New Beginnings
I love the New Year. I love a blank journal and new calendar. I love the idea of a fresh start. So many opportunities lie ahead. So much possibility.
I started to write a totally different post yesterday, but sometimes you start writing and just end up with something else. I usually just go with it.
I meant to tell you that we’d had a very difficult December, behavior-wise, so this New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day were delightful. We built Legos, made Shrinky Dinks, watched Star Trek TNG and ate cherry-almond eggnog bread. We ate our traditional New Year’s Day leftovers for dinner (I just made that up) and watched the Rose Parade. Not at the same time, of course. The Rose Parade has been a part of my New Year’s Days ever since I can remember. We’d watch it live and without interruption on KTLA. Channel 5, if I remember correctly. Now we watch it on HGTV, live, no commercials. Its the only way to go.
I’ve got a couple of changes in mind for this year. We’re going to move some furniture around and do a little more decorating. We’ve got to get our deck fixed and the house painted, too. Personally, I’d like to get back to blogging more. And look, I’ve already been at it two days in a row! And I’d like to learn to take better pictures.
A couple of years ago in the knitting blog world, there was a project called the ABC Along. The point was to work your way through the alphabet in pictures. Every two weeks a different letter was assigned and you took a picture to correspond with that letter. I’ve poked around and it doesn’t look like they are doing it this year. I don’t want to just steal the name ABC Along, but I’m stealing, er, borrowing the idea. Maybe I’ll come up with a different name. But in any case, I’ll be posting my pictures to my blog. So I’ll be working on my photography AND posting regularly. Yay, me!
If you’d like to join me in photographing the alphabet, please do! I’m going to post a schedule, mostly to keep myself on track, but it’ll be a guideline for anyone who wants to play along. If I get enough interest, I’ll think up a new name for the alphabet project (ooo, that’s a good name!) and make a little button.