Happy New Year...

I like to get caught up in the new beginnings business of new year, month, pay period.  I make grand and sweeping plans to change for the better.  Budgets and lifting schedules and book clubs are created and forgotten before the new has even dimmed it's glow.  I'm lazy and comfortable in my easy life, I suppose.  Or I take on too much too fast.  Or I'm lazy and comfortable in my easy life.
2015 is no different.  Or maybe it is.  Maybe the idea that this is my forty fifth year has changed a little something in me.  Maybe the idea that I don't want the second half of my life to be a physical or financial struggle has finally made me consider some things.
I lost seven pounds.  Two to three of those have come back around these past two weeks, but I know how to get rid of them and love them more when they are gone.  I have a normal budget that does not require hoops to be jumped through.  I even got the first deposit into next year's Christmas fund!  And I did all of that well before the ball dropped.
So what do I really resolve for 2015?  Is it really to be rich and thin.  Not really.  Really?  Truly?  I resolved to just be happy.  I resolve to figure out how to combat that dumb blackness that comes over me for no good reason.  I resolve to figure out if it creeps in on the fog of monthly cycles or if it bursts through due to lack of chocolate.  Is there a call for therapy and medicine or simply better eating and more exercising and gardening?  I am betting on the latter.  I am betting on doing what feels happy will keep me happy. 
I think being happy will solve all my problems.  If I simply follow what brings joy to me than it will be easy.  And by happy, I don't mean stupidly giddy about the half full glass.  I mean, well, I don't know exactly what I mean.  Happy like when Harlow would find an enormous branch fallen from the tree and she would settle down and chew on it.  Happy like when Hattie finds a yard full of leaves and she feels compelled to attack every one.  Happy like when a kitty finds a sunspot and then another and another and then a heated blanket.  I should know by now that my pets have all the answers.
So here is to 2015.  I won't put too much pressure on it or me to make it the best year ever.  I will make it happy.  Everything else will fall into place if I just do that one simple thing.

Now off to the treadmill to walk and watch Parks and Rec.  I do have other minor resolutions...