Here we go again...

 I spent NYE babysitting at Amber's while they went out. Was mostly nodding off when fireworks went off outside. I stirred, checked to make sure the babies weren't waking up, thought to myself, 'Must be midnight. Happy New Year.' and shifted my position on the couch to go back to sleep. In previous years I would spend four or six hours in a chat room ushering in the different time zones. Couldn't do that this year but thought of my friends in that particular venue and wished them well.

Another year and the majority of us are still upright, mobile and conscious, healthy as we can be and another year older.
Well I call that a good year wouldn't you?
Been through a lot in the last two years, met a major life changing event, passed it, survived it and am moving on.
It's all about how you survive as well as what you survived. I am now coming to terms with the label 'survivor' that I am now being given. I have some issues with it.
You survive a major accident or calamity. I was diagnosed with a disease, it was removed, treated and I'm done. It doesn't seem like the same sort of situation.
I had a mammogram on the other side and it came out clean. We'll see what happens in another year.
People make resolutions at the beginning of a new year and I am now going to try my hand at one. I lost a lot of weight during all my treatments and surgeries and felt better for it, gained it all back once everything was done and was told I could go back to my 'normal' eating habits. Dumb move.
Thanks to generous friends and family we went grocery shopping and got fresh veggies, with options for more healthy foods. Katie and I are both going to watch what we eat and cut down on the fat, sugar and (for me) sodas. That is what the kicker for me was, two or three Cokes a day with all that sugar. Down to one a day now and will keep it that way for a while longer and then cut it out and replacing all my liquids with water and orange juice.
I cooked a ham and scalloped potatoes last night and will be having ham sandwiches on rye bread
Did I just say something about cutting out fat?
The only other resolutions I could possibly come up with is try to be more proactive about selling my jewelry and ornaments, and get my story proposal off to an agent/editor. That's something else that my roommie and I are going to be working on together is getting our respective books closer to editor ready stage.
If anyone wants to be a first draft editor for me, let me know and I'll send it to you in a pdf. It's not War and Peace but anyone who has read it has liked what I wrote so...

I've got ideas for more netted ornaments that need to be set up, I had to disassemble two and remade one, the other is in an assortment of bags and started on. Another one that will be stunning when I finish it is waiting for more beads that I bought at a small bead shop that is open irregularly.
So this is also going to be a year of finishing projects and getting them up for public viewing. I've never been one to be in the limelight, I'm gregarious and now don't mind getting up in front of people to speak but making the effort to be a presence is something else.

I think I've come to the limit of reading time for most of you. Hope to be more newsworthy in a good way this year.

"Silly things do cease to be silly when they are done by sensible people in an impudent way." - Jane Austen "Emma"