Cupcakes are my favorite thing in the whole world. So I'm using it as the image to kick off my first blog of 2011.

Love Themed Cupcakes

This year I created to be a year where my love wins; where my natural talent shines and gives me back everything I deserve, which is everything. So far this year has been pretty awesome. I have had some things that happened like losing all my computer data this past weekend, that could have really taken me down. Instead I've worked diligintely to make sure it doesn't happen again.

This year I was also approved to lead the Introduction Leaders Program for Landmark Education and I am completely stoked about it! I've been participating at some level or another for the past 10 years and I can't think of a better way to take it to another level than to lead to larger numbers of people across the United States. For my Landmark friends, thank you for causing this to happen and for listening to me as such a huge contribution. I promise to make a difference in the world in this new capacity.

So I have so much more to share with you. But I saw the Plinky Prompt and wanted to use this as an opportunity to get back on track with blogging. Sorry for the time between articles. But it's 2011…a year of yes. So let's keep this party going!

God what a boring answer…I can already tell! This answer will never get me elected but here goes…

Whining is costly in this house!

I'd be lying if I said I hadn't thought about this before. With so much going on in the world and in our country, it's hard to say, really, what my first priority would be. But I'd have to say that my first priority would be getting our finances sorted out. Seriously…even though I know it would not be the most popular thing, I would have to say that without knowing how much money we have and making sure we had enough to put aside for the next month/year it's hard to do much else. Now I don't want to represent that I have done this very much for my own life, but I have recently started putting aside money (a little every week) and am surprised by how much I save up. I check it from time to time and am always delighted to see how much is there.

I want to say that I so appreciate the work that President Obama has done. It wouldn't have been easy no matter who got elected. But I can really identify with coming up with great ideas and mostly having to deal with other people being the biggest obstacle to achieving what I created. It's not all as easy as we thought it would be…but I'm happy that we are moving in "A" direction.

Independence or Inter-Dependence…don't let it fool you kid!

Friendship & Trust

Independence is a crazy thing. I love inter-dependence also…but independence gets my vote every time. There is a certain joy that comes from your creation of something to it's fulfillment in life. I'd say that my vice, though, is independence, used to justify why i didn't produce results. It means well…independence does. It calls to you like all things are possible through him…but it's tricky. You need others in some way, shape or form to make your thing happen and/or become real in life. So you need them. Which makes you sort of interdependent really and not independent at all. So which is it going to be?? Working independently for the sake of others, which is really interdependency. Or working with others until you can work alone. Either way, I'd say independence is my vice. I'm in love with it. And I can't do anything without others in my life. It always reminds me of that. So I don't know if I could quit…ever. But I sure try some times.