Happy 2010!

I can't believe it's a new decade, not just a new year. It seemed like last year was Y2K. Time's flown.

I took a hiatus from blogging for most of December. But not because I was on holiday. Just the opposite. While most jobs close down or at least lighten up for the year end holidays, my day job gets crazy. We work extra-long hours. We come home not just tired but totally drained. We barely get time to go to the bathroom or grab a bite to eat.

Things should start getting back to normal. Now we'll get a chance to catch up on the mountains of paperwork that stacked up while the phones rang off the hook and emails filled our in boxes.

It may take me a little while to get rested up and renew my energy but soon, I hope to get back to normal blogging and writing.

Here are my New Year's resolutions:

Cut way back on soda.

Diet and excercise at least 5 days weekly to lose weight.

Write at least 2 sweet romances this year as well as several erotic romances.

Spend more time with my grandchildren.

Save more money. Spend less.

Keep up with my blog.

Stay in closer touch with family and friends.

Get back into doing genealogy.

The highlights of the past decade for me has been:

The birth of my granddaughter, C.

Being promoted to manager at my day job.

Losing 95 pounds.

American Idol.

Working with Total-E-Bound and The Wild Rose Press.

The friends I've made online and off.

What about you?

Wow! We're really in 2009?

Can you believe it's 2009? The number sounds so futuristic to me. Then again, so did 1999 and 2000. Did you ever see Space 1999? I watched that as a teenager and we truly believed we'd be in space somehow, someway, on a large basis by then. Conversely, we (most of us anyway - well, me anyway) had no clue about innerspace - the Internet - coming. It seems like Y2K was just a year ago, not almost TEN years ago. What were you doing ten years ago? In 1999 I was canning food, backing up computer files, buying survival supplies, and planting fruit trees. We'd just bought our house. My son and his wife were married. My first grandchild was born. I wasn't convinced the world was going to end, that all computers would crash, but I like to be prepared, so I prepared both ways. I kept writing and publishing, but I also prepared in case computers crashed. My kids and my friends thought I was nuts. In retrospect, I suppose we did look like nuts. But you know what? On New Year's Eve 2000 my computer crashed. Honestly. So it was a good thing I had my son back up everything. We used the extra food I had stashed a year or so later during lean times, so that didn't go to waste, either. Now, I update automatic deductions on credit cards for my day job and the card expiration dates go up to 2014. I'm in awe. Before we know it, it will 2020, and then 2030. I'll be 60, then 70, then 80, and then oh my. It's mind boggling. This decade has flown by. On the whole, it's been great with just a few bumps. It sure doesn't feel like 10 years have gone by. It's been nice, but doesn't seem like the highly futuristic society the old TV shows predicted it to be. You'll also want to see what Amarinda Jones, Anika Hamilton, Anny Cook, Barbara Huffert, Brynn Paulin, Bronwyn Green, Dakota Rebel, Kelly Kirch, Molly Daniels, Sandra Cox, Regina Carlysle, and Cindy Spencer Pape are up to, so make sure to visit them also. :)