Think about the new year

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Good morning!  Happy 2012.  2012!!  How crazy.  I know it was inevitable.  I know that January always follows December and that it always brings with it a new year.  But still.  Didn't it creep up?  Didn't you sort of forget it for a while and then all of a sudden BAM! it was right there slapping you in the face.  It did to me.  I intended to make a couple of year end donations to some organizations that mean a lot to me, but I forgot.  I intended to get birthday cards out on time, but I forgot.  I intended to do a lot of things on time, but I forgot.  I described myself the other day (to Dave, who was a bit too fast to agree if you want my opinion) as responsibleish.   Sad but true.  So I am working on a new system for getting more personal things done on time.  I think it is do-able, and I'll let you know in the next progress report.  But that brings me to the first Think about it... post of 2012.  I think there is a lot of truth in this quote.  I know there is for me at least.  Sometimes I get bogged down with thinking about things in terms of all or nothing, perfect or imperfect.  What a waste of time.  Instead of feeling like a complete failure for not always getting birthday cards out on time, I could instead recognize that I managed to get a bunch of them out on time in 2011.  That is better than none!  But instead of recognizing the good, I tend to focus on how it is supposed to be.  Every single thing done on time and with a smile!  A clean house all the time!  A natural ability to do anything I try - like a new sewing project that has me feeling like I am taking a stab in the dark.  In my crazy mind I'm supposed to know how to do anything I try.  I'm supposed to have dishes with no chips and a refrigerator that never gets dirty or has uneaten leftovers in it!  A flat stomach!  Cartoon birds on my shoulders when I dance around my laundry room!  Yeah, crazytown.  This is not how it is supposed to be.  I need new pictures in my head.  Starting now.   I hope you had a great weekend and are ringing in the new year with hope and gratitude and no messed up ideas of how this year is supposed to be.