A Promise to My Friends

Have you ever noticed that it is easier to make good on a promise to a friend than it is to make good on a promise to yourself? Is that a good trait or bad? Is it a woman thing or not?

Either way, that isn't really the subject of this post...

I promised at least one friend and received counseling from another about making these entries for my memoirs. And funny thing, I told a third friend just this afternoon that I don't believe in making new year's resolutions. Because I believe they are done with little thought and usually wind up making us feel like failures. So why bother, I can do that any time of the year.

However, against my better judgement, I have now found myself up to 3 New Year's Resolutions with one day left to go. So here they are...

Diane's 2008 Resolutions

1. To begin earnestly making attempts to date, with the idea being that I will stop getting hung up on guys who pay no attention to me.

2. To make daily journal entries on my blog site, even if it's just 30 minutes a day (right Carrie?). Therefore setting me up to actually compile and complete my memoirs.

3. To read daily in books or articles, but to actually practice my speed reading techniques that I have been dying to try out.

So starting today, December 30, 2007, the second to the last day of this miserable, pathetic year in my life, I will be recording my daily journals, and or catching up my journals from this past year. However you choose to look at it, I will be forcing myself to do something that I love and that I owe to myself, but only because my friends made me do it.

Funny how peer pressure works sometimes. BTW, I have wonderful friends.