Ok, this is the few days when I get my hopes up that I will really make a change for the better in the upcoming year. It sometimes lasts for a few weeks at the most, but I still make resolutions anyway.

My parents are getting older, my mom is retiring this year (my dad's already been retired for a while), but they don't have any special plans for their retirement. They are pretty much the polar opposite of those ads you see during the Sunday morning news shows. Their retirement will not consist of spending time abroad, or skydiving, or sailing around the world, or playing golf, or any number of other things that people look forward to when retiring. Their life will probably be almost exactly as it is now, minus the part where they're at work all day. They will most likely spend their time watching TV while drinking and smoking, and my mom will probably wind up getting some sort of part time job doing something she hates, while my dad tinkers around in the garage all day and does nothing to help her out around the house.

I look at them and realize this is going to be me before I know it. I need to pick up the pace here, because I'm slipping into the whole work-TV-sleep-work again schedule and it's very scary. Greg and I decided that we need to start setting more goals for ourselves with the house, because nothing is really getting done, and living in a disorganized house makes me want to do nothing but ignore everything around me and just zone out in front of the TV. And when you don't even have cable, channel surfing is very sad.

I need to get my craft room up and running so I can have a place to work on projects, and just a place to do things like read and write and listen to music that Greg hates. Greg needs to get his office going so he can do things like do whatever it is he does on the computer for hours on end, and listen to music that I hate.

I'm going to skip the "lose weight" resolution, because it comes up every year, and every year I *almost* do it and then gain it all back again. So I've gotten to the point where I know that I'll just do what I can and leave it at that. It almost doesn't even merit a resolution anymore.

I signed up for a drawing class that starts in February, because I've always wanted to be able to draw, but I'm so scared of an empty sheet of paper that I've never even had the guts to try.

I want to read more, which I say every year, but I really want to get into the habit of reading every single day, even if it's one page, just to stay in the habit. It's taken me three months to read Ender's Game and that's a little sad. Again, this is something that I can do once I have a cozy chair in my sunny craft room.

In general, we just need to get out of the house more. We were saying the other day that we've become so negative about everything, and all we do is bitch bitch bitch, and I think it's because we're not doing anything productive or interesting lately, so we have nothing else to talk about. Neither of us are very satisfied with ourselves lately, and I think it's because we've gotten so lazy. We need to get out and meet new people and put our best selves forward so our best selves can get better.