed and have holes because the laundry hasn’t been done for a week. He doesn’t notice so why should I care?

I think that about wraps it up. I feel good about this list. I see enough midnights on a regular basis so I think I will celebrate New Year’s Eastern Time. Happy New Year.