To An Audience Of One...

Happiest of New Year's,

although I am a bit late in saying that~

I woke up this morning thinking of a blog post for the day, and realized it has been awhile!

Our dear Kylie, from Australia,

left two weeks ago.

And our family is feeling the hole that she left-

Wait.

I didn't even post anything about her arriving,

or even her visit yet,

and I am already telling you she went home!

Awful, I know,

but it was so busy with her here,

and Christmas,

and everything.

The thing I could neglect for awhile was the blog--

and obviously,

I did.

But I will post all about her trip here to the United States soon-

it was pretty wonderful.

That, and I promised her I would post every little morsel about it!

But before I do,

I thought I would kick off the New Year
(or more specifically: the month after the New Year-)
with my resolutions.

I actually only recently made a few.

Kylie asked me if I was going to make one this year,

and on New Years, I responded, "Nope. I don't stick to them, so why bother."

I had a change of heart, though.

They don't involve losing weight--

(~that is always a frustration,

and a New Year's Resolution,

just makes it more of one-)

Instead, I decided to make two resolutions.
One is a little more 'do-able',

and one is just for fun.

Resolution Number One:

I plan to read through the New Testament this year.

Which should be easy; it is much shorter than the Old Testament.

I may even read it a few times through-

To be honest, I have tried to read though the entire Bible in a year, but I seem to get stuck somewhere in the Old Testament, and never seem to make it to the New, unless I am reading a few specific verses at a time.

So I have already started,

and I started in First Corinthians.

(I have read the Gospels, Acts, and Romans before many times, but I have never read Paul's Epistles all the way through-a good place to begin, I think-.)

This is the verse that I have been thinking about as I have started reading so far:

1st Corinthians 4: 12-13a:

"We work hard with our own hands.

When we are cursed,

we bless;

when we are persecuted,

we endure it;

when we are slandered,

we answer kindly." 

I like when something jumps out at me that I have never seen before, and that was it. Now, to put this in to practice~

My next resolution is a bit more "fluffier"-

Instead of blogging over Christmas break,

I spent time with Kylie and my family,

AND, I cleaned my closet.

(I read Rachel Zoe's Book: Style A to Zoe, and this was my closet motivator-)

I donated a bunch of stuff-

and organized everything by color.

Pants, shoes

shirts, dresses, sweaters, handbags! -everything.

So now I can actually find something in my closet to wear to work.

I even found great jeans I bought last year that needed to be hemmed,

and took them in and had them tailored.

My resolution is to wear something different everyday to work.

I usually have a few favorites that I keep wearing,

over, and over, and over...

when I have tons of things to choose from but couldn't find jammed in my messy closet!

So,  my Second New Year Resolution is:
 To wear something different every day.

Fluffy resolution,

I know. 

But it is 'do-able', too.

And so, those are my goals this year...

Those,
and to lose weight, of course...

Happiest of New Year's~
to my audience of one, I suppose,
after such a long blog break!

(...who needed a blog break, but when I woke up this morning talking to myself inside my head again, realized my blog break was officially over...)