A Last Minute New Year

I fully intended on entering a post before the new year started… one to throw the last of the Christmas pictures on and wish everyone a safe and happy New Year's celebration… Since my last post, I've spend a great deal of mental energy in trying to convincing myself that our friends wouldn't be able to make it up for the weekend, the stars would not aline, they would not be able to help us ring in the new year, which would leave me with plenty of time, on Saturday, to finish up a last year's entry.



My reverse psychology trickery worked like a charm… Friends arrived on Friday and between drinking bloody mary's in the morning, cooking both breakfast and lunch in my pajamas, taking names in Wii's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" and going to bed 43 minutes shy of the new year's ball dropping, unfortunately blog time could not be found.



I need to acknowledge how pathetic we must all be, that staying up until midnight is such an unachievable feat, and how it was just as ridiculous for me to talk myself out of believing that the treat of having Clay and Rachel here for the weekend, was due to me perplexing the worlds energy into securing them to be delivered safely at our doorstep.




I didn't prepare for any celebration as well as I should have… Prepared food stock was low, store runs were frequent, and anything flashing with 2012 was 100% absent.. but the amazingness of a new year's start is vividly promising and nourishingly fueling.



The awareness of how quickly 2011 ended, has never been more evident. We're a day in, and I'm already convinced that this year, is going to be one worth celebrating each moment, for the next 365 days.

With all of that said, you would think this fueling of ceasing this year's potential would some how move me swiftly from this couch right now… but if 2011 taught me anything, it's that the leisure time is just as important as the restless…. and today is the rest-full.



Happy beginning of a New Year!




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Much like this weekend, I haven't prepared for this month's giveaway either… So if you leave a comment, it will enter you to win, a very lack luster, last minute giveaway of some homemade lip balm & mason jar of mandarin scented body salt scrub… (yep, that's what I've got….Goodnyou?…. but I will try to do better February!)

Kudos until next time!