2009 was the year I:
- stopped biting my fingernails, for good this time
- embraced social networking with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Ecademy and blogging
- confronted my fear of rejection
- fell in love with Twitter
- joined IComLeavWe
- started networking with intent
- committed to giving each of my children 20 minutes each of my undivided attention and company every day
- gave up professional haircolouring
- committed to my niche coaching practice in fertility matters
- mourned the demise of Borders UK
- joined Athena Network
- got my husband to build the children a treehouse by "hiring" someone else to do it
- didn't get to France once, even for a day-trip
- spent the sunniest week of the year in Wales with my family and our dear friends T.G., Sally, Freddy & Thomas Mittler
- helped my husband through the illness and death of his friend of 39 years, Stephen C
- gave my daughter the bedroom of her dreams
- got tired of chemically blocking migraines and sought a different way
- tried homeopathy, cranial osteopathy and hypnotherapy to no avail
- started the North London Miscarriage Support Group
- got together with my old friend Ricky Ross for the first time in 25 years
- used Facebook to reconnect with friends left behind but not forgotten
- lost my diamond engagement ring in May and found it in November
- went to my sister-in-law Jennifer's 50th birthday and her son Joel's engagement party
- celebrated my daughter's double-digits
- mourned the days when my son's obsession was with wild animals, dragons or superheroes and accepted his new obsession with aliens and monsters
- ice skated for the first time in 30 years
- truly saw myself as a businesswoman for the first time
- gave in to bifocals after 2 years of hunting for my reading glasses
- woke up to the roller-coaster of peri-menopause
- wrestled with the beast called people-pleasing and won
- wrote more than I read
- started reading my own childhood books to my son
- contacted and apologized to someone I hurt in high school
- got tired of my own cooking every night
- took office space in a clinic for my coaching practice
- explained puberty, sex and pregnancy to my daughter
2010 is the year I intend to:
- read all the books I bought in the Borders Closing-Down Sale
- finish the two paintings I started last summer and start another
- get a new computer
- get fit
- make the treehouse more user-friendly
- use our American Express reward points toward a vacation
- push my business as far as I can go
- see a film not made expressly for under 13's
- not buy another coffee mug
- celebrate menopause, finally. Please Gd, take my period and keep it
- improve my correspondence with old friends around the world. (No, I won't force them to subscribe to this blog)
- be published
- keep more organized accounts and paperwork for the business
- learn how to use my IPod
- end my self-imposed ban on salon haircuts and colour
- ask my husband to cook dinner more often
- go into London more often
- do a walk for charity
and so much more.
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