New Year's Day

We have had a quiet day on the home front.  Selim never got out of his pajamas.  I didn't get out of my cozy clothes.  Nedim didn't go out because it was cold.  Selim and I did make it outside.  He worked on his snow cave and I tried to shovel and chip away at the thin layer of ice and snow on my side of the driveway.  The one thing I did not do today -- take down the Christmas tree.  I always do that on New Year's day while watching the Rose Parade.  But I didn't get to it today.  Slacker.

I did manage to do two loads of laundry and empty most of the bags that I had dumped by the tree when we came back from the Ashram on Sunday.  The presents are put away.  I emptied Selim's satchel full of clothes and put them away in the dresser.  My bag is still full and parked in the hallway.  Maybe tomorrow I will get around to that.  I'm finding it hard to imagine going back to work tomorrow afternoon.  I've rather enjoyed staying with family and not leaving for work at 2:00pm.

Last night I didn't have any resolutions.  But a few blogs that I follow have talked about embracing a word for the upcoming year.  That idea appeals to me.  I've been mulling the idea around for a few days now and have not been able to come up with just one word.  And I think that is the whole point -- to focus in on one.  Usually I'm pretty good with following rules (as many personality and career tests I've taken indicated that I should have been in the military) yet I can't hone in one a single idea.  There isn't one word has yelled above all the others "embody me above all others this year!"

The words that are going around in my head are: acceptance and action.  I guess I can be a rebel and chose two.  They sit well with me.  I will call on each of them in big doses as the year goes on.