Hello 2007!

Happy New Year to you all!

I decided to squeeze in one last great adventure with Best Friend in 2006 and to start out 2007 in a fun, unique way. So we left yesterday morning and took a daytrip to Tucson, Arizona. I just got home a few hours ago. And even though Arizona isn’t really a New Year’s Eve-ish type of destination, it was the best New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day I think I ever had! And there was adventure! What more could a girl like me ask for?

But you will just have to come back and read the post of trip later. I am so tired right now! I will be posting details in the couple of days. (Isn’t this a cool trick to have you all come back to my blog?)

For now, I just want to share my New Year’s resolution. I really don’t make typical (weight loss, new career path, buy a house, meet “the one”) resolutions as I feel that they are something that most people make up just to sound like they have real goals for the year, but break them before the month of January ends. Then they use the excuse that they have the rest of the year to meet their goal. And then if they don’t make it, they can use it again for the next year’s resolution. I tend to make a general rule of choosing a New Year’s goal of something fun so that I know I will achieve it.

This year I decided that I am going to celebrate life. I am going to enjoy every occasion. I am going to be contented in the simple things of life. For example, this last birthday of mine was the first one I had celebrated in many years and it was great! Usually, I just ignore it, feel depressed, and hope everyone else forgets it, too. This year I celebrated it. I celebrated my life. Also, this New Year’s is the only one I can remember starting the year out the way that I want to live my life for the year. It was wonderful. (But you still have to wait to read the details! Ha!)

This year I am going to celebrate milestones in my life and in my friends’ and family’s lives. I am going to savor the first snowflake that falls from the sky (because I believe it is going to finally snow here, damn it!). I am going to breathe in deeper the fragrance of spring flowers and cherish more the colors of the fall leaves. I am even going to complain less about the summer’s unbearable humidity and have more barbeques on the grill. If I have money, I might even go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans or to the St. Patty’s Day festival in Savannah. And I am even— friends who know me well, get ready for this!—going to celebrate Valentine’s Day this year! That’s right; I am going to ask some very lucky guy to a special outing even if it means catching another plane somewhere to do something awesome and out of the ordinary. I will (at least try) not to view Valentine’s Day as the day the devil trades in his pitchfork and dons cherub wings and calls himself Cupid and guilts us into spending money we don’t have to prove that we love/like one another and pushes us to try to top other couples’ gifts to one another. Oh shoot! That day is coming up next month, right? I better get busy selecting a nice gentleman to dine with. Can anyone out there help me out with a hook up? haha ;)

So there you have it…Outdoorsy Girl’s goal for 2007—to celebrate and appreciate! It may sound too simple or too cheesy, but my last year’s resolution was… No more Vodka for Outdoorsy Girl. As I see it, I’m doing better already. ;)