So...it's 2008. (by Sara Bennett)
Another year older and a new one just begun, as the song says.

As usual, I've told myself that this year will be different. I've made my New Year's resolutions and I'm determined to succeed.

1) I will be totally and completely organized.

2) I will set aside lots of time for writing, so that I don't find myself a couple of weeks before deadline and in a panic, not this year.

3) I will make certain my house is immaculate, completely dust and cobweb free, and everything set out like a picture in a magazine.

4) I will spend more time with my family, particularly my elderly mother, and my son who is in his last year at high school and needs to be reminded about homework and, more often than I like to admit, to get up in the morning and get going.

5) I will take time to visit more websites and chat. I will blog more often. I will update my own websites more often. I will answer my emails every day.

6) I will lose weight and go for long walks. I will even go to the gym once a week.

Anyway, you get the picture. By the end of January, I am starting to slide. By February, hope is fading. By March, well, the house is a mess, I'm in a panic about deadlines, I leave my emails until Sunday and then answer them, the healthy diet has been abandoned in favor of the chocolate and cheesecake diet. And I've realized I can't possibly manage to succeed with my resolutions. I'm not superwoman. Like all of us busy people, I have to juggle my working and personal life as best I can and hope for the best.

In fact, I think that'll be my resolution for 2009.

Hope for the best!

Sara