Haiku 2

I have quite enjoyed my Christmas Haiku series and I have decided I'll continue with the project. Quietly I wonder if I can write one every day for a year so I'll just start out writing and numbering and we'll see how far I get.

The plan is to write and set them on automatic posting so my usual attempts to answer all comments before making a new post won't work, it doesn't mean I 'm ignoring you though!

Feathered rainbows

chatter, shreik, cheep and play

shredding pink blossoms

Beauty

steamy new years eve

young lovers making pasta

fans whir, auld lang syne 

Haiku

Hardest year ending
Hope for better sustaining
Rainbows of the mind

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

i tried to come up with 10 notable happenings for myself or my family this past year. i didn't make it, which probably means i should be getting out of the comfort zone a bit more in 2010. here are my picks nevertheless:

1. early in the new year we farewelled our gorgeous bunny anzac. it was agonising to see him sick and making the fateful decision was awful but his eventual end was peaceful and his farewell was tender
   
2. i sent my first born overseas on a school trip. never before had he been so far away or for so long. i think it was a wonderful experience for him and it led to his first girlfriend.
3. that might make me a first time mother-in-law
4. we welcomed bella bunny as well as friendly rodents george and frank


5. the family suffered the great flu of 2009. i escaped with a mild dose but i nursed some very sick kids


6. i spent a night in hospital for the first time in ten years and had my first antibiotics in ten years. then i took enough to last the next twenty.


7. a family trip to theme park central, the gold coast, reminded me how much i hate theme parks


8. i went on my second ever girls weekend away


9. and.......TA DAHHH!!

made my first ever video upload.

this is an unscripted greeting

My wish for you is that 2010 is more than you hope for

HAPPY NEW YEAR

enormous thanks to my liam for his technical expertise on this one, you didnt think i did it, did you?

Not New Years Resolutions

Over the last couple of days I have read any number of pieces about New Year.
I can't remember the sources and have no intention of backtracking to find them but I want to paraphrase my favourite comments.
One said simply that we should think of goals rather than resolutions and I agree...a broken resolution is quickly discarded but a goal allows us to fall off the wagon and then resume the quest.
The other said that resolutions are based in guilt. It said something along the lines that if we vow to become kinder, were we unkind to begin with? The writer finished by saying that he intended to do the same in 2008 as he did in 2007.
If you're happy with who you are and what you do New Year shouldn't require a list of resolutions, so I liked his comments. Having said that, I guess it is a good time to reflect on new or changing goals.
I have been thinking of a couple of things I might change so even though I'm not so resolute I'll put them here for posterity and my readers (are you there?) can keep me accountable....or I'll delete the post and forget it :)

• I hope to buy fair trade coffee more often than not
• same with chocolate
• It would be good eat vegetarian one day a week

I also hope to add labels to my posts....I didn't think it was important but I have realised how helpful they are to new readers, so I might make a start in anticipation of becoming a world famous blogger with thousands of new readers :)