Christmas was pretty mellow and dramaless. Thank God. I dread Thanksgiving and Christmas because too much can go wrong. I am an only child who is as different from my parents as I can be. My parents are also so unalike that they divorced when I was 7. Through my 33 years of being on this planet, one thing I learned for sure is to bite my tongue.

It is almost 2005 and I've been doing the usual assessing that most people do around this time. I also feel a little extra pressure because my birthday is coming up in just a little over a month. There's been the mad dash to organize the piles in my home and head. I made a deadline to try to finish some of the de-piling by the end of the year but who knows if I'll make it. Especially if I'm here on the internet writing in my blog and compulsively checking my email!

I made this list inspired by an entry by Andrea of Superhero Designs. She writes about creating intentions and the Mondo Beyondo list which is a list of the bigger than big dreams that you have. So here is my list. Small intentions mixed in with big dreams. I'm calling out...I'm throwing out some stardust to the universe in the hopes of turning them into twinkling little stars.

I intend to:

-Show the people in my life how much I love them.
-Practice kindness to strangers.
-Say hello to strangers in a confident way.
-Organize my life and keep it that way.
-Drink more water.
-Breathe more deeply.
-Exercise regularly.
-Have less distraction/procrastination time.
-Wake up earlier.
-Get a commercial agent.
-Land a national commercial so that the money can allow me to pursue my passions more easily.
-Become a talented actress. Acting was once a passion that I let go of because I listened to too many people.
-Get a theatrical agent and land "real roles".
-Continue photographing and working with mixed media.
-Break new ground in my visual work.
-Get a gallery show/find representation.

May you all have wonderful 2005 and may your dreams, big and small, come true!