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Each year I resolve to do many things. Unfortunately, as so many resolutions do, they fall to the wayside. Some resolutions survive the entire year, others make it to about July then wither...and even more (hangs head in shame) barely make it into February. More embarrassingly, or perhaps I am merely human, I do have perennial resolutions. Health ones (move more and eat less). Home ones (get some bloody things done and finished!) And each year I strive .... attempt ...pretend that I can keep my desk tidy. Each year I work at it. I spend hours moving things, putting pieces of paper in the bin, replacing books back in the bookshelf, becoming lost as I reread something I've been working on. At the end of said hours I have something that looks like this. However it doesn't last long. After only a few hours some chaotic whirlwind has deposited an unpaid bill...a reminder of necessary equipment for a children's program.....a phone number on a piece of torn paper...

January, to those who work in public libraries, means school holidays. This means lots of people, lots of kids. It means programs and fun activities...it means creative chaos. It also is when we look at the year ahead of us and hmmm and hah over what we want to achieve. To look at what's working, and then what isn't, and try to figure out why. As I said last blog I'm great with coming up with personal goals and ambitions, for myself and my home. Have even completed one goal already....(insert smiley face). The writing goals always take longer to plan. One that I have decided on is to get back to all those works in progress. (Well perhaps not ALL...I mean there is a lot,   hundreds  thousands of them) The garden bed under the Bay tree is one of my many gardening works in progress. I was very hesitant about putting in the bromeliads...but they have thrived. Have flowered each year and born pups. Then I decided to add a succulent. You can see a tiny piece behind ...

So 2016 is done and dusted and we move onto 2017. Surprisingly it feels very much like the previous year. However new year it is and as January pushes forward we all begin to think of resolutions. Or goals...or aims...or what on earth am I going to do this year? For a lot of people there is a path clearly defined. They want to change jobs...move house... change partners. There is a holiday they have saved up and planned for. Perhaps a new home, new baby. Some have renovations planned...new carpet..new paint...new curtains and blinds. (we all know once you start it is a slippery slope of DIY) I find the house and garden plans for the new year easy. I want to paint the small bedside table in son's ex-room and the dresser in the dining room...get some new kitchen chairs....we need blinds for the kitchen so the late summer sun doesn't continue to blind us and turn the room into an oven. There is also some lighting work to happen (would help if you can actually re...

We have a display at work, all about new year, new beginnings. Everything from weight loss to healthy eating, cookbooks and get fit quick books, quit smoking books to meditation. And of course they are being picked up...there is something about a new fresh year, full of promise that makes people decide 'yep this year I will definitely....' I mean let's see, there is 365 brand new days waiting to be....ooops...today is the 7th so already I have wasted 7 whole days doing nothing...so now I have 358 days to do all that I want to do... Time is ticking away....precious seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks and before we know it months will have slipped past and I'll still be here trying to decide what exactly I want to focus on this year. It is a new year, there are still 358 days to accomplish things in. Just exactly what those 'things' will be is still a mystery. At least for the moment. Do like this writer's clock...at the moment it is revise ...