Like anyone else, I love the holiday season. We celebrate Thanksgiving, Hannakah and Christmas at my house, so it’s quite a lot of fun. However, my most private self loves New Year’s Day the very most. I love taking a clean pad of paper and making resolutions. In fact, the whole holiday to me is just crisp and clean and white. I hate to be a scrooge, but as much as I enjoy them, every other holiday is messy. The clutter gets under my skin. I’m not a neat person by any means, I just hate clutter.

So, while most of you are looking ahead to Christmas, I have New Year’s on my mind. I’m going to start early this year with my resolutions. I figure that New Year’s Day could be even more wonderful if you didn’t have to waste your resolutions on on things like exercising or dieting. What if you could concentrate on all the good ones like, “I’m going to be nicer to my dog this year.” (Which was one of the few resolutions that I kept this year.)

My plan is to spend these weeks before New Years developing good habits, so I have them out of the way for New Year’s Day. I’m not even going to plan what they are. I’m just going to pick on good habit at a time, and once I’ve gone two days of it seccuessfully, I’m going to add one more–until I’ve reached 25.

Every time I master a good habit I will put it on my sidebar. If I stop doing it every day then I have to take it off my sidebar until I have done it for two days in a row.

My first good habit will be brushing my teeth every morning.

You believed me? What’s the matter with you. I do that already.

My first good habit will actually be going to bed on time. And I’ll start tonight.

Feel free to join me with your own picks if you want.

I need to put Mistress Mary’s exercise logo up there, too.

By the way, one of my other New Year’s Resolutions last year was journaling reguarly. That’s what prompted me to start this blog one month later.