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intertext ([personal profile] intertext) wrote2007-12-31 05:35 pm

A Good Year

It's not over yet, but I plan to put my feet up and watch movies and maybe even go to bed early tonight, so thought I would post a few reflections.

It has been a good year. I found myself still in the process of recovery from grief and getting used to being alone after ten years of intensive care-giving. It's amazing how difficult learning to be happy can be, sometimes. I'm not always successful, but at least I'm learning to get help when I need it.

Friendships have been a delight. I have some lovely new ones, and some old casual friends are becoming much more important friends, and old friends are still there, solid as a rock. I had a vague resolution to be more social this past year, and I think I can say I've succeeded.

I went to Paris!!!!!!

I still have both my dogs, and they are still wonderful, and Cholmondeley is 14 1/2 but remarkably well, if a bit frail.

Clio-the-cat continues to keep me warm at night, relaxed in the evening, and well aware of my inferiority.

I don't do resolutions, really, but I want to lose a few pounds, get a little fitter, read more, write even more than that, and learn to be a little more - balanced - about life. Perhaps writing them here will give those wishes a bit more power.

May 2008 bring all my dear LJ friends every blessing and delight: good books, good movies, good food, good company, solace in nature, laughter, and a new season of Battlestar Galactica!!!!!

[identity profile] lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com 2008-01-01 12:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow - this is so beautifully expressed.

I'm with you in the desire to learn to be more balanced about life. My younger daughter and I are still trying to work out how to involve the purchase of fabulous notebooks in our plan to be each other's coaches in this goal.

[identity profile] intertext.livejournal.com 2008-01-01 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Hahaha. I am SO with you on that. I love fabulous notebooks and have many beautiful empty ones cluttering up the house. That doesn't stop me buying more, though :)