Before I start this, I just want to say "thanks" to everyone that comes here.  You guys are really the best.  I appreciate EVERY comment and thank you for taking your time to share them.  If you are a blogger yourself you probably know how much it means have comments.  I don't always have time to respond to them and some don't seem to need a response, but I read every one with great interest.  I am honored when people feel they can comment, even though they don't echo my thoughts and feelings.  That is really awesome to me.  Thanks to all of you.

J

The custom of making New Years resolutions started 4000 years ago in Babylon and people have been breaking them ever since.  Okay, here they come:

1. I Resolve NEVER to pet-sit again as long as I live.
2. I Resolve to read the Bible all the way through.  Our church gives out BREAD (Bible Reading Enriches Any Day) charts that go between the Old and New Testaments.  I have read it through a couple of times before but what usually happens is I get sidetracked on studying something out and forget about where I was at, get discouraged and give up.
3. I Resolve to try to update these blogs at least once or twice a week, even if I have nothing to say.  (Oh, yeah Herb, how is that any different?)
4. I Resolve to update my blogroll and links and keep them that way.
5. I Resolve to finish a story and submit it somewhere.
6. I Resolve to find a place to join like http://www.fictionpress.com/ or http://www.fanfiction.net/ or http://www.fanstory.com/.  It may be the last one because that is the on that Writer's Digest suggests.
7. I Resolve to try to love a liberal.
8. I Resolve to try to get my weight down to "overweight."
9. I Resolve to enter something in some writing contest somewhere.
10. I Resolve to make more long-distance calls to friends and family.
11. Since you are reading this on the 2nd you can tell I need to put "Stop Procrastinating" on this list, and maybe I will add it next year.

I think that's plenty to try to accomplish in one year.

Remember, The Good Book says:  "For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was."