Julie's Boggle

Here we stand at the dawn of a new year: the first day of the first working week of 2009.  Or rather, the last day of the first week, because the rest of the week just, er, disappeared while I wasn’t looking.

I don’t personally buy into the whole New-Year’s-resolution-culture, but it does seem as good a time as any to put a peg in the ground and start anew with the good intentions that ran aground in the old year.

From that perspective, 2009 is full of promise, and I’m trying hard to set myself some personal goals to help with keeping life on track, rather than just flitting about aimlessly, lost in a mire of different projects.  Which does happen all too easily.

To start with, I’m going with “making more of each day”.  To enjoy time with Jonathan — taking time to interact properly with him — and to be more efficient at getting things done around the home.  I’m also aiming to be more focussed (and ideally less perfectionist) in my writing so that I can get more out in less time, hopefully without sacrificing too much in the way of quality.  I’m going to try to blog more frequently too.

As part of being more efficient on the domestic side, I’m trying out “meal-planning”.  Woo-hoo! A concept that had always seemed rather daunting when life was piling up around me, but having taken stock of it all over the holidays, I’m now determined to persevere with it for at least a few months.

The incentive for the meal planning is getting to try out lots of new recipes.  (A pleasant couple of hours was spent going through all my recipe books and making a list of the ones that looked worthwhile.)  My goal last year, to try one new recipe every week, worked out well for the most part, but I’m hoping that forward planning will put the process on rails!

Lastly, as a very positive start to the new year, we FINALLY made the break with Pipex (our ISP of many complaints) after another couple of weeks without service at the end of 2008.  Our new ISP is KeConnect who Tom specially picked for their customer service reputation, so we’re looking forward to a good year of broadband connections! :party:

Happy 2009, all!