Christmas break is ending today. School starts tomorrow for many students, the college starts next week. This has been a nice break but I’m happy to get back into our routine as always. I’m also excited that so far the weather for the next 10 days doesn’t have any extreme cold temperatures. It’s something I watch living here in Alaska in January and February. The longer we can go above zero the better!

I am excited for this upcoming year. Well, I am excited every year. I am excited for every day, week, month. Life has a lot of good in it even if we do have hiccups along the way, there’s always something to be grateful for, something good in every day. But, I have goals and milestones I am working toward and they excite me as well!

This year I have several larger items I am and will be working toward. As I have written a couple of months ago, I have another book in the works. Currently it is going through the editing process which will take probably another month or so based upon the timeline I was given. All in all the process will take about 9 months or so. There will be things along the way that I have to do, so I will keep you updated on all that as we go along. I’m excited to work through this process.

I have also been writing away for my other website and I am excited to launch that soon. I’m not exactly sure when, there are a couple of pieces of the back side of the website that I am still figuring out. There is so much to learn about building a website, and of course, I decided to try a different format than this current website, so a new learning curve. But this time the learning curve hasn’t been quite as steep as when I created this website, probably because I have the basics down now, it’s just learning the different plugins and how they work now.

Of course I am always working on my art. I have been debating on subscribing to a different online watercolor tutorial site, I haven’t decided yet. The one I currently subscribe to is $9/month, the new one would be $25/month but I have purchased a number of books from the new one and taken some free tutorials from her as well and I really like her style, so I’m still deciding. Either way, I will continue to paint as often as possible.

I also want to go ziplining this summer. Maybe for my birthday this fall. There is a place in Talkeetna that has a course (I don’t know if that’s what it’s called) that takes about 4 hours. This has been on my list several summers and each year other things come up either that needed the money or that needed the time that I had set aside, so it’s back on my list this year. I also need someone to go with me. My husband is usually pretty game to do most things, but he has already said he will not be joining me on this adventure. 

I have many more things on my list, big things and lots and lots of smaller ones. But this gives you an idea of where I’m headed. What kinds of goals and plans do you have this year?