Things I Love Thursday: A Very Merry New Year Edition

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A very merry and happy New Year to you all! I hope your evenings were filled with happiness and love–whether surrounded by strangers or friends or at home in front of Sex and the City (*cough*).

In addition to some January goals, I thought it would be most excellent to start off the New Year celebrating a heft list on Things I Love Thursday– including a great love of mine, New Year’s Resolutions!

♥ Morning Of Energy Does anyone else feel it? On New Year’s Day, in the morning, there is this sudden urge of energy that I can feel. I slept horribly, my body is in pain, and my head is congested, but I feel this positive energy all around me. It’s as though for one day, people believe in the change of a new year, and their energy is electric all around us.

♥ How I Met Your Mother I think this is, by far, one of the best comedies on television right now. I love the wit, the outrageous characters, and how I can still relate to the characters and what they are going through.

♥ Late Night Text Messaging I’ve been sick this past week with an uncomfortable head cold, and the Faux Beau has been up at his families. So it made for a bit of a lonely New Year’s Eve. All throughout the night though, he sent sweet texts about how he’d try to have fun (afterall, I wasn’t there) and cheering “Happy New Beer!” at 12:30.

♥ My Twitter Lovers Have I mentioned enough how much I love Twitter? I love that it’s help me build great relationships with amazing bloggers, artists, designers, and more. Interacting with these dears makes my days brighter & more lively!

♥ Smart Shopping Especially when it comes to fashionable shopping, I’m trying to reduce how much I buy even more, but to spend more money on greater pieces. During Thanksgiving I splurged on this Hayden Harnett colorblock tote (after receiving MUCH reassurance for my besties). At $250, it wasn’t a cheap splurge for me. But I know this bag will grow with me as my style changes, that I will use it a lot, and it is worth the expense. The same goes as I save up for Fluevog’s Inge boots, and other beautiful items I want in my wardrobe.

♥ Crafting time with Friends This past couple of weeks, I was fortunate enough to get to spend good time with lovely friends (who I don’t see often enough!), including the lovely Libby Bulloff! It was wonderful to be around people, have projects in hand, drink delicious homemade hot cocoa, and snark a bit, too ;)

♥ Being surrounded by wonderful people during the Holidays.

♥ Honorable Mentions: The Watchmen and a new 2009 Moleskine en route; silly cat antics; the generosity of friends, family, and strangers during the holidays; my mailman teasing me about the amount of packages I receive; my new girl crush, artist, designer, and uber fashionista Amelia Arsenic at Destroy X; the Obama Riding a Unicorn t-shirt; the “How to be a YP Rockstar” series (that begins today!) at Girl Meets Business.

♥ New Year’s Resolutions! ♥

I’ve always been prone to follow ideas for the new year, mottos, rather than specific task oriented goals. So in short, they would be:
♥ Think Positively
♥ Healthy Hit Points : to move my mind and body towards a healthy ideal, one that slipped poorly out of control during grad school.
♥ Living the Fairytale (Love Gala for that one!)
♥ Mischief Maker/Mischief Managed: to bring much more magic & mischief in to my life and the lives of others.
♥ Reclamation Proclamation : to reclaim the passions, visions, loves of my past, to reunite my mind, spirit, body, with my interests and needs.
♥ Live Consciously: to shop smart, to live smart, to reduce my consumption, and live a life that is fulfilling to me. To hell with naysayers.

I’m sure there is so much, much more that I can and should resolve to do in the upcoming new year, but I think this is an admirable start. There’s always the monthly goals to add new challenges and ideas ;)