2010 resolutions

Ah, the new year. A fresh calendar, a clean slate, a new two-digit number to get used to writing on my checks. Traditionally, people make new year's resolutions about eating healthier, exercising more, saving more money and being a better person.

Blah, blah, blah. I make – and break – those resolutions every year.

This year, I’m making different resolutions. Fun, easy resolutions. I want to make up for last year's deficit of books, reading and fun in my life. So, in 2010, I plan to:

Attend my monthly book club meetings. Maybe even read the assigned book.

Read the Lord of the Rings books that I got for Christmas ten years ago and then promptly forgot about.

Read something by a classic author who I've never read before and am embarrassed to admit publicly that I haven't read (Jane Austen, *cough*).

Get involved again with the Florida Bibliophile Society and the Tampa Writers Alliance. Check out other groups that I’ve written about over the years but have never visited personally.

Stop whining about not getting magazines in the mail anymore and renew my subscriptions already.

Carry a book or magazine in my purse so I can sneak in a few minutes of reading here and there. There doesn’t seem to be a way to avoid waiting in lines, so I might as well get some reading in while standing there.

Oh yeah, and actually update this blog instead of just thinking about it.

Here’s to a good 2010!