What are your resolutions?

Ok Friends we're a month into 2010, long enough to have given up on the resolutions that wouldn't work and make the ones you are really going to try to keep. Let's keep the lists short since having too many goals that don't get met can only lead to disappointment. I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours?

1. Lose 10 pounds.
Last year I wanted to lose 10 pounds. At my physical last month I discovered I had actually gained 10 lbs since the previous visit the year earlier. Ugh. Well, the appointment was the Monday following Thanksgiving, so not all of those 10 lbs are permanent! Right? This year I am not saying that I will lose 20 lbs because let's face it, that will never happen. But I would like to lose those 10 lbs!

2. Do not let my kids' fighting drive me crazy.
They are boys. They interact like boys. They are rough and fight with each other. And I am ok with that. Repeat, I am ok with that. (OK, I'm going to need a lot of meditational breathing to get through this one).

3. No new yarn purchases unless specifically intended for a project that will begin imminently!
I think we all make these kind of resolutions at one point or another. But I have a lot of one and two skeins of wool that I will be working on using up. Purse designs are churning up above. One exception from this resolution will be recycling yarn from sweaters. I was warned that I would become addicted. While not (yet) addicted, recycling has benefits! It is lots of fun, I can do it with the kidsters in the room (they like to help!), and I seem to find very nice stuff at amazing prices lately! I wonder if I will make a new "business" out of it (smirk).

Commitment issues

This happens to me every time I finish a project. I can't decide what to make next. It's not that I don't have a few things in mind, it's just that I can't seem to commit. I only knit for such a short time each day so I guess that I want is...
I want a project that will be fun.
I want a project that will be exciting.
I want a project that will be challenging.
I want a project that will make me stop hoarding my yarn!
BINGO! We have a winner.
Yup, there it is folks. Why is it so hard to pull a yarn out of storage and commit it to a project? It's certainly not doing any good sitting in the bin in the back room. I mean, it is lovely and nice to look inside and see all the pretty colors pooled together. But it's not like the bins are going to get together one day and say "Hey, look what we decided to make for you today!". No, the only way something is going to get knit is if I go and do it myself. I have to bite the bullet and pick a yarn, or two, or three, pick a project, stick them together and just do it.
Oh, this all sounds so great and self-helpy. I hope I can really do it.
But not yet, I have some curtains to make for a certain 12 year old niece first.

Yarn freeze

It's kind of like a brain freeze of yarn. I can't decide what to cast on next. Oh sure I have a lot of things in my queue. And plenty of yarn to do them with (like that even needs to be said). But I want to get back to knitting purses. Ok, so do it, right? Well, I've managed to make some cold weather gear for both kidsters and myself (all on my ravelry projects page). Hubster got a new coat and hasn't benefited from any coordinated knitting yet. Hmmm...

Ok, here's the real issue...
I'm a monogamous knitter. Is that even possible? Most people I hear from have three, four, even a dozen or more projects going at once. Not me. When you only get about an hour, two if I'm really having a lucky day, then you want to make it count right?