Coming back to life

I'm not big on new year resolutions. Yes, it is good to have goals, and yes, another trip around the sun could be a good time to start them, but I think that the best time to start something is generally as soon as possible, unless there is a really good reason to wait. I do like to make a general outline of things I'd like to do in the next year. For example, last year I decided that I wanted to start learning how to cook different kinds of food and I wanted to start exercising regularly, two goals that I certainly met this year.

Blogging, however, was not high on my priority list. Obviously. This will change in the next year, I hope. I'm not going to call it a resolution because I want to give myself wiggle room, but I am going to try to blog about something at least once a week. There will be some similar postings as I have done in the past, but also some very different ones as I am no longer a student and I have my own house and some new hobbies now.

2009 changes:

• Graduated from graduate school in May!
• Started work as a middle school teacher in September
• I teach American history to 7th graders and Civics/Economics to 8th graders ... very different from the whole teaching world history life plan
• Moved back to Northern Virginia
• Attending "adult" church, and some "young adult" church
• Living in a new HOUSE with four other girls
• Picked up running as a hobby

Topics that will stay consistent:

• Writing/fan fiction (still have to finish "Heart of Gold" anyway!)
• Worship drabbles
• Public schooling thoughts
• General state of the world drabbles
• General Christianity drabbles

We'll see if this happens. :) Like I said, not a resolution, but certainly an intention. Here's to 2010!