New Year's Resolutions

     Yes, it is the middle of the month and I am still emotionally recovering from December.  I still do not have a 2014 calendar.  (BTW-does anyone have a family birthday list?  Mine is way outdated.)  I finally feel good enough to want to do something besides read or watch Netflix.  I've decided to make a few resolutions that will help me do something outside of myself this year.
     Last year I was in a play and ran my first 5K race.  I would like to do both again and do them better, but I would also like to start drama classes for underprivileged kids so that the community theater can get a grant so that I can be in more I realize how selfish this sounds, but I need something that will get me out of the house so that I feel like a person and if those some things revolve around something I love, all the better
      I also want to finish my novel and write another.  I have so many ideas running around in my head and they need an outlet.  Some titles include:  The Misadventures of the Graceless Coed, Accidental Cheater, and Captain Oblivious.
     Losing the proverbial excess weight is on my list as well.  I can't be Ado Annie and be too fat to pick up.  I am tracking my food intake and that is not the problem.  It is my sedentary lifestyle.  I really need to do something other than read and watch Netflix before I have a heart attack.  Judge me all you want, but it won't hurt my feelings.  Everyone has problems and breaking the habit of depression when I am not depressed is mine.  The hard part comes when it isn't a habit and I am not able to do anything about it.  The cycle is killing me.  But, as I said before, I need something outside myself to keep me going and the more I have extrinsically motivating me the better I do.

*  It has been 11 months since this was written and I have worked really hard on some of these resolutions and not so hard on others.  We were in Oklahoma.  It was fun and awful at the same time.  I didn't like the director and yet I loved the play and being in it with Trent and Esther.
     I haven't written any of my books, but I don't sit around all day anymore.  I work really hard and I am on my feet most of the day.  We all also ran in the 5K and I added seven minutes to my time instead of improving because of the downpour that occurred on the day.
     So far it has been a pretty good year for self-improvement and I am helping others a great deal more than I have been in the past.  I consider that a successful year.