Some kind of New Year resolutions

Happy New Year of 2013! I have made some New Year resolutions that I will do my very best to achieve. 

1. I need to loose a couple of kilos and get rid of my sweet tooth. Christmas time and Beach season is not a successful combo. No chocolate, cakes and cookies during the week. I will only drink Coca Cola Zero on the weekend. And just so that I know: the weekend does not end on Monday and start again on Wednesday. Weekend is Friday evening until Sunday evening. 

2. I will not shop any new clothes, shoes or handbags during 2013 unless I really need it, like gloves when it’s getting cold outside. I will instead start using all my clothes and shoes and not save them for the future. Who knows what’s waiting around the corner? I’d rather meet my future in a pair of Jimmy Choos than a pair of Hawaianas. 

3. I will tell the people in my life as often as I can how fantastic and wonderful they are, how much they mean to me and that I love them. I tell my Husband and our Daughters every day how special they are and how much I love them. I will now extend my Declaration of Love to more people and let them know how happy I am that they are in my life. 

4. I will keep in mind that I shouldn’t worry about people from the past, there’s a reason they didn’t make it into my future. What I mean, I’m not going to think another minute about the simpeltons I’ve had the bad fortune of meeting over the years. As an expatriate you meet people you wouldn’t have met otherwise, for better and for worse. Notorious liars, notorious womanizers and their notoriously jealous women, notorious cheaters, notorious free-loaders; I’ve met them all and they have no place in our life. 

This list of Promises to Self should be easy to live up to and by doing so, the year of 2013 has every possibility to be a fantastic year. I already have the main ingredients; people I love, good food and a beach. I intend to make the most of it!