New Years Resolution?

Do you make any New Year Resolutions? Are they, what magazines would have us think are typical; to lose weight or workout more? Or are they more eccentric (like only wear white after Labor Day, or no chocolate on Thursdays)? Do you have a self imposed moratorium on any resolutions? For the past decade or so, I thought that New Years Resolutions were a little too convenient. How much could something mean to you if picked a day and said, ok, today I will make decisions to change my life? Maybe it was all rebellion from the Lent I gave up meat in college. I'm not sure. But for some reason this year, the coming of the New Year seems like a good time to investigate what I want to do differently. Maybe it's just a coming together of my own personal change schedule and the calendar. Maybe it's backlash after the holidays, and my desire to keep control over my life. But I do wonder if other people make resolutions, what they are, and how you make them stick or give them up. So tell me if you do or don't (either here or on facebook!)

The things I'm thinking about this year are not very traditional in that I'm not into self-improvement per se, but into self contentment. What will make life happier? Make my family happier? Make me a better mother, friend, wife?

1. Top on my list: to make life less complicated, and stop worrying so much about missing something by being less complicated (since I'm responsible for scheduling, who's to blame for over scheduling? and as they say "stop me before I volunteer again!").
2. Do exercise I enjoy first, and then do the stuff I do because I should (that makes #1 skating (2009 will be a great year for Derby Lite, I know it!), #2 yoga ("breathe"), #3 weights (I like feeling strong and my shoulder finally doesn't hurt) and #4 anything else). Don't sweat the anything else, and don't even sweat #1, 2 and 3 when it can't be helped.
3. Enjoy my girls. Probably goes with number 1 and #2 (won't I be less cranky if I skate and do yoga to my heart's content?). I adore them and admire them.
4. Oh, and wear more sparkly shorts (I swear I will post a photo soon, if you can bear it). Skating, I mean. I will NOT be wearing sparkly shorts to Target (for the benefit of all). Sparkly shorts are certainly a "you've come a long way baby" statement for me. And I'm going to keep going, thank you very much.

I would like to say meditate more, or do yoga every day, or get to the gym more than once a week, or be less cranky, or drink less wine. But I feel like I'm trying to get to the root of the why I should do those things more. If life is less complicated, maybe that will come. Maybe all of it will come from that or wearing sparkly shorts more, who knows?. So, I guess those are resolutions, even if they are not very specific. In any case, if I had to predict what 2009 will be like, I would say unpredictable. So maybe my other resolution should be to go with the flow. So there you have it. Non-resolutions, resolutions. Namaste. And Happy New Year.