My resolution is to organize my STUFF – assemble shelving, and get things out of the cardboard boxes from the liquor store (where they've been since I moved in, an embarrassingly long time ago), and put things on display. I'm tired of not being able to find anything, and I'm tired of living in an apartment that makes me look like I have a drinking problem!!!

BTW, I'd also like to lose 70 or 75 pounds. Maybe if I lift enough STUFF I'll burn off the fat! But I don't hope to lose all that weight in one year (that wouldn't be healthy). Losing ANY of that weight would be satisfactory! So I resolve to lose SOME weight.

Finally, I resolve not to let myself get perpetually angry or depressed over my father's declining mental health. I'm watching it eat away at my brother (the primary "caregiver"), and it's all too easy to get caught up in my brother's feelings until I've made them my own, but I recognize that anger or sadness won't change the situation. So I'm going to do my best to accept the situation as a part of my father's life, and mine.

Oh yeah, and I resolve to copyright some of my songs. I'm not ready to resolve to make a CD yet!

Sharon