And while we're on the topic of New Year's...

Here are some resolutions that I'd like to stick to for more than a couple of weeks this New Year:

• I really want to start running again (and chasing after the ice cream truck can no longer count). I think about it constantly and just need to man up, throw on my sneaks, and hit the pavement. What am I so scared of?

• Read more books with substance and less issues of US Weekly Magazine

• Visit more of Texas than just my hometown. I owe Lubbock, Dallas, Austin and Houston a long-overdue reunion.

• Find me a decent man...one that I can cook for; a willing guinea pig. I have so many recipes that I'm dying to try and I'm sick of having to throw parties as an excuse to put on my apron.

• Take my analyzing down a couple of notches; stop attempting to understand why someone did or didn't do something the way I see fit. You know you're guilty of thinking too much when you ponder what it was the writer was trying to convey when they ended an email response with a generic "Sincerely."

• Buy/adopt a dog. Sorry Mom, I know you think that bringing a small animal in to a 400 square foot space sounds ludicrous, but I'm more than ready to start taking care of something other than myself.

• Forgive, or at least try harder to.

• Take a trip somewhere I've never been...by myself

• Remind myself to take a step back and look at how far I've come. I'm my own worst critic.

• Be more trusting and less guarded; let more people in to my life. Stop assuming that every situation will unfold like the last, be it positive or negative

• Cook more.

• Put forth a better effort of documenting daily occurrences. For the shear fact that I live in this crazy city, I witness some amazingly hysterical and fascinating stuff!

• Ask more questions

• Put myself first more often

• Stop rolling my eyes so much! It's become a horrible habit; I feel like Dorothy Zbornak from The Golden Girls.

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Until we eat again,

Lindsay, The Lunch Belle