Happy New Year!

Resolutions for 2009

#1 - Continue renovating. This was also our resolution for 2008, which we didn't start to act upon until September. Hopefully this year we'll begin earlier in the year so we can finish more than one room. Due to school, we have less money and less available time to do renovations but we're more motivated than we were last year.We're hoping to finish part of the kitchen and all of the living room in 2009.

#2 - Continue working towards the Two Year Plan. We begin school on January 5 and finish in mid-December 2009 at which time Mike will apply at the University of Edinburgh. We'll be taking two classes, or 10 credits, each quarter in 2009 which is really going to require some sacrifices.

For instance, Desi isn't going to get a big 30th Birthday Celebration Bonanza Year Closing Ceremony in April. She was hoping to celebrate in Jamaica, but she's sacrificing Jamaica in favor of Scotland. Hopefully we can make our 12-year anniversary vacation still work, though. We hope to recreate our honeymoon and do an east coast road trip in June/July. But again, it'll depend on the school calendar. We may have to postpone those plans in favor of Scotland, too.

Happy new year to everyone! We wish peace and happiness to all in 2009. We hope the new year brings you only good things.