I’m not really superstitious.
But I like that quote that says, show me how you spend your day and I’ll show you how you spend your life.
Based on that, I like to believe that how I spent the first day of the New Year would help me set the tone for my coming year.
- Friends & Love
In the very first minutes of January 1st, 2013, I toasted in the New Year surrounded by some of my closest friends and my lifetime partner, Mr. Kevin Redl.
- Great Coffee, Writing and Good Food
In the morning, Kevin made me a perfect cappuccino. I wrote in my journal and then ate a delicious breakfast of raspberries and yogurt along with our new favourite Ukrainian rye bread toasted to cracking perfection and smeared with crunchy peanut butter and cherry jam.
- Fitness
I went down to our apartment’s gym and did some weights and a little stretching routine.
- Cleanliness & Organization & Travel
We both cleared and cleaned and organized the apartment, packed our bags and started our drive to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; a distance of about 1600 kilometres.
- Family & Love
In Kelowa, we stopped and spent the evening sharing a fabulous dinner with family.
And now I’m writing this as we travel through the Rocky Mountains. So far the roads are bare and dry & the scenery spectacular. (There was one tiny glitch…we stopped at Tim Horton’s for a quick lunch and my pannini was a sad and lukewarm affair. Thank goodness today was the 2nd! Imagine if I’d done that yesterday?? Clearly, I could have jinxed my entire year.)
Based on my little totemic ritual. My upcoming year is obviously going to be stellar.
Thanks to this system, I now know that 2013 will be filled with friends, love, good coffee, writing, healthy/tasty food and fitness. Our home will be clean and organized and our lives will include family, travel, and most of all…love.
Because we all know that the greatest of these is always and forevermore, love.
Hey I think that’s Fisher Peak, the up up up up up up mountain. Yes I am too excited about a fresh year. Love rules!
My first day was spent at the end of a week with family and friends at Whistler. We were 3 couples who’ve celebrated the New Year together at least 42 times and joined this year by two more generations (3 gorgeous grandchildren)! One night we had 21 at the dinner table(s). The weather was ideal with lots of new snow at night and sun each day. The road was bare and clear both ways with the sun gleaming on the snow-capped mountains. Good friends, good food and really good times!
Wow Martha! 42 different New Years. Congratulations! That’s an incredible accomplishment.
I’d say you definitely started the New Year right. What a great tradition in such a fantastic location.
With a start like that it is quite obvious that you’re going to have a fabulous year!
Colleen, I love the photo. You are really lucky to be living in such a beautiful country, so vast, with snowy mountains around. I am envious ….
I feel that you have started the year on the right footing. It is going to be stellar.
Hi Catherine, I’m glad you liked the mountain photo. Going through the Rockies never ceases to amaze me too. It’s very humbling to be dwarfed by such mass.
The prairies have their own beauty too. The flat sea of snow, infinitely stretching off in every direction, inspires another kind of awe.
My 1st day was waking up early at Kinga’s, and immediately writing a 1st paragraph for a new chapter, then making brunch with Kinga for our assembled families including Harvey Wallbangers and Eggs Bennie (I was in charge of the Hollandaise). Much chat, and then ending the evening with a crazy word play game with Katherine, Peter, Vanessa, Sabrina & Micah & Kinga. Laughing till we could hardly sit up – especially the one who is weeks away from giving birth. If your theory holds, this should be a totally stellar year. Creativity, great food, friends & family, intellectual challenge (I forgot to mention the ideas in Lyric Philosophy by Jan Zwickey) & an insane amount of laughter.
IF?
Of course my theory holds. Never doubt!
The trick with it is to always focus on the moments that are magic while choosing to ignore any of life’s glitches that don’t conform to the overarching theory.
Some call this denial. I call it optimism (with perhaps a soupçon of that ‘D’ word).
Oh, I do wish I’d known about this theory sooner! I guess it’s not so bad, though. I spent my day with family working on a creative project for my daughter. Good homemade food – cooked by my husband! Foretells a reasonably good year.
Sharry, the beautiful thing about my theory is you can pick ANY day you want to start 🙂
Though I’d suggest that your day sounds pretty much right on track for a great year…being creative with your daughter and having food cooked by your husband ranks right up there!
Oh…and I might have glossed over the less-than-perfect bits of the day…it’s called focusing on what you want!