New Year

Here is my New Year's post that's a little late written (but who cares!).

I didn't make any resolutions, because I think it's not logical to promise to do something the year following, only because it happens to be the day when our calendar year changes. For me, I prefer making promises whenever I feel ready and motivated to change my life in some way. Right now I'm in a process of cutting down the amount of sugar I eat, because even though I know it's really really bad for me, it's been hard to eat less sweet things. I had thought about it as my one bad habit, but now little by little I decided to reduce my sugar eating. I'm still in the phase of "drinking tea without sugar" and "only bake one sweet thing every two weeks" and "try to invite someone over to eat the sweet thing you've made". Because baking is one of my hobbies, I would like to still keep doing it when I have the chance of sharing the results.

Another kind of change in my life I'm processing right now is doing more sports. I don't see it as very challenging, because I've always loved moving and have had like five trainings per week, but now I just needed motivation to start doing something again. I started dance classes last week, and I've been doing some physical strength training every other day, and I think it's just fine like this. I would really love to have a dog also because of the amount of walk it requires, and for previous experience, most of the time it doesn't feel like I have to go for a walk only because of the dog. It just makes a good habit out of it as far as I know.

I asked my best friend recently what she thinks is the best thing in having your own dog, and she answered me with a novel, and it didn't really help me with my puppy fever (not that I would want to be helped anyway..). She talked about the trust and unconditional love and friendship with the dog, and that someone who has never had pets just can't know how much you grow to care about each other, and how much it can make your life happier. That would be the novel in two sentences (:

Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow or soon anyway I'm going to post now actually much more recent pictures, and then I should be up to date with them. Pictures here are from my New Year's celebration, and some things I've been baking (:

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