I've Been A Bad Blogger

It seems that in the last week, I have broken one of my new year's resolutions already, I have fallen off the blogging bandwagon. My own blogging bandwagon. Working 12 hour days for the man will do that to you though, so I hope that this doesn't really count as breaking the reso. Consider it, a temporary hiatus from the ability to blog....yes, that's it!

Anywho, I've been meaning to post them for about a month, but I did want to put my New Year's Resolutions in writing, not only to share with the world, but also in hopes that seeing them out in cyber space would mean I have to stick to them. My resolutions, and progress as of February are as follows.

- Read 52 books: On average, this would be one book a week. However, I am an exceptionally fast reader and so there may be a week where I can finish two books. So far, in 2006, I have read 2 1/2 books- A Million Little Pieces, Memoirs of a Geisha and half of Sense and Sensibility. On deck, Case Histories and Night. I think I am on track on this one and I put this reso in the "on track" pile. Last year, Stephen King read 80 books. I wanted to pare this down to a more manageable level.

- Write for 15 minutes every day: If work counts, then yes, I have accomplished this thus far. If it counts solely toward creative writing, then I broke this on January 2. I put this on the "get off your ass and get cracking" pile.

Learn Italian: Unfortunately, I have not yet opened the beautiful book and DVD set my sister got me. That doesn't mean I won't..but I now only have 10 months to get to an intermediate level of the language. This goes in the "you have aspired too high" pile.

Call My Friends/Family More Often: I started off well with this...the last few weeks have been tough b/c of work. This is also in the "get off your ass and get cracking" pile.

And finally, "Don't worry about things out of your control:" Haha FAILED. To possibly keep this resolution I need a complete personality overhaul. I'll put that on the list for 2007 along with the perennial favorites of go to the gym more often, worry less, laugh more and yada yada yada.