resolutions 13 and 14

i'm gonna be honest, cuz let's face it, honesty is the best policy...usually. this is getting difficult. the resolutions aren't popping into my head as easily as they were at the beginning. i guess that means i either need to buck up and choose some challenges that are even more difficult to commit to, or i need to get more creative...what a novel idea!

seeing as how my creativity has all but left me for good, i guess it's time to practice and get those creative juices flowing again. a few years ago, i started 2 different scrapbooks when my mom bought me loads of creative memory stuff. one of them is a "sisters" book of, you guessed it, my sister and i and our youthful and more recent experiences together. i have pictures out the waazoo just waiting to be organized into a masterpiece.

13. i resolve to get my sisters scrapbook up to date...i'm glad i have all year! (i don't know how i ended up with a resolution that is super difficult to keep AND requires creativity)

now it's time for the 14th resolution to materialize into being just as effortlessly as the 13th did. as you can see from the timestamp on this post, today is my "after 9:30" weeknight for the week. i just got home recently from jana's, where we watched "one night with the king," a film about esther. both this movie and one of the previews before it happened to be based on books i had read. and i can feel the 14th resolution sneaking up on me, even as i look at my nightstand filled with unread books...

14. i resolve to read 12 books this year, 6 fiction, and 6 of the many "inspirational" books that i have had on my list for a while now.

the first book i will read, as soon as i buy a copy of my own, will be "abba's child" by brennan manning. i started reading a friend's copy a few months back, and i stopped for 2 main reasons: 1) it made me face myself and i was chicken, and 2) i really wanted to write in the margins as opposed to scribbling notes on whatever paper i had lying around. from what i have read and from what my friends tell me, it is an excellent book and i look forward to finishing it.

rereading this post, i find the last line of the opening slightly ironic! :) i hope you enjoy the irony too, or at least can smirk at my enjoyment of it.