This is a test....

Hi there. Remember me? It's been, oh, say....three years or so. I recently came to the conclusion that I am going to blog.  I am going to try to be intentional with it...as in, use it as I contemplated in my post of many years ago...as a measuring stick. A reference point. Each post on the continuum of before and after. I know I have only one reader (hi S.S.).  Sorry if this is boring. :)

Initially my plan was to restart this on January 1st. However I will probably be out and about on that day, hopefully hiking in the mountains somewhere, so I figured I would start now. Today. Christmas Eve.

One of my goals with this is to use it as an ongoing checklist of things I need/want/hope to do. I found 2010 to be somewhat of a dud, though I am blaming no one but myself. I took the year off, so to speak. I floated through it without much thought. Because of that, there is little I feel I have done to improve myself, and that is a constant I don't want to be without.

So, let's start off at the beginning. These are some of my goals for the new year, in no particular order or degree of importance.

2011. I am going to tackle you.

- Start a blog
- Try something new every week
- Send in one job application a week
- learn Spanish (with the aid of an, ahem, gifted copy of Rosetta Stone)
- Volunteer as a conversation partner at the library downtown (will help with the Spanish as well)
- Rejoin the Columbia art center so I can make pottery again
- Paint bedroom #2 and hallway

There will be plenty more as time goes by. And I will devote certain posts to expand on the theme. I just wanted to get something down on paper. This is just a start. Baby steps, ya know?