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I can't believe it's been a year...

Since I haven't blogged in nearly a month and this is my first entry of the new year, I think I must address my first of several resolutions for the new year - blog more often. I did make this same resolution last year and failed. In 2010, I blogged 74 times. In 2011, after committing to writing more, I only wrote in my blog 67 times (slaps wrist). So, once again, I'm going to try and do better in 2012.

Last year I decided to do the 365 photo challenge, posting one picture everyday for the entire year. I failed at this, too. I can totally see why people don't set resolutions because they are HARD to keep. That being said, I'm a goal oriented person and I like pushing myself to strive to do better, even if I fail. I guess I look at it like it's better than not pushing yourself at all, right? And it's not like I intentionally fail.

Anyway, I actually kept up with that photo blog for 10.5 months! While it's very frustrating that I made it that far only to fail, it makes me want to achieve the challenge even more this year. Are you interested in following along? If so, click here. So far so good. Three days into the new year and I have a picture for all three of those days. Go me!

To further review last year's resolutions (why did I make so many?!?!):
  • WIN: I wanted to continue counting calories and I succeeded. I plan to continue into 2012. 
  • FAIL: Workout three times a week. Nope. Didn't even come close. Did start running jogging and plan to continue that into the new year, too. I just went tonight, as a matter of fact (and then came home and ate chocolate covered peanuts and starbursts, thus defeating the purpose of my workout.
  • FAIL: Read more books. I read a few, but no more than usual. I will try to do better in 2012, but this iPhone of mine does not help. Instead of reading at night, I spend all of my time doing nonsense on it. 
  • WIN: Continue making one new recipe a week. I did a pretty good job of keeping up with this, but I did NOT do a good job of sharing the recipes on my blog. 
  • FAIL: Include a quote with each blog entry. I actually forgot I even made this resolution until I went back and reviewed them. Seems like a silly resolution anyway. :)
  • The last resolution I made was to worry less and live more. I was faced with a very difficult year to achieve this goal (more on that later), but I actually feel as if I did pretty well with this. Do I still worry? Absolutely. Am I still working on it? You bet. But I feel like I made progress. 
Did you keep any of your resolutions from last year? Did you make any new ones this year? I will end on this funny ecard I found about resolutions. It made me chuckle and hopefully it will you, too.  
someecards.com - I can't believe it's been a year since I didn't become a better person.

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