New Year, new decade, new start on this blog! I bet if you look over the history of the posts on here, I’ve probably said this a fair few times, but I am actually going to focus on keeping this blog updated from now! The sentiment of the last post comes to mind as I write this. However, my resolution for 2010 is to write more, and this blog is an essential part of that.
So what to write about? Well, I don’t know if anyone else has noticed, but there seems to be a bit of snow about at the start of this new year. You know you are getting old when you look out of the window, see snow, and rather than whoop with joy, sigh at the prospect of having to go out in the god forsaken stuff and slip and slide your way to a freezing cold office for the day.
When I saw the snow come down on Tuesday, I sighed a little. Then I caught myself. “You’re not quite that old yet”, I said to myself, and packed away my things and left for the day. I spent the next day “working from home”, which is the adult equivalent of a snow day. Spending the morning in bed, and the afternoon catching up on missed TV, the adult equivalent of sledging down hills or building a snowman, I made the most of it. It’s all about perspective I decided. Sigh if you are really looking forward to going to your job each day and the snow prevents you from doing what you love. Sigh if the snow means you’ll have to eat a can of beans for tea because there’s nothing else in. But don’t sigh just for the sake of sighing.
Far too often, I tend to moan and bitch about tiny things, as soon as the opportunity to do so arises (as those of you who know me will testify). This snow has made me re-think… Perhaps there is more to life. Forget moaning, and enjoy your snow day! That’s my new motto…. How long do we think this will last?
