The Year of Projects

No resolutions for me this year, I always seem to break them. Instead, this year, I will have goals and projects. My One Little Word for the new year is finance. I've built up some bad credit in the past, and my goals this year are to eliminate most of my debt and to up my credit score. I also have a goal to find a stable job that I will stay at for at least a year. My goals for this year are based on preparing for the future: fixing my credit, getting rid of debt, finding a stable job, investing for the future, and going back to college, among others.

Other than that goal, I have a bunch of projects that I would like to complete this year. This year is gonna have a lot of reflections on my inner self. All of these projects will eventually end up in a scrapbook, but for now, most of them are about looking inside of my self and journaling, a lot. This year really is about me. I'm trying to leave the nest, for good this time. I don't have any kids, no husband, no boyfriend, no attachments. This is the perfect year to focus on me. I also know that I've been a horrible blogger. Hopefully all of these projects will keep my blog updated. Sorry if none of these posts are useful to you other than reading up on my life. This blog is really just going to be a reflection of my life. Here is a list of the projects that I will be joining this year - as of right now. Some are linked to homepages..

• Project 365 - not exactly sure where this started, so there's no link for it. I tried to start this for 2010, but lost interest by Feb. Hopefully this year will be different. I have simpler goals for this year for this project.
• Day Zero Project - I started this in the past, back in 2009. I want to re-start this challenge, with new goals and new dates. When I started this project my goals weren't really important and some of them I lost interest in.
• Live a Better Life in 30 Days Challenge (30DLBL) - I just going to start this is December, but I decided to wait for the new year.
• Project: Love, Me - This is my only project that will focus a lot of scrapbooking. But it would work for anybody, not just scrapbookers. I just choose to put more scrapbooking detail into this one than the rest.

Let's start this new year with a bang! :]

One Little Word 2010

I absolutely love visiting Ali Edwards' Blog. Her site gives me so much inspiration for my life, especially scrapping and projects. One thing I've decided to do is One Little Word. I won't go into much detail but Ali explains it perfectly here and here. The idea is to choose one word that you will stand by for the whole year. Even though I've only stumbled upon this with only two months left in the year, I decided to start anyway. I really didn't want to wait two months just so I can start something in the beginning of the year. So for the rest of this year, I've decided to choose the word Connect.

One thing I've seemed to be lacking lately is connection. This goes for online communities as well as in person. I hope to blog more, chat more, comment more, email more, talk more.. anything. I hope to once again Connect with the rest of the world. What is your word for this year?

It's Digital Scrapbooking Day!

Happy DSD everyone! I know I'm a little bit late to jumpstart the festivities but I just wanted to let everyone know about a ScrapMatters sale going on this weekend.. and even longer! Have fun shopping! :]