Welcome to my first blog post of 2012! Apparently I made no resolution to blog more frequently. Ironically the blogger.com spell-check gives me the evil red squiggly underline for "blog" and "blogger". Perhaps I should be more proper and resort to the source of the name, weblog. Sure enough, weblog does not get the evil red squiggly!
I am actually more excited to be coming up on one year of marriage than I am to start a new year. I unfortunately saw lots of Facebook posts regarding how poor people felt last year went; aching to start again. I have been extremely blessed and cannot complain at all. I look to the future with excitement but the past has treated me well. The turns that my life has taken have been quite fortunate, and I equate them somewhat to the philosophy emphasized in "Yes Man", a Jim Carrey movie. Everyday you are given little choices, some of which open you up to new opportunities. Making a habit of dismissing new things will keep you safe in your bubble of near predictability and may be the key to happiness for certain personalities. I prefer to see where life will take me and try not to be afraid of new experiences--some of which are certainly more risky than others. I have had an "emergency blanket" so to speak in that I have a wonderful family that I knew I could count on should things go too terribly after picking a wrong turn. Family values, or more important "valuing family" is terribly important to me and one of most lamentable scarcities in the US today. Let's take the time to value our family, close friends, and neighbors (GRRR, blogging from the UK means that "neighbors" gets an evil red squiggly, I WILL NOT WRITE NEIGHBOURS) and to seek out in person connections with these people in 2012. Let's not ask the government for help, let's help each other.
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