I started this year not with a laundry list of New Year's Resolutions, but with a one-word New Year's motto instead. I hoped the motto I chose--Enjoy--would guide me through the year and shape my experiences. It did.
So what did I enjoy in 2012?
So what did I enjoy in 2012?
- I enjoyed watching a sick friend come back to life.
- I enjoyed visiting family and friends back East.
- I enjoyed getting letters and e-mails from far-away friends.
- I enjoyed lunches and dinners with local friends.
- I enjoyed reconnecting with long-lost friends in upstate New York and Colorado.
- I enjoyed having a short story published for the first time.
- I enjoyed finishing fifth in Writer's Digest's annual short story competition.
- I enjoyed starting a new short story for next year's Writer's Digest competition.
- I enjoyed watching my savings account grow (especially after watching it shrink over the previous two years.)
- I enjoyed discussing writing and life with my fellow Scribblers.
- I enjoyed the comraderie of the Schaumburg Scribes.
- I enjoyed attending A Weekend with Your Novel at UW Madison.
- I enjoyed working on revisions of my novel.
- I enjoyed taking up swimming again.
- I enjoyed walking outside in the crisp air of fall and winter.
- I enjoyed reading novels by two of my fellow writer's group members.
- I enjoyed sleeping in my brand new bed.
- I enjoyed shopping for linens for my brand new bed.
- I enjoyed reading a friend's art-inspired chapbook.
- I enjoyed learning how to crochet.
- I enjoyed seeing President Obama re-elected.
- I enjoyed discovering new books and authors through Goodreads and Twitter.
- I enjoyed being on Twitter--because they make me feel like I'm not working alone in a dark corner of my basement, when I really am working alone in a dark corner of my basement.
- I enjoyed going downtown to see "Sweet Bird of Youth."
- I enjoyed working on a new quilt.
- I enjoyed seeing "Les Miserables" on the big screen.
- I enjoyed fitting into some of my smaller-sized clothes.
- I enjoyed not having the pressure of New Year's resolutions to meet. : )