Has the new year started?

I kinda feel it in the air, or perhaps my bones. As I sit typing while watching BBC America’s Whoathon, I realize I have started on the ever growing, endlessly nagging, internal list of things ‘I need to do for my own good’, or ’have always wanted to do’, and the ever popular ’damn it all, I will accomplish this before I die’. What have I begun? Well. I’ve started walking as frequently as the weather permits. And yoga. Minding what I eat. That sort of thing. And apparently, resuming my blog – which falls in the category of ’have always wanted to do’. So yay!

It occurs to me I haven’t been here for many a month. All I can say is oh my has a lot happened and yet absolutely nothing has. If that makes any sense at all. So while I sort that out, here’s my very best, very favorite happening:

My new friend, Bella, joined the household this past September. She is quite beautiful and smart, and standard dachshund stubborn. She has my heart.

To recap….. and to return to my actual topic, (before Miss Bella distracted me), I seem to have started on improving my diet and health without – well – telling myself first. Upon reflection, I think this is really quite good. No need for resolutions, oaths, and subsequent disappointments which is invariably accompanied with self recrimination. Hmmm. Works for me. I think this next year is already off to a better start than last year. I think. One step at a time etc.

Until next time!

Another Day

Another Day. Not really a novel title when beginning a new – well – anything- I suppose; but there you have it.

Today I officially launch my new blog. I’ve been blogging on and off for a while now, although truth be told, it has mostly been ‘off ‘ rather than ‘on’. I think it is because my prior blogs were launched with a very specific purpose – to promote my online shop(s). All well and good admittedly, but I would inevitably end up flailing about trying to find a fresh take on the very same topic. The blogs would last for a bit and then just wither due to everyone’s, (myself included), general lack of interest.

Sometime after that, I decided to redesign the last promotional blog into an actual website that sold my designs and an included blog area, snazzy designs, optional layouts, e-commerce etal. I attempted to launch this concept during my short lived, but much loved, one-woman-operation brick and mortar shop. Yeah. Not one of my more realistic ideas.

After abandoning my attempt at building my own site, I reduced the remains to just the blog. It worked until it didn’t. I deleted the site. A wonderful feeling letting go of the past, but on the other hand, I missed having a blog. The truth is, I just like to write. and Read. and be a part (albeit a very small part) of this great community.