carpe annum 2011

i tell myself at the start of every year. make changes. spend more time with family & friends. travel more. eat healthier. my body is a temple, treat it right. and yet, i somehow always successfully manage to regress. it always starts off with one day, then a week and before you know it... i'm doing it again... working myself to exhaustion, losing sleep, losing my sanity, gaining stress, losing communication with family & friends, losing my passions & interests, losing MYSELF. not this year.

carpe annum bitches. SEIZE.  THE.  YEAR.

it's time for real talk. i'm not going to let that feeling of sadness and guilt overwhelm me at the end of every year when i've realized i've let another year pass me by.  my daughter is one year older. my relationship is one year longer. all those home projects i had planned are still waiting for my attention.  i'm not gonna watch my life pass me by year after year. it's time to make shit count!

i'm not a fan of resolutions, b'coz i believe that if you really want to make a change, you'll do it without waiting for the beginning of a new year.  but b'coz i'm realizing at the end of every year how my life has zipped, i am going to make a resolution this year.

my 2011 resolution: I WILL NOT LET LIFE PASS ME BY!

i vow to get my ass out of bed EARLY so i can go to work early so i can get home at a early and spend time with my two favorite people and our animals.  i vow to stop procrastinating... the evil son of a bitch always wins.  i vow to take better care of myself b'coz my body is a temple. i vow not to work late nights UNLESS it is absolutely necessary b'coz a girl's still gotta get paid.  i vow not to sleep my weekends away only to complain sunday night that the weekend went by too quickly.  i vow to travel more even it if it's just an overnight stay in the city by the bay.  i vow to take more time off from work for vacations with the fam... even if its just a staycation...  i've never been a tourist in my own city.  i vow to make more time with my family and friends... dinner at your place or mine?  i vow to make more memories using my camera, filling another 87G of space on the backup server at home.  i vow to reunite myself with some of my favorite hobbies.  i vow to never let my life pass me by again.

let's dance 2011.  i'll lead.