A Brand New Year

It's Been Awhile

Has it really been three months since I last updated this? I guess I’ve been a touch busy. I was able to finish up my last Fall semester in December at Utah State University and am looking forward to graduating (finally) in May of this year! I made it alive through Christmas, even being kept from family on Christmas Eve because of a snow storm, but it was still great! I celebrated my two year anniversary with my husband by going to Park City, and all in all, it was a pretty great end to 2012 and start to 2013.

I’ve been trying to decide what to write about the past few weeks, knowing I’d been slacking on my posts, but nothing has come to my mind. My husband suggested writing about my new goals for the year, so I suppose now is as good as time as any! I don’t like making resolutions because I always seem to break them. I think it’s because I call them ‘resolutions’.  So, instead, I call them goals.

So. My goals for the new year? I’ve only come up with a few, but they’re important to me because they’re things I’ve slacked on the past few years due to being FAR too busy with school and having no time for anything else.

Goal 1

I have made myself a promise that I would read more books. Not only does reading more books help my writing, but it also relaxes me, transports me to a different world, and that is a welcome relief to any with a busy schedule.  I recently read a book by Sarah M. Eden, that being the first book in months that I read that wasn’t a textbook. I was reawakened to my love for it, and I’m determined not to let that go again.

Goal 2

I am going to write more! Yes, I’ve written bits and pieces here and there, but after taking a creative writing course, my steam lessened a bit, mostly because I was being forced to write things I didn’t want to write (see my previous post, Forced!!!) and things that were never good enough for my teachers. Anyway, after that class and semester, I was feeling a little down and out. However, when I finally wrote something for myself during Christmas break, I fell in love with it again. So I promised myself to write more. This is also a good thing, because I’ve been working on a new story! No date for when it’s set to be released, and no sneak peeks or hints, but I can say, it will be a regency romance! I’ve loved all things regency since I was a little girl, and after visiting Bath and the Jane Austen Centre in England this past summer, I was reminded how obsessed I am with the regency time still!

Goal 3

I have a problem with choosing the easier way to do things. So my third goal is to push myself. If I have the choice between writing and watching The Office re-runs thirty times a day, I choose the latter. It’s easier, my brain shuts off, and I don’t have to worry about a thing. This seriously needs to stop. If I have the choice between going outside to get the mail or watching The Office, I choose, again, the latter. THIS seriously needs to stop. Pretty much my third goal needs to simply be ‘stop watching The Office so much’. In all seriousness, I know it will never stop, but I can lessen it. I will lessen it!

Goal 4

This includes lots of little goals that I just need to do to improve myself. They aren’t that fun, so I’ve written them down elsewhere to avoid you seeing too much into my life of faults. :)

Anyway, I hope all of you have had as wonderful a Christmas, New Year, 2012, and start to 2013 as I have! I can’t wait to start writing and reading more, and hope you all find time to do the same!

Happy reading!

Deborah