Resolutions

Well, the New Year has come and we are well into 2006.  Our trip home to Wisconsin was a good time to be with family.  It wasn’t as snowy and wintry as I would have liked it (and as I always remember winters in northern Wisconsin) and clouds kept me from gazing up at the night sky in awe at the stars that city living has taken from me.  

But it was still a good time.  I was able to introduce Cari to my family, my favorite restaurant, fried turkey and most of all-fresh from the factory cheese curds.  I think she enjoyed the trip.  

And now it is 2006 and life has seemed to return basically to normal.  The weather has been rainy and cloudy—kind of a metaphor for how I have felt lately—sort of  bored with my life—not an enjoyable sunny day nor a storm that is filled with excitement.

Finally, today the sun came out (after three weeks) today.  It was a reminder to me that rain and clouds are not permanent and that there is a sunny day where things will start to come together and I will again.

I have been hoping for a sunny day but not really taking any steps to get there.  So that is my resolution for this year—that I hope to do something, anything, instead of waiting around for things to happen.  I have started with some little things—I am going to be more physically active (I am tired of feeling like crap because I am overweight) and I am going to free up myself from many of my obligations with my church so that I have  more time to invest in people.

Happy New Year.

Mike