The Skinny on Me

I’m thinking about starting yet another blog. No, not another tumblr and not another weight loss blog, but rather my own happiness project of sorts.

As I mentioned, yesterday, I began reading The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. Lately, I’ve also been following After the Artist’s Way, a blog by Janice MacLeod. In her blog, she originally made the resolution to continue with morning pages (see The Artist’s Way for more info) for an entire year. After the year, she’d managed to remove a lot of the sources of strife in her life. She quit her job. She got rid of unnecessary weight in her life. She began to create more art. She made plans to travel around the world.

For a while, I’ve known I’m not happy. For a while, I’ve been teetering on the edge of self-diagnosing myself with depression. That needs to change. I need to start seeing all the joy there is in life. I need to stop clinging to the couch all day because I’m lonely. I need to become the go-getter that I claim to be in job interviews.

With this new blog, I hope to chronicle my adventures as I fulfill my new year’s resolutions, try new things and most importantly, find out what makes me happy. What are my new year’s resolutions, you ask? Well, in honor of it being 2012, I have twelve:

• Run a half-marathon (April 1)
• Run a marathon (October 7)
• Get another tattoo
• Get a job
• Travel internationally
• Make bad decisions*
• Begin learning French
• Complete 52 weeks at bars (it’s a Foursquare thing)
• Take a photography course
• Take a cooking course
• Try out at least 52 new recipes (one a week)
• Fall in “like” with myself (AKA my own project happiness)

* Make bad decisions — For those of you slightly curious about this resolutions, let me share some light on it. Sometimes, doing the “right” thing can be boring or tedious. Sometimes, doing the “wrong” thing is actually the “right” thing for a completely different reason. No, I will not be robbing any banks or anything like that. Instead, I won’t always say “no” to the extra round of drinks or to making out with cute guy at the bar. Hopefully, that makes a little more sense.

As I start my project, I invite you to come along. It’s 2012. It very well may be the last year on Earth. Why waste it being unhappy and/or depressed?