New Year’s Eve
By LMReviews on Dec 31, 2008 in Multicultural Events, Multicultural History
I loved this pic Matti Á. took and posted on Flickr. There lots of other pics to choose from but this one made me think of New Years Eve in Anytown, Anywhere–Especially in Mytown, USA.
As we line up at the golden gate of a new year, it reminds me of why New Years is one of my favorite holidays. It is a time that I reflect where I have been in the last year and where I hope to go. I always take a moment to respect all that went wrong and what I can learn from it and I take a moment to revel in all that went right and how to learn from that as well.
Yes I usually make resolutions each New Years and by the time December rolls around I have no memory of what they were or whether I’ve achieved them. I wish I could say this year 2008 was different was not. All the major changes I made happened along the way. In 2008, I definitely took some steps and some leaps to ensure that 2009 would be a very different year. The previous years have been a great mixture of good, bad and great. (Nothing is all good or all bad). But 2009 promises to resemble nothing that came before it.
I now have a blog with a growing community I love contributing to. I’m building a freelance reputation that is brewing much better than I could have expected. And hopefully, early 2009 will bless me with a permanent employment arrangement that compliments all that I am trying to do instead of being in conflict with it.
This time of year brings everyone to a point of reflection and that’s where I found myself last night. Where are we going and what would we like to do when we get there?
Reflect on it and if you’d like to share with a post to this blog entry, I would love to read your responses.
Cheers to a happy new year where work, determination, prayer, and a little pixie dust will bring us that much closer to all we desire!
Every Year since I can remember I’ve made only 1 resolution and that’s not to make any. This year I’m changing that. This year I resolve to finish reediting my vampire novel and finish Book 2 of the Jackwill chronicles (SENTI was book 1). This will make my editor very happy. I also resolve to finish at least 1 more of the 6 book I’ve started. I resolve to do more to promote SENTI.
I resolve to make my new side business venture successful, meaning it’ll bring in at least $6oo a month extra income.
Most important, I resolve to be a better husband. I’ll make time to take my wife out to do something special at least once or twice a month. I will spend as much time on my wife as I spend on writing & the business I own. I will be more thoughtful of her needs and help more around the house. I WILL SHOW (not tell her), with my actions, that I love her. After 14 years together we husbands tend to slack off on some things and forget that wives tend think that when we say “I love you”, it’s just lip service. Some times the wife is right and sometimes we husbands need to step up and show her that “I love you” is more than an automatic response. The husband needs to make the wife believe that the next 14 years will be better, more exciting than the first 14, and that she is still as desirable as when we were dating. I believe that a woman needs to be romanced every now and then and reminded that she is still a woman, not just your wife.
I plan on having a happy new year, both in busines and in family
G W Pickle