My theme for 2009 is: Priority.

I’m sick of doing pointless things, and wasting time. This year I am taking life seriously, and making the most of the time I have. It also involves segregating certain aspects of life- not letting work take up all my time, and not letting the internet take too much time either.

1. Focus on God. I probably say this every year, but I am serious about it now. Luke and I are going on a pilgrimage to Israel in less then two weeks, which will be a great kick start to the year.

2. Love. Spend more time with Luke, just us, spend time with family, and making sure I let people know that I love them. Letting LOVE exude from my character, and showing love even to those people who annoy me. I need to make love a priority in life.

Also, to let work be work and life be life. I work at my parent’s house, so it’s really quite hard to sometimes just ‘hang out’, and it’s easy, because it’s so close, to just spend lots of time there working, and not enough time with Luke.

3. Tell the truth. I like to make stuff up, so this year I’m going to make sure I always tell the truth, even when I’ve done the wrong thing.

4. Be more involved online. I want to spend more time networking, both with my eLearning work, and my personal stuff. This means making the effort to comment on more blogs, maintain my ela blog, bookmark in delicious, post photos to flickr and deviant art, and stay active in twitter, and my personal blogging. I’d also like to make this blog reflect more a ‘whole’ of me- not just the personal side of me.

I’m making a good start to it by being involved in the group twitter365 on flickr.

5. Be healthier. Loose some weight, eat whole foods, exercise regularly, etc. etc. I’m going to go for walks with Pepper, and if I don’t do that, then spend some time on the wii fit. This last month I’ve actually been a lot better at it, so here’s hoping that January is better still!

6. Focus of photography. I’ve found a great site that gives you assignments every week, so I’m going to try to be part of that more, and really learn more about how to increase my skills and knowledge, and learn some new techniques. This means being a regular on Deviant Art, and learning from my photographer friends, like Cam.

So those are my main goals. This year I hope to update monthly on how they’re going, and review them. I also want to spend time doing more crafts and painting if I get the chance, and some more money.

In 2008 I was…

a prac teacher

on a mini blog hiatus

building a house

moving

celebrating

an online shopper

a movie editor

a married woman

finding myself

filling new shoes

a uni graduate

tired

suprised

a twitter addict

a facebook addict

an employee

a wife

unemployed

stalked

a leader

irritated

annoying

supported

lavished

blessed

an artist

a photographer

uncertain

a student

a learner

an internet junkie

a bridesmaid

and so much more…

I think all the kids had a good time. My brother, Amon, was there (the kid with his head down in the picture), and I really liked spending that time with him.

I didn’t have to do ALL the cooking… Kim was a great help leading the boys through the pancake making process… Yes, they used their hands, yes everyone ate them, and yes, they were good!

They had to do challenges, and we also had a speaker who I think really helped out a lot of the kids with some of the issues they had going on. I felt like I learnt a lot as well, so that’s always a good thing!

If I’m going to be completely honest with you, then I’ll tell you that I wasn’t 100% looking forward to camp. But, I would definitely do it again, now that I’ve done it and realise that it’s a really great time to have fun, learn, teach, and just be an example of a ‘regular christian person’ whatever that is.