New Day, New Month, New Year!!

It's a great morning. I've been working (yes, my paid job) in my PJs from my desk for a while. The sun has broken through the clouds and it's absolutely gorgeous outside, some blue skies/clouds w/the snow sparkling under the heavenly gas ball.

I read the Mormon Times that comes out on Thursday morning, a weekly section of the newspaper for the past couple months, and there was a section about blogs. I found out that blog is short for Weblog and is a site containing an online personal journal with reflections, insights and comments. My "reflections, insights and comments" tend to run in the 'hand-over-the-mouth boring level,' as I am no writer, definitely not, but then I'm writing for me, me alone, no one else really, although followers or peripheral gleanings by others are an enjoyment to me.

There was an article in the Mormon Times on Resolutions, of course, being January 1. Have I set any? No. Will I? Most certainly, but I need to think first. The article mentions the acronym SMART for specific, measurable, ambitious, realistic and timebound, giving the example from Pres. Hinckley a few years ago to read the BofM, which fit the criteria for a SMART goal. Something to think about.

Read somewhere recently, maybe even this morning (my memory is not so sharp anymore) about stretching oneself by reading something that makes you think, stretches your mental ability. I'll have to find that article and later insert. Anyway, I started a new book last night called Angle of Repose (a suggested read from the library list). After a few pages, I read about the author, a teacher of writing at Stanford, Harvard, other prestigious names, who wrote this book decades ago and for which he received the Pulitzer. Anyway, it's not an easy read, but I was loving his working of words. Had to stop several times and re-read. I was thinking about putting the book aside and starting another one (sometimes I have several books going at the same time), but now I'm going to rethink about stretching myself. Just finished reading Host, written by Stephanie Meyer of Twilight phenom. I liked this book a lot, because it was written for adults and it was not obvious where the ending was going, a nice treat. Also, I watched a "chick flick" yesterday and liked it also a lot. Bonneville, about three friends who end up on an adverturous road trip. Kind of made me want to take a road trip, although I related most w/the character played by Joan Allen (I think that's her name). Watch the movie and you'll understand.

Hubby is up and TV is on, thus ends the morning quiet, although it's getting closer to noon. I'm smiling--twill be a good day.