Happy New Year!

It’s the day of resolutions and, like many, I’ve got mine ready to go.

Fourth on the list — my resolution came with friends — is to publish weekly to The World According to Joy. Since no one complained about the lack of posts during the bulk of 2009, I’m not expecting anyone to really care about what I’ll have to say every week but I’m doing this more for me.

That’s what most of the resolutions are about, actually. Me.

Selfish, I know, but I don’t think I take nearly enough opportunities to be a little selfish. It’s not that I don’t enjoy being a giver — and I fully intend to continue to be the Joy everyone can rely on — but I also need to stop taking guilt trips when I want a day to sit around the house doing nothing or take a little time to do what I want.

The rest of my resolutions center around that theme — doing the things that I want or need to do. I want (and need) to lose the weight I gained while on the evil, evil Methotrexate during last winter’s arthritic flare-up. I need to not wear myself to the point of exhaustion so that I don’t even have the energy to take care of the little, important, things like proper oral hygiene. I want to journal daily to help to keep focused on the important things I need to be doing as well as to keep track of the important things going on around me. The journaling is part of another resolution, to complete my Year and a Day study of my first Wiccan degree.

It’s a new year, a new decade, and I’ve got new focus. Like Happy Bunnys syas, "Let’s focus on me."