January 2024, off to a good start!

Well, here I am, I’ve survived Christmas and the New Year celebrations.  I got through it all, and wonder at the bad mood I was in on December 23rd.  Sorry to anyone who read that post and felt worried about me.  Reading it through now, January 7th, I see how dire and gloomy I was back on that day before Christmas Eve.  When things actually weren’t that different, when my mood and reality were pretty much in check.  It seems like I was trying to establish that all was indeed normal, but look at what normal is for me, look, everybody!  Normal doesn’t run that deep for me, everybody, look.  I wonder what possessed me to feel like I wanted everyone to understand what I am really feeling, underneath it all—to what (yes, I am going to say it) ‘my truth’ is.  (There, yes, I wrote out that unbelievably contrite, irritating phrase! I won’t have to again.)  And thanks to those who reached out.  I was even a little surprised that there are people out there who actually read my blog!

So, on the books for me this month: 1) finish my writing course on BBC Maestro (on novels with Ken Follett), 2) clean up this website, update it with new links and news, link to my new short story about a fat woman like me, 3) work like the devil on Granny.doc, with a fresh wind for my sails, a way of viewing things differently, allowing myself a total re-write (and as soon as I thought of a complete start over, I felt terrific—relaxed, with a very busy mind that had so many ways to go!), 4) umh, lose weight and exercise more?  Yeah, whatever, Jocelyn!

What are your resolutions for the year 2024?  Are they ‘normal,’ ‘predictable,’ a re-telling of last year’s?  Mine is a mix of those things, but checking my list up above, I see enough interesting and new to keep me going. 

So, Happy New Year to those of you out there who read my blog!  The best to you and yours.