Happy Belated New Year!

I already broke the one resolution I made - no more candy, which didn't include homebaked goods. Gone. I plan to lose weight, but that wasn't really a resolution. I fiddled with the idea of losing soda pop, but please. I drink so few things that limiting my choices that much just would have killed me. I think that if I ever gave up candy and stuff like chips, I could do it. But not now. Now is too overwhelming.

After I'd read a few books this week, a little into last, I realized I would need to make a new list. Huh. Came as kind of a shock that a year has passed. I read 129 books last year. Nice. Thought I'de read more, but nice. That includes comics, whether you think they count or not - and by comics I mean graphic novels that take me an hour to read. Those do not include American comics that taken minutes. While good, I didn't add them. I might do so this year. I also didn't count fanfiction. That one seems obvious to me why, but I do waste hours on fanfiction. Just so you all know. :) I don't know how long that list will stay up there. If I knew a way to do so, I would shrink it all and have it open only when you ran over it. But I don't, so it shall have to be deleted at some points.

I want to heavy duty clean my room and start eradicating it of junk. I'm a junk-aholic. I collect everything, save everything. That stuff builds up! My walls are covered, and I have knicknacks everywhere. I want to get rid of some/most of it. Turns out, I have no more room for movies on my movies holder. That's a wee bit depressing, since that means they move over to my bookcases, which are already strained anyways. Part of this cleaning gig is to get the knickknacks off my books cases so I have room for books. And now dvds. I want to get rid of said items that I bought and didn't like. I also want money, petty cash, so selling some of this stuff at a garage sale might afford me enough for two smoothies at Jamba Juice. Yeah! :)

I did end the year on a good note, though. I donated a hundred bucks. I hadn't donated in a while, so I was past due. I don't donate that much often, but I was in one of those moods where I feel like I have so much and everyone else so little. Sooo...

Ok, I lied. I have another resolution. I'm trying not to just buy junk. So far, since before New Years, so good. No more cute stuffed animals, no more clearance crap, no more Mom is buying it so ok (although that one needs some work, and I did need some little tree ornaments for the fake tree I need to get...). Books and movies are not on this list. They don't count as useless stuff but valid entertainment. I'm trying not to get any more dust collectors, or clothes that I don't wear often or at all. Or shoes. Or bags. Or Disney stuff. believe it or not, I'm even curbing my useless book binge. There were two books I wanted to buy today, that were cutesy but nothing I would really pick up again. I didn't, which was good since I laid down thrity bucks later online at BN. *sigh*

I think that is it for useless rambling. I might have to buy a plant for the New Year. That doesn't count as junk, but oxygen. :)

For Ultimatum, I GOT SOME REVIEWS! I was so pleased when I saw the notices in my mailbox. :D It made me so happy that I wanted to post something. So, directly after I finish updating my blog, I plan to write. Not sure how far it shall get, but I'm going to write. Because, dammit, I want more reviews!! :)

PS I've been fleshing out my story idea at work - as in book-book. Daydreaming while scrubbing floors does wonders. :) It has made me giddy.

~BK