resolution number one.

each year when new years eve rolls around and everyone starts throwing out the question, "what are going to do for new years?" and the even more feared, "what are your resolutions?" i bunker down in my apartment, turn off the lights, and go to sleep shockingly sober and before 10 o'clock.

this year, call me crazy, i stayed up until 12:01AM, had a few drinks, AND throwing all caution to the wind made a few resolutions, most of which i am not going to share with you (if i don't live up to them no one will ever know and me? well, i'll just revert back to my old ways swearing off resolutions because i am fine just the way i am and i don't need a new calendar year to tell me to change thankyouverymuch. win, win).

alright, i'll throw you a bone. i'll tell you one; i am going to be a more* grateful person in 2011. in fact, i'm even going to go as far as keeping a gratitude journal as oprah suggested way back in, i don't know, 1996. and while i intended to share with you the list's highlights at the months' end the past four days have been filled with so many wonderful things i thought, "why the heck not fill you in now?" so here it goes.

i am grateful for...

• the delectable (i mean really f*cking good) duck i made on new years eve


• the car jason bought me which finally made an appearance in our lives


• waking up without a hangover


• fireplaces


• finding flower girl dresses for $30 at the crewcuts factory outlet when what you were really suppose to be looking for was grown-up interview clothes


• naps


• jason's understanding of my award winning mood swings (ok, i lied. i've never won an award for being an impractical b*tch, but i so could, if there was such a thing.)


• naps


• clementine season (seriously, i've put down roughly half a carton in the past two days alone.)


• soft pretzels with tostidos queso dip (obviously eating healthy didn't make the resolution list.)


• kisses on the arm


• late july organic cookies with vanilla bean/green tea filling (so i'm just going to wrap up this whole fat girl category up by saying i am VERY grateful for food in general.)


• AND plane tickets to Italy for our honeymoon. europe in the spring - to quote one of the least grateful (and most hungry) person i've ever seen on tv, "i.die.

what are you grateful for? and hey, what are your resolutions*?

*gasp, ew, pretend i didn't ask that - you are fine just the way you are.