These participants know how to find pleasure even in the craziest of times. You’d do well to see what they have to say:

 
       Ah, the simple things… they keep us going when things get crazy. When our goals for the new year start to seem a bit overwhelming and we think we might start to give up, these are the things we find to keep us going for just a little while longer…

       Our challenge for the middle of the month is a throwback to a previous challenge from January 2008. Maybe you even participated in the original, but lets see how we’ve evolved over the last three years. The idea was from myseniormoments and went more or less like this: what are the simple pleasures that make your every day complete? The purring of a kitten? The smell of coffee? Perhaps it’s making a special meal for your family. Whatever they are, let us know. Come up with as many as you’d like, and tell us about them in whatever way you see fit, whether poetry or prose, pictures, or whichever creative way you think up. Just keep it simple and, as always, have fun!

Just copy and paste the code below into your weblog to link back to this site!

It should come out looking exactly like the picture above. Tutorial here.

• Have your entry set to public.
• Link to either this site or the blog ring.
• Come back to this site to let me know that you have posted for this challenge. I will then link to your entry. Rec your entry. Leave you eProps.
• Have your entry done by January 31st.
• Have fun. 

Happy writing! Be sure to check out everyone’s entries. Comments make the world go ’round.

       Add it to your list: see what these challenge participants have to say!

  
       solve (v.) to find the solution to a problem; to balance an equation.

       re·solve (v.) to break into smaller parts, to simplify; to reach a firm decision about; to solve again.

       Get where this is going yet?

       It’s the first of the year. Congratulations, you made it through another. Seriously, it’s kind of awesome the way you do it — that whole survival thing. Whether active or passive, you pulled it off, and sometimes you can’t ask for much more than that. Now this is the time where those of us who adhere to the Gregorian calendar traditionally get all idealistic and come up with ways to make the coming months better than the ones past, or perhaps we just try to do again that which we failed to do in previous years: we make resolutions; we try to balance and simplify our lives and we try to solve the problems that we see around us. Most of us try to keep these for about — what, a week? A month if we’re feeling energetic. But the cold months are still ahead. And things get busy and life happens and that damn Twinkie just looked really tasty. Couldn’t keep my hands off him. IT. I mean it. >.<

       Yep, I’m about to ask you to come up with New Year’s Resolutions. Really, what else did you expect? Think hard; dig deep. Where could you use more balance in your life? Where could things be a bit simpler? What decisions need to be made? I want you to come up with 11 resolutions for 2011. Don’t just throw them out there randomly — this isn’t a list. Not only do I want the solution to the problem, I want you to show your work, too. How do you propose to make these changes? What steps will you take? Is this even a change that you need? Tell me why. Do it. Now! This is for your own good, dammit!

       Oh, and have fun.

Just copy and paste the code below into your weblog to link back to this site!

It should come out looking exactly like the picture above. Tutorial here.

• Have your entry set to public.
• Link to either this site or the blog ring.
• Come back to this site to let me know that you have posted for this challenge. I will then link to your entry. Rec your entry. Leave you eProps.
• Have your entry done by January 15th for Prime Time Action, but I’ll keep linking through the 31st.
• Have fun. 

Happy writing! Be sure to check out everyone’s entries. I’m sure they appreciate your feedback.