Here....we....go!

Watch out 2008! I am ready to ATTACK!!!!

So far, the first three days of the New Year have been pretty good. Nothing bad, nothing great and that's fine with me. It's been a simple and even-tempered start to what I know will be a crazy and busy year. But, I AM READY!!!

It seems–as I talk to more and more people–that it's a good thing 2007 is over. As far as I am concerned, good riddance and see-ya-later! It's not that is was a terrible year, there were good things. There were all the firsts with Mikey - first New Years, first Valentine's, first Birthday, first vacation..the list goes on. Then, there were a couple of GREAT things - the PUGGIES!!!! It was just the not-so-good things that made me wish for a "life fast-forward" button just to get through the bad to get to the good. But, I dove in and got'er done.

Those few good things made the year more than bearable, and I am thankful for that. It was the other eight-hundered-thousand not so good things that make me glad it is a new year!!! Welcome 2008!

Should be an interesting year. I am willing it to be a good year. I am shaking of the 2007 blahs and starting fresh and new. I already have freelance work coming out of my ears...which may sound stressful, but it is a really good thing. Maybe someday I will work out of my house on projects I love doing - something I only ever dreamed about, but could possibly become a reality. It's funny how I kept hoping and wishing for a "normal" life - a life without stress, chaos and craziness. Then, the other day, I came across the perfect quote:

"Normal is just a setting on a dryer."

Couldn't have said it better. There isn't a "normal". I can't be "normal" and I don't want to be "normal". Normal is just boring. Say it enough times...normal.....normal....normal....is doesn't even SOUND good. So, instead of striving for normal, I will stay different and a little off and strive for happiness and contentment, love and passion, and most of all a life that feeds my soul.

If I will it, it will come.

Happy New Year!!!