New Year Resolutions — THAT PRETTY RUNNER

Finger’s crossed my resolutions work out this year. It is fun to make the list! What are your New Year Resolutions?!

My New Year Resolutions

Do NOT slip on water and wipe out; no head over heels incidents this year!

Take more pictures, especially for the blog.

Interview more athletes for the blog and personal pleasure.

Go on a date and have fun.

Become smarter working towards my doctorate, and more businessy finishing my business courses.

Run a marathon in the amount of time that I want to finish my race.

Have a St. Jude fundraiser, involving running a marathon or two. My aunts are very generous with any charity I point to, especially if I run twenty six miles well for it, so I know my fundraisers will be fruitful. At the very least, I’m grateful for that luxury. If all goes well, I am also contributing to planning a golf tournament fundraising event for St. Jude this year. My boss even started donating to this charity, over another because I made the suggestion, running for them all these years consistently. I make it happen, do my best with those fundraisers. As an elite athlete, it is a big deal to run for charity, it’s nice me to run fast for charity, and incline other’s to pick the one that I run for to donate money to.

Have an A, B, and C plan, but all of them are wonderful so no one would ever know which happened. ;)

Sew my own purse, with a nice fabric, maybe with birds.

Hike Acadia, a weekend separate from a marathon, watch the sunset.

Swim in a lake, in a mountain, skinny dipping.

Make a gingerbread house, in pink, for Valentine’s Day.

Have a special volunteer project every month.

Use my glass water bottle instead of a bunch of plastic water bottles.

Play my violin, and feel pleased or accomplished with selected solos.

Never think about what happened to me in Kodiak ever again, or anyone out there ever for any reason; there will be zero Alaska.

Only speak to the pleasant directly.

Go to Bald Head Island and not Oak Island, visiting my cool aunt who keeps me out of trouble, and buys me dinner and water and cupcakes from time to time; because she can give all that luxury, aren’t I luck? Or I could elope on that island and not invite her and my uncle, that would be a funny one. Be next door, and not tell them anything.

Buy a new bikini and beach towel.

Be a 4.0

Color one picture a week in my adult coloring book.

Have a pillar candle lit in my room, next to my decorative flowers everyday.

Wear sunblock.

Dance.

Improve my faith and spirituality, finding ways to glorify god.

Think about kissing, kissing a lot.

Love and be loved.

Love to love, and love to be loved.

Love.

Romance.

Intimacy.

Hold hands.

Smile.

Hug and be hugged.

Watch the sunset.

Hike, together.

Swim, together.

Snowshoe, together.

Relax, together.

Celebrate, together.

Be together, all the time.

Dance, together.

Laugh, together.

Cry, together.

Feel emotion, together.

Be accountable.

Be silly.

Be serious.

Be powerful.

Be in love.

Be sincere.

Be allowed to be together forever.

Say we are together, with a label.

Say ‘I love you, I love you, I love you!’

whisper ‘Je t’adore, mon cher.’

Never feel heartbreak.

Never feel torture.

Feel gratitude.

Feel love.

Feel lust.

Feel joy.

Feel bliss.

Feel the true meaning of happiness.

Feel compassion.

Feel sweetness.

Feel empathy.

Feel peace.

Feel handholding.

Feel divinity.

Bake everything.

Eat, red velvet cupcakes.

Cook every meal, homemade.

Listen to loud music, whilst swimming.

Light candles.

Walk the sand barefoot, for the pastel sunset during high tide.

Walk a moonlight path along the shoreline, go skinny dipping into the full moon’s trail.

Walk from the highest peaks, down to the ocean for sunrise.

Propose on your knees, in the sand, with a miniature sand dollar found by chance.

Warm bathrobes.

Tie the tie, and untie the tie.

Knit the hat.

Crochet the hat.

Blankets, and movies.

Pick flowers, and grow flowers.

Have secrets, only with each other.

Ride bikes around our favorite monastery’s trails.

Calm, cool, collected dialect and articulation.

Make lunch, and enjoy whilst looking into each other’s eyes and not our phones.

Share watches, running and checking the time.

Go to church, or watch mass every week, especially during lent.

Never let someone make me feel less of a person.

Have willpower.

Write down three things that I am grateful for every day.

Cook a new recipe every weekend, send pictures to my sisters.

Update my vision board at least every two weeks, with more pictures and inspirational quotes.

Walk my dogs longer distances.