HAPPY NEW YEAR!

in about 5 hours, it will be just another day...but new years is never a bad reason to rethink who you are and what you do and why you do it. so here are my 2008 reflections going into 2009 (not resolutions as much)...varying from very shallow things to waist deep at most.

1. comb my hair - i've probably combed my hair all of 4 times in the last 7 years. i don't own a brush. my hair is just naturally stick straight...why make it more straight? well, for kicks and giggles i used my mom's brush and combed my hair a few days ago. it made a slight difference. i guess you'll have to look really hard to see if i'm keeping up with this resolution. sometimes i don't have time to comb my hair...i'm a busy girl.

2. go to the gym 4 times. that's right, setting the bar any higher would just be stupid for me. kendra let me borrow her gym membership that she's been generously donating to for the last 3 years. she's letting me use it temporarily, thinking i might find a better use out of it. (haha) so, i will force myself to go 4 times. if i can do it, great. if not, then she's still a very charitable person to this particular gym.

3. be a better friend | sister | aunt | - in my 'younger years', it was always about the quantity of friends...and then you had so many friends that you didn't have time for anyone. i would like to cultivate the existing friendships i already have. i wanna create my own satc group. i want to pay attention to people, instead of breezing by them or popping in here and there.

4. figure out my life - i like to be creative and fortunately, i have a business that allows me to use a medium to express all the stuff that whirls in my mind. sometimes i wonder, will all i ever do is flowers? am i maximizing my potential? fleuretica has come into it's 5th year, for which i'm truly grateful. but i'd like to see if there's more for fleuretica and if there's more for me.

5. be me - my life and all of it's activities revolve around my business. my "fun" activities involve going to places for networking, cardmaking is for my clients, even the books/magazines i read are related to fleuretica. in my down time, i'm doodling or making lists of things that i gotta do. don't get me wrong, i love it all! my sister pointed out to me that my blog is so much about food...(which i love too) but it's just that i don't have time to enjoy anything else BUT food. so food has to be interesting! i must make time to find an interesting activity FOR me, completely unrelated to fleuretica. any suggestions? and don't say paintballing! or the gym!

And so now i've put myself out there, currently feeling very vulnerable. that's also why i blog about food! anyway, happy new year! don't judge!