New Year

It's that time of the year when the internet is absolutely flooded with new blog posts about resolutions and holidays and snow and school and work and dieting and everything. I'd bet a million new blogs were started today. But you, gentle reader, are reading this particular blog because A) you are my mom or B) you too, are a pantser, whether that only relates to writing or also life in general. I am notoriously bad at resolutions. Possibly because I am not a planner in general. But this year I do have some generic goals in mind.

1) Write more. Write consistently. As of day 7 of 365 in 2014, I have written a big fat total of 0 words. Well, obviously I've written some words, just not any fictional words. Today this changes.

2) Get healthier. I'm applying this to both body and mind. I'm running (ha! more like walking/slow jogging/hopefully-not-crawling) my first official race. It is only a 5k, so nothing to write home about. And it is in DISNEY-freaking-LAND, which is the only reason I am "running" it. As for the mind part, I want to have healthier thoughts about myself and people around me. I don't know about you, but I am CONSTANTLY comparing myself to other girls and the way they look. It is not good, not right, not healthy. It must stop.

3) Do things that scare me. This may include: going back to school, quitting the job at the bookstore, asking a guy on a date, hunting for a new apartment, running a race (*spoiler* it definitely includes running a race) etc. I am in a major time rut.

And with those goals in mind, gentle reader, I am going to head out into the world and get some writing down. I'll see you in a few. Brittney Belle