My Top Ten Resolutions for the New Year

The top resolutions made each year involve weight loss, quitting smoking, more exercise and saving money. Well, I've made all of those resolutions before. Like 46% of people that make resolutions, I didn't stick to them longer than six months. One of the biggest contributors to not making the resolution stick is a lack of a long term plan. Another reason resolutions don't work is because they don't fit into your lifestyle!

So this year I'm making New Year's Resolutions I think I can keep!

In order of least important to most important, here they are.

10. No more drinking and driving. DND it's known as out here (drinkin' 'n drivin') in Iowa. Or gravel jammin'. This one should be relatively easy for me, I don't drink. I'm always the designated driver. Always. So maybe I'll spice this one up and refuse to drive my drunk friends. Let them get a cab. Wait, there are no cabs out here. Okay, they can find another sober driver, at least once a month.

9. Eat cookies every day. Okay, maybe just one cookie. Well, two at the most. There is no sense in depriving yourself. When you go on the diet you think you can't eat your favorite foods. Then of course you get frustrated and end up eating an entire package of Oreo's. So why not eat one cookie a day and get those cravings out of the way? I think I'll have my cookie with breakfast.

8. Read a book once a week. Here again, not a hard New Year's Resolution to keep. I usually read two books a week. This way though, I'll make sure I read at least one book. Keep myself educated!

7. Stay up to date on current events. That means watching the news at least 1/2 hour a day. Our big screen TV should help with that. It will also help that my husband is a CNN junkie. I can put down my book for 1/2 an hour a day.

6. Walk to the mailbox once a week. Okay, this one will be harder to do. My mailbox is 1/2 mile away. We live 'out in the cow pasture' and the mailman does not come to the house. He stops at the end of the driveway and leaves it in the box. But I figure I can walk out there once a week. There are conditions on this one though. If it's below 20 degrees, if it's blizzarding outside or if the cows are blocking the driveway - I won't walk. So I think I'll start this New Year's Resolution in April!

5. Call my grandbabies once a week and tell them I love them. Okay, I know we all want to do this one. But I'm telling you the weeks fly by and we forget to tell our loved ones how much they mean to us. So my 8 year old grandson A.J., my six year old granddaughter Capri and my five year old granddaughter Imani are going to get a phone call every week! Whether they want a call or not.

4. Call everyone I know and tell them I have a home business and I want them to shop with me. I figure I know at least 200 people so I'll take 3 months to fulfill this New Year's Resolution. That's 17 people a week. That's 2.42 people a day. I can do that, really I can.

3. I resolve to consider stop smoking cigarettes. I've been watching these commercials that say it's too hard to quit. That smoking cigarettes is an addiction. So I'm going to consider what it will be like to quit. I'm not actually going to quit. I'm addicted you know. It's too hard. But I'm sure going to consider it! I might even stop smoking when I'm sitting at my computer. Unless it's too hard. I'll consider it.

2. I promise not to dress up my cats in funny hats. Okay, they really don't like it and they seldom wear them more than 2 minutes. The stupid hats are hard to make and cost way too much money (even on eBay). So this year, my cats will be hat free.

1. And last but not least, I resolve to wear my dentures all day and stop making that stupid Popeye face when I wake up my husband. It scares him. It makes me laugh. I don't want to scare him anymore, at least with that stupid face! I'll have to think of something else.

Okay - those are my top ten New Year's Resolution! I think I can keep them for longer than six months. Now I've got to work on my plan...........