Happy New Year

And a Happy Healthy New Year from me to all.I don't do resolutions any longer, I never keep them. Juno

Mine is to make the time to sew more this year! I have 5 lovely grandprincesses and one grandprince charming, so lots of call for princess dresses and camo items. I made the girls flirty nighties for Christmas. Good luck, Claire, with your organizational aspirations - I believe in you!

Cyndi in Seattle, WA, USA

From me, too, the same to all of you. Hah, I don't make any resolutions anymore, too, for the same reason. Although I'm constantly struggling to give my life a bit more structure; but that's my resolution for every day, and every morning I try to see how far I get. ;-) Perhaps the only way resolutions work - one day at a time?

U.

My determination for self-improvement for the coming year is to organize my sewing spaces (yes, both of them), and to move around more.... IOW, exercise. Losing some weight would be a happy bonus.

Le 02/01/2014 00:39, Ursula Schrader a écrit :

One day at a time sounds like a good plan to me Ursula. I shall amend my resolution to being organised for Toady. I am probably over ambitious at being organised . My worst trait is to do what is urgent and leave the rest, hence my hope to be an organised person

Or even Today!! Honestly brain gone off.

I thought maybe Toady was your new fella. :-D

LOL. Hmm Toady sounds like the type who would sidle up to you and tell you what he thinks you need to hear or one with bumpy green skin, not sure I want one like that . I'll stick with the moustachioed Welshman me thinks.

I was thinking it might be the character played by Robert Preston in "Victor/Victoria", but I see that is spelled differently.

LOL, too! Funny, I thought the same; he's got such a wide mouth... ;-)

U.

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Oh, I know what you mean. However, it might be a comfort to you that at least you *do* the urgent stuff. Some unlucky folks never get over the 'do things in order of appearance' phase. That is what I would call a bad method.

Today I was so organised to update my household accounts book (which is an Excel file). I finally found a solution for some tweak I wanted it to have and feel very great about it. However, what feels not so great is the deficit that remains after typing in every expenditure of December. It might be worse, though, and I will be able to balance things in the course of this month. Still... Well, I have to go off the 'spending'-mode and switch to 'saving'-mode.

Fortunately, I have a lot of sewing projects to start for the summer, and more to finish before the winter is over. That should help take the restlessness out of me.

But isn't it funny: I had planned to sew today but it looks a lot like that won't happen. Instead I'll make the new weeks meals plan and a shopping list and go shopping for food. Ah well... At least I will get done something. I think, another good idea to improve your life is to be more kind to oneself. So, I won't beat myself for not getting one thing done but praise myself for getting done something at all. (Mind 'Done is better than perfect'!) ;-)

U.