Anticipate Good Times, Come On!

I tried to begin this post and came up with writer’s block. I know I have reflections on this past year, but I cannot seem to drudge them up. Each attempt brings some clichéd intro with a blinking cursor lingering at the end. One thing I know is that this has been the year of the Debbie Downer, Negative Nancy, Pessimistic Pat, or whatever of moniker you fancy; pick one, I have been them all at some point this year. That reign is coming to an end.

I don’t know when it happened, but somewhere in the course of the year I gave up. Maybe fizzled out is a more appropriate term. I just got tired. (Random aside: I never want to hear someone say, “Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired?” ever again!) Those last couple of years in KY really sucked the life out of me, and I took too much of that emptiness with me to NC and brought it right on to GA. There was an oppression there (spiritual and otherwise) that latched on and has been hard to shake off, and I hadn’t had enough downtime to really feel the weight of it.

This Christmas break has been good. Spending time with family, reconnecting with old friends, and making new ones has revitalized me. I have been reminded that I am no longer in that place (literally and figuratively), and a familiar feeling has found its way back to me. So, I am looking forward to a new year. This is the year of rejuvenation and I welcome it with open arms!!

Things I am looking forward to next year:
• Relationship renewal: God, Friends, Family (most of which has begun already)
• Those items I have pegged to do on my 101 list in 2011 (noted to the right)
• The return of optimism
• Dancing! (always)
• Writing
• Purposeful living

Dare I say, this is the year of Gregarious Ginny? Okay maybe that’s reaching too much. Maybe the year of Genial Ginny is more apt (don’t judge, “G” doesn’t have the best adjectives)!