Happy New Year!

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.

G. K. Chesterton

I realize that today is January 2 and I am a day late in starting this blog. However, an unfortunate set of circumstances (headache, muscle aches, joint pain, nausea) kept me from starting yesterday as I had planned. I'm feeling much better today and hoping that yesterday wasn't an omen of things to come for 2010. Every year I say I am not going to make resolutions and every year I do anyway. I've decided to limit myself to three resolutions this year. There is, after all, a limit to the amount of failure one can tolerate. I am going to start exercising three times a week, which will hopefully lead to some long sought after weight loss, and I am going to limit my use of unsavory four letter words. In other words, use language befitting a well preserved beauty queen :) (see about me for some background on that title) I will update you periodically on how all that is going.

I hope everyone had a fun, safe New Year's eve. The photo currently posted is of Mark and me at Jim and Jack's. It was a fun filled evening of good food, great music and dancing. We hadn't actually been "out" for New Year's eve in years, I'm glad Mark pushed my to get out of my robe.

A lot of people have asked me what this blog is going to be about. Unlike my friend Mary, who has a wonderful blog dedicated to cooking (see link to her blog), this blog will be unpredictable. It may be about work, kids, husbands, friends, dogs, book club, the perils of growing more mature (not old!), cooking, or simply the quest to find the perfect pair of black shoes. Hopefully it will be a place where you can read something that will either make you say "Thank God I'm not the only one...", that's a good tip to know, or most importantly, you'll read something that will make you smile or laugh out loud.