2013: here I come!

I made a big mistake in agreeing to work today -- December 31st, 2012.  What I really wish I were going to do, instead of heading to my soon-to-be-old job and working in the quiet of an empty, holiday office, is sitting with my Leonie Dawson 2013 Incredible Life planner and my 2012 black Moleskine and my new 2013 blue Ecosystem planner and dreaming about the coming year.

After Christmas, this is my most favorite time of the year: this Resolution time, this Plan-ful time.

I especially want to continue combing through my 2012 notebook, a notebook I love so much with its great stickers on the front -- from Caluvfornia and Semi-Rad -- before I stow it on the shelf above my desk with its brethren, marking out another year of my life.  

I'd be really happy to stay home and keep working my way through my 2013 Incredible Life planner, a first for me.  Every other year I've set plans just on my own, without any prompts creating my own little categories (see Geek With a Notebook).  This year I'm having so much fun working from Leonie's colorful pages, going deeper, taking longer, dreaming bigger.

This is also my first year of using a so-pretty blue Ecosystem planner.  Given the Prop 65 warning on the Moleskines,* I thought it was time to give a different, eco option a whirl.  We'll see how it goes.  So far, the pages are blank, the slate clean. But not for long.

No matter what, there is no doubt in my mind:

2013 is going to be awesome.

There's so much to look forward to: a weekend away with girlfriends to celebrate my massive milestone of turning FIFTY (I know: Fuck!  Fifty!!), the end of a so-so ho-hum job and the start of something new and exciting, the inauguration of this year's theme (more on that in January).

I'm a driver. I'm a winner. Things are gonna change, I can feel it.

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* Please note that as it turns out, Moleskine removed the PVC from its notebooks in August 2010, so that they no longer warrant a Prop 65 warning.  STILL, I am very happy to be using the Ecosystem planner this year -- 100% post-consumer recycled paper and 100% made in USA.