I am really hav­ing a hard time keep­ing up with this res­o­lu­tion to write more. I think it’s because I don’t have any­thing to really “talk” about lately.

I could talk about work, since that’s pretty much what my life revolves around lately. Except I really don’t like to dis­cuss work-​​related issues on here for fear that it might be found by a co-​​worker or a poten­tial employer who might not like what I have to say about my cur­rent employer. So talk­ing about work is a no-​​no, for me these days.

I could talk about what we did last week­end, but I fear that you may find it bor­ing and mun­dane. (Met up with a friend for din­ner on Sat­ur­day. Saw Les Mis on Sunday.)

I think part of this writ­ing funk is a result of a cou­ple things: 1) I’m sorely out of prac­tice, and 2) I’m just not exposed to a whole lot of hap­pen­ings around the world. Or at least I haven’t been in touch with the news lately.

Oh, I know about major events like the New­town shoot­ings. And Oscar nom­i­na­tions. And the big giant squid caught on video in the north­ern Pacific ocean. But to expand on how I feel about these things brings it back to how out of prac­tice I am in writing.

I’m still hope­ful that this exer­cise of writ­ing at least once a week will get me back into the swing of things. But then I seri­ously gotta think of top­ics to write about.

But for now, all I got is a post full of noth­ing. Kinda like a Sein­feld episode, except not as funny.

Let’s hope next week is better …

Well, I must admit I haven’t done my best in writ­ing on this blog for 2012. Hope­fully that will change in the upcom­ing year.

Yes­ter­day, Hubby & I met up for a late night din­ner with one of our good friends. All of us talked about how 2013 was around the cor­ner and how 2012 seemed to fly on by. There was so many things that we all wanted to do more of, but just didn’t have the time. For Hubby & our friend, it was draw­ing more. For me, it was writ­ing more. So then and there, we made our New Year’s res­o­lu­tion to do the things we wanted to do more of. This, of course, is my lame attempt at try­ing to write again.

I guess I could start off by telling you what has hap­pened in the last year.

In May, I started a new job that has me grounded in Detroit. No more trav­el­ing, no more work­ing at home. While I some­times miss the trav­el­ing part and the “work in my pajamas”-part, I know that being based in an office-​​setting is much bet­ter for my men­tal health. I real­ized I needed the con­stant con­nec­tion with co-​​workers that you just don’t get when being an inde­pen­dent worker as I was in the pre­vi­ous posi­tion. At least I can say that I tried the “con­sul­tant” role and it just wasn’t for me … at least at this time in my life.

This new job is a chal­leng­ing one. I’m back in a lead­er­ship role, this time as a man­ager of over 4 dif­fer­ent areas. There are days that I feel that I’ve got my role down pat. Then there are the days where I feel I’ve lost my grip on real­ity. It’s at those times that I turn to Hubby to help ground me and keep me from fly­ing off the deep end. He’s good to me like that.

In July, I turned 40 years old. As expected, noth­ing really changed overnight, except now I’m more acutely aware that I’m just not as spry as I used to be. My SIL (whose birth­day is 4 days before mine) and I did cel­e­brate our 40^th by throw­ing our­selves a pic­nic. Lot’s of fam­ily and friends showed up, so it was a great time full of laugh­ter and fun.

At the end of Octo­ber, I trav­eled to New York to be a part of my cousin’s “Hal­loweek­end” wed­ding. She had some pretty cool details that made the wed­ding goth-​​like. It also helped that the wed­ding wasn’t that far from the town of Sleepy Hol­low! The high­light of the wed­ding for me was being able to spend time with my Mom’s side of the fam­ily. That, and spend­ing time with my niece, Emilia, whose whole fam­ily made it to the wed­ding so that “Mia” could be a flower girl.

Get­ting out of New York actu­ally proved to be quite excit­ing as well. Super­storm Sandy threat­ened to ruin the bride’s day, but it held off until the next night. How­ever, that did cause a lot of flight can­cel­la­tions, includ­ing ours. This meant we had to drive all the way back to Detroit in a rental car in order to make it to work the next day. Luck­ily, Delta refunded us our return trip, so we didn’t lose out on too much.

The rest of the year went by pretty fast; Thanks­giv­ing, Dad’s anniver­sary, Christ­mas. Mom spent Christ­mas out in Dal­las with Dr. Bro, Dr. SIL and Mia (jeal­ous!). The week­end before Christ­mas, Bobby & I got to spend time with Dad’s side of the fam­ily, espe­cially one of my cousins and her fam­ily from Lon­don, Ontario. It was a fun Sat­ur­day night full of play­ing with the kids, poker and beer pong with our Uncle.

Yes, you read that right. Beer pong with our Uncle. All I have to say is that, even though the girls lost against the guys … that was prob­a­bly the most fun I’ve had in a long time! (But, boy did I pay for it the next day … )

And now it’s almost New Year’s Day. I can’t believe the year has gone by so quickly. As I said, my New Year’s res­o­lu­tion is to write more, and I’m hop­ing that the week­ends give me enough time to write what I want to write. And not sound as lame as I do right now. Prac­tice makes per­fect, right?