no good deed/goals vs. resolutions

    My sweet hubby. I asked him to check to see if the clothes in the dryer were dry. Turned out my clothes were in the washer and needed to be put into the dryer. So, of course, he did that instead. Bless his little heart.
    When I heard the buzzer, and headed to the laundry room, he casually told me that he only put HALF of the clothes in because the dryer looked too full. YIKES!! I am waiting for my clothes to be done to GO TO BED. I am not just physically tired but am mentally and emotionally weary, and have been staying up a little later every night for the past week. But tomorrow I go back to work and that means getting up at 530am.
    So, now I am waiting for the second HALF of my load of wash to finish drying . . .
    Guess I should pony-up and write out my resolutions for 2007. Before I do that, I'll take a peek back in blog-o-sphere and see what I've resolved in the past... and with apologies to Rissa (whom I told I alway post resolutions on 01/01 not 12/31), I did post these on 12/31/2003 (but re-resolved and re-posted 01/01/2005):

(1) to remember birthdays ON-TIME
(2) to use my creative skills to give tangible results to those around me
(3) to delve deeper into my personal spirituality in order to attain resolution, for myself at least, over several personal situations
(4) to be content -- always my primary goal
Four is enough, I think: "Four has long been a number of completion, stability and predictability, as well as the representation of all earthly things."

And as I posted already, in January 2006 I didn't really make resolutions:

I read somewhere that the urgent things of life keep us from doing the important things. If I was going to make a resolution for 2006 it would be that I would make time for the important things.

    I still don't do well at doing things on time, whether it is birthdays, bills, or papers; meals, medicine, or chores.
    I still want to make things for people I love that they will use and love and appreciate -- yeah, I know. I'm expecting a lot from them.
    I still am deepening my personal spirituality, but for a variety of purposes.
    And living contentedly is still my primary goal.
    Perhaps the whole idea of making resolutions is to make one reflect, to make one ponder what it truly important in life. That is, if one will take time to reflect and ponder in the first place. People who do this daily, don't need a special time to do so. I think I like to do it just as an affirmation of who I am and what is important to me.

    The dryer is buzzing at me. Time to fold the clothes and go to bed--and bless his heart! Hubby brought them out for me to fold--I'm already an hour later than I wanted to be, and quarter hour later than is my usual bedtime. Fortunately, I do have the option of going to work a little later tomorrow.
Blessings to all!