New Year's Day

Normally, in the week running up to New Year's, I do a series of posts about the best/worst of the year, my favourite moments, what I learned and what I hope to learn in the coming year.  I've been in just a tad of a slump these last few weeks and, honestly, when I want the entire world to just go suck an egg, I don't really care about reflecting on the past or writing hopefully about the year to come.  But I don't want this post to be all glum and sucky, so I'll try my best to put on air of happiness :)  There...that emoticon happy face should do the trick.

Right now, Mike and I feel like we're standing in front of a bunch of doors and we can only pick one.  Our decisions involve our house and our careers, but we can't do both right now.  I have HUGE plans for what my career will be and it does not involve my current job.  BUT we need a fairly large sum of money to get this project started and one way to get that money is by remortgaging our house.  If we remortgage our house, there goes the chance for a new house right now.  But, once my career takes off (and I have no doubts that it will), then we can get a house.  The only problem with that is that the house I want right NOW probably won't be available in two years time when my career/project is actually flourishing.  Are you starting to see our dilemma?

I only have one resolution for 2012 and it's not a very big one...to finish the year with a different name than I started.  When I mentioned this to Mike, he thought I meant I was going to marry someone else.  If he continues being an ass, I just might :)  What I mean is that I am going to FINALLY legally change the spelling of my first name.  When I was 14, I decided to change the "i" to a "y", but I never made it legal.  Over the years, I've hit a few snags where someone has taken issue that there's a difference in my name from one sheet to the next.  In any legal situation, I've always used the "i" version, but everywhere else, it's the "y".  It's high time that the "y" shows up on every piece of paper.

That's all I got for now.  Sorry I couldn't be more chipper and give you a post that left you busting a gut.  Maybe in the days to come, the clouds in my mind will start to part and that sunshine that I know is in there will start to peak out.  For now, I leave you with a picture of Little Miss Kat and the temper tantrum she threw about having to open presents on Christmas morning...