Here's to a New Year!!

Hello all!! My little Chewy and Me Wishing
You a Happy 2014!!!

Isn't it funny how we who blog start off by saying we're going to blog as much as possible - some say every week, others are not so quick to state a quantity.  I started mine in late 2012, so it's been a year since I initiated this blog.  There were times that I blogged every week, other times, it was maybe once a month.  Mostly I blogged due to something that intrigued me, something I was going through, or just wanted to bloviate.  Well, it's been almost six months since my last blog.

It's not a bad thing to hope that we will be diligent at something like a maintaining a blog spot, nor is it bad to let it go for a while.  There are so many reasons why we do let them linger with no new posts.  I can state unequivocally that I've been out of town on several occasions - all for work.  I've been to 10 states I've never visited, and others that I enjoy on several other occasions.  I've even received two stamps on my passport!!  I've even decided that where I want to live when it's time to retire - Rota, Spain!! 

So here's a thought - why do people blog?  Do we really think we have things to share with others that is worth reading?  Maybe we do!  I have a friend read my previous blogs and remarked how much she liked, agreed, and appreciated them. I opened my blog this morning, and voila, it's been read several times since my last posting.  So someone(s) is/are reading them.  Some blogs are insightful, some are so popular they are being circulated as a newsletter.  Mine's isn't at that level, and will likely never be.  But it's mine, and I can bloviate all I want to on it!!  And people actually read them.  Thank You! I really do appreciate it.

 

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HAPPY 2014!!!

Today starts a new year - "2014"!!!  I will state - unequivocally - that I will do my darndest to write my musings when something amuses me!  Last year it was bridges, shells, birds, apologies, matters of the heart.  Who knows what it will be this year, but I resolve to post on my blog as much as I can.

So with the new year comes new resolutions (or revolutions like the cute little boy on the AT&T commercial).  I'm not a fan of resolutions because too often we become disillusioned by our lack of resolve - that we break them within the first month.  How many gym memberships go unused after February 15 (random date)?  Or how many diets are blown by the end of January 23 (another random date)?  Remember that blog of following the heart but taking my head along with me?  Yep, blew that one out of the water this year, and yes, it hurt once again.  I think I'm going to stuff my heart in a box and keep it quiet over the next year(s)!  I hate that cliche "it's better to have loved and lost than to never have loved." (Plehhh!!!) It must have been from someone who never lost - or had a pleasant loss.  I know too many people who have lost and it hurts so bad that they never love again.  And sad to say, they are the ones who hurt.  Who knows about the one they lost (and quite frankly who cares?). 

 

I'm not young anymore. Obviously I've had a birthday this year, and though I won't divulge my age (those of you who know - shhhh!!).  But suffice to say I'm not young anymore.  So if my chances of finding true love (is there such a thing?) are slim to none, if my chances of getting run over by a city bus are greater than those of me ever marrying, then I should do my darndest to make sure I look both ways before crossing a street as I get older, and that my life is set and settled for my prime years ahead.  I can't say that is the case, but here's a resolution/revolution - this year I will start making plans to preserve my later years.  I will really seriously start making plans for when, where and with whom I want to retire. If my Chew-Boo is still around, he will definitely be a part of my growing old days.  I already know where - that's Rota, Spain.  It's BEAUTIFUL!!  It will take several years to get to the point of assuring myself of a comfortable life in my later years, but I will make sure that I accomplish it, and that will be by starting This Year.  No better time than the present to really start!

So, here's to a New Year! Let's all clink our glasses to 2014!! May all the hopes and dreams we resolve to create and accomplish, BE created and may they BE accomplished!! And if not this year, here's to many new years to come so that those hopes and dream will come to fruition!!!!



HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! CLINK-CLINK!!!!