Happy New Year to everyone!  I like the sound of 2012.  It has a nice ring to it.  Today, as it happens, is my birthday as well as the second day of the new year, so I get to start off clean and new on all fronts.  Ferdy had a bath yesterday, so he's starting out the year clean and new as well. We generally bathe him once a week.  We were advised to do it once a month, but he enjoys bath day so very much that we decided to make it a more frequent event.  He's more relaxed on bath day than at any other time, lets his quills down, and makes happy little snuffly noises.


I don't do New Year's resolutions, as such.  There's a general intention to be better and do better than the previous year, but I find specific resolutions (aside from the "made to be broken" aspect) to be more muddlesome than anything else.  I certainly ended 2011 in a different (and hopefully better) place than I began it, and isn't that what ought to happen?


Still expect the "controversial" post on the health care system one day soon, but not today. As it is my birthday, and I spent the morning in dutiful industry organizing my fabric stash, and the early afternoon getting Aaron's oil changed and promoting Ashford, I intend to retreat downstairs, make myself a cappuccino, and curl up with a book until Aaron gets home, at which point we shall go down to Sporty's to celebrate.  Hurrah!

Happy New Year, a day late

Happy New Year, and Happy Birthday to me!  Twenty-five today.  I have a feeling this is supposed to be a milestone of sorts, but I really don't feel any different than I did yesterday.  


Looking back at the past year, I see good and bad things, things I wish had happened that didn't and things I never expected to that did.  I wanted to finish my novel, and I did, but I'm still waiting for that acceptance letter.  I started a new one, but am not quite as far along with it as I would like.  Aaron and I bought a house, and I have to be glad and amazed that we could actually manage it so soon.  Altogether it has been a good year.


Oh, the latest Reanimated Rags project is a dress made from curtains, which, appropriately enough, I've been referring to as the "Scarlet O'Hara".  Still not quite sure I have any right to try to peddle these things, but people do seem to like them.  Hopefully I'll get some pictures up soon-ish.


I don't generally make New Year's resolutions, as I'm quite prone to guilt, but I do set goals.  Somehow "goals" sounds a little less, well, resolved, thus there is less guilt if you fall short, or so I tell myself.  Maybe I'm just weak.  It's quite possible.  In any case, we shall see soon enough if the goals set for 2011 end up fulfilled or not.