Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, everyone!  2008 was a terrific year for me, and 2009 promises to be better.  This is the year that my weight will finally get to good.  I'm going to do at least one 5K.  I'll be graduating from EfM in May.  And I'll likely start ballet lessons in the fall.

Of course I have travel plans already.  I'm hoping to have my trip to Hawaii approved (for the MLA conference).  I'll also be making a trip west in June to visit friends in SoCal (LA and San Diego) and will be making a side trip to Vegas for a friend's birthday party.  Yay!

I do have some resolutions.  They're pretty boring, so I'm not going to list them all here.  Overall, today I'm in a better place than I was this time last year on so many fronts.  It's going to be a fantastic year!

Finally, a quote from the awesome Neil Gaiman:

...I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.