All Dressed Up

All right, I know I said I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions, but everyone else is doing it and suddenly I’m all “HEY! I should make some resolutions, too!” I’m nothing if not a follower. Peer pressure. It’s what’s for dinner.

But, I digress. Let’s get to the resolutions, shall we?

1. I resolve to be less completely addicted to interested in social media. I don’t need to check Twitter from my phone at work every half an hour. I don’t need to update my facebook status a few times a week. I don’t need to read your blog posts AS SOON as you hit “publish.” I’ve been using my laptop as an escape and I want to be involved in the here and now with my family. I seem to have a raging case of the “grass is greener” syndrome.

Example: EVERYTHING will be better once I start working full time and I’m not stuck in the house with a three year old all day, every day.
Oh wait, I don’t like this working full-time stuff. I bet things would be much better if I just stayed home.

2. I resolve to be less selfish. It has occurred to be that I am extraordinarily selfish. I think of myself first in almost every situation. I get put-out if I’m not able to do what I want to do because of Maddie or Gerald. I get pissed if things aren’t done exactly when and exactly the way I want them to be done. I am not the center of the universe and everyone else doesn’t exist just to please me and make my life easier.

3. I resolve to stop raising my voice so much to Maddie and to simply remove her from the situation that’s causing the reprimand. More matter-of-fact time-outs and less yelling to “stop it, already!”

There are some other little things I’d like to work on improving, but these three are BIG DEALS and I want to concentrate on them for now. How about you? Are you resolving anything? If you’ve posted about it, please leave me a link in comments. I want to read them.