…in 2010.

2010 always seems like one of those fake movie years, like some random future date at which we will never arrive.  Welp, here we are.

I could go on with some story about why I abandoned my dear Front Porch visitors, but I’ll save you the tales and I’ll hope that you forgive my absence and stick around a while anyway.  I’ve got some exciting things planned for this year, some of which I hope to share with you very soon.

For now, I’ll just tell you a little about coming up with a theme for this year.  I got the idea from my very clever and beautiful friend, R.Z. who picks a theme for each year and strives toward that theme in various areas of her life.  I really liked the idea and felt like it might help me accomplish the various goals and REsolutions with which I continue to struggle.

So my theme for this year is “Maintaining.”  Frankly, I stink at it.  Oh I’m good for a few days, a week or too, but most of the time I am a hopelessly chronic procrastinator.

I spent the better portion of the first three days of this year getting my home life under control: cleaning (I mean serious cleaning including unpacking boxes I still had piled around from my move…three months ago!), sorting, and putting away.  The joy is now I have a lovely clean apartment AND a wonderful craft/project workspace for various projects I have already and ones I intend to undertake.

I don’t really know what my problem is.  I love when things are neat, clean and in order.  I love when my environment is all ready to go for whatever I want to do whether its curl up and read or tackle a sewing project.  I love when paperwork is in order, bills are paid on time, and junk mail has been cathartically taken from the mail drop and placed directly into the shredder

But somehow despite my love of order and cleanliness I let things spin wildly out of control to such a hugely disordered state the task of then reordering my life is far too overwhelming so it gets put off even longer.  Its quite a vicious cycle.

So this year I’m gonna work on maintaining all the areas of my life.  Its so elementary (my dear Watson), and yet so challenging when you mix in the other rigors and demands of life.  But I know that it is much nicer to wash 3-4 dishes a day than have to conquer my entire kitchen inventory at the end of the week!

Tell me about you; what’s your theme for the year?  What are some soul-projects you’d like to tackle in the coming months?