Having taken months to
actually set up this blog, it seems apt that I finally got it up and running on
1st September. I’ve never lost the feeling that September is
‘back-to-school’ month; a time for fresh starts, general optimism and a
‘can-do’ attitude. I remember approaching each new school year with the idea
that it would be my best year ever. I would be organized, I would work hard at
all my subjects (even maths), I would get up in time for breakfast in the
morning, and I would stop avoiding P.E.
Of course, these resolutions usually lasted around a month and by
October normal service had been resumed: my dad was doing my maths homework
(thanks dad!), breakfast was a slice of toast hastily eaten as I legged it to
the bus, and I was happily forging my dad’s signature on a series of
increasingly inventive excuse notes (Dear Mrs. McIvor, Please excuse Lauren
from today’s P.E. lesson. She has bubonic plague but should be fully recovered
in time for her music lesson later in the afternoon).
Fast forward several
(let’s not think about just how many years it’s been since I left school!)
years and I’m using September rather than January to make some (Not So) New Year
Resolutions. This year, I’m even
writing them down:
-I will complete
NaNoWriMo* this year
-I will actually
polish up whatever I finish for NaNo and maybe even let some people read it
-I will have a better
work/life balance (currently I’m tending towards the workaholic end of the
spectrum)
-I will finally learn
how to do a shoulder stand in yoga
*That’s National Novel
Writing Month. This November I’ll be trying to write a novel (50,000 words is
the minimum I’m aiming for) in 30 days.
So there you have it,
my grown-up ‘back-to-school’ resolutions. Will I stick to them? Ask me again in
October!
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