1. Spend less time on the computer and more time with my family.

2. Spend more time reading my Bible.

3. Spend more time writing.

4. Finish at least one of the novels I have drifting around.

5. Have a long, heart-to-heart talk to my mom about things I should have talked to her about a long time ago.

6. Get a job.

7. Meet up with at least one of my online friends, either again or for the first time.

8. Pay off the money I owe my mom.

And one other resolution would be to graduate high school, but currently that's up in the air as my mom is considering taking a different course of action.

It's a lot of resolutions, but maybe it'll help me knock myself into reality.

2. Read more. I have recently been given a lot of crime novels by a dear friend whose husband passed away. So I plan to start working though those. and try to read some every night before I go to sleep.

5. Continue growing my hair! It drives me mad sometimes (it feels like it's still somewhat in-between lengths), but I'm hoping to grow it Long again! I will not give into the awful temptation to have done with it, and cut it all off again.

3. Write more. I work two part time jobs now, and I don't have as much time to write as I'd like to. But I plan to try to set aside at least an hour a day, even if I don't feel like it after work, to write. It won't matter how much I actually get to write in that hour as long as I'm setting my mind to it and trying to write. I'll be making some progress at least.

2: Spend a little less time writing so I can focus on getting other work done.

I haven't made a New Year resolution in several years, actually. I stopped because I knew I would never keep them, and I might as well not take the effort to make them, but also because I switched to a different 'tradition'. The idea was this - rather than make resolutions, I would ask God to make that year a year of learning. And that I would be willing to learn whatever He would teach me. I've done it for the past three years, and I can honestly say those are the first three years I've done anything more than stagnate in my faith. So that's my New Year thing.

My writing related resolutions are

1. Finish the first draft of 'Catcher of the Redandblue', the book I'm writing just now.

2. Make twelve submissions for publication.

* thoughtful * I think I did something rather like this last year.... It's a good thing. I think Fledge was right when he said 'I have a feeling he likes to be asked', or something of the sort. You know, about Aslan. Sometimes we just need to ask him, really ask him, to teach us... and if we are willing, he will.