To The Points

Since it is now 2010, you can expect that I’ll make about a million bad jokes 2010 being the “Year We ____.” Those of you who are too young, or not nerdy enough, to know what I’m talking about just go visit Wikipedia. I’m not even going to link to it for you I’m just going to let you do it yourself.

The holidays are over, New Years is over….I’m actually looking forward to the next few weeks, as I can just get my own schedule back.  With a baby, just a few derivations from the norm can wreck havoc on a schedule – holidays are like one huge bomb in the schedule.  When I was younger, I used to say pretentious things like “I only make schedules so I can deviate from them,” but in all honestly, I love them now. (I do still like playing hooky, but its no fun when your life is all hooky, no schedule).

Anyway, I’m not really a resolution type person, but I was inspired by the post over at Craft Leftovers, and scrawled down three thing that I’ve been working on recently anyway in an attempt to give 2010 some direction. (2010: The Year We Figure Out How to Use a Map). Later that evening, Jason and I both mentioned that we wrote up some “resolutions” and shared them – and they were very similiar.  I figured I’d share them here, just to give a sense of what direction I’m going in this year.

• Less Digital, More Analog: This may seem wacky coming from someone who makes her living doing digital marketing, and who has several blogs and various social media profiles, but I have a very definite reason for this.  I consume a lot of digital media – I especially read a lot of blogs, websites and listen to a lot of podcasts.  I’ve found in the past six months or so, that I read a lot of blogs at the detriment to my own creative endeavors.  (I’ve also seen that I use reading blogs as a convenient substitute for actually being productive on a given day – I have the idea that I will read things that are inspiring and interesting, but in reality I tend to waste my time reading about Hollywood gossip).  I want to consume less “fluff” and put more into my digital endeavors.  That requires me to be a bit more analog – more time reading, creating and writing offline to help me put more in online.

• Body Awareness: I’ve had “lose weight” on my list since the Bean was born (and, ok, before), but instead of focusing just on losing weight, I want to make sure I’m listening to what I need – sleep, exercise, fresh air, food, etc – and do those things.  I also want to make sure I’m making good food for the family, and encouraging us, as a group, to move.

• Use what I have: I have this tendency when I’m either working on something, or stuck on something, or avoiding doing something, to think of what I don’t have, vs. what I do have. For example, I look up patterns to make out of my stash and find myself at Webs with $100 of yarn in my cart.  I (almost) took it to the extreme this summer when I was super close to buying a new spinning wheel.  I picked it out, I literally almost made the purchase, and then Jason asked me to wait. And so I did.  I looked back on it and realized I wasn’t using my current wheel at all – I was so focused on getting this new wheel.  Problem is, I don’t really know what the Kiwi can do.  This has inspired me to start a new series here focusing on my Kiwi, and what I do with it. My goal is to understand the wheel – technically – backwards and forwards, this year.  I also what to use what I have in my crafty endeavors.  It doesn’t mean I won’t buy anything for my creative projects, but I will try to use what I’ve got.

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