The Year of Do

So..."The Year of Do."  One of the first times I mentioned the name of this blog to someone, their first response was, "As in Mountain Dew?" 

Well...not exactly, although the confusion is understandable. 

Like I said in my inaugural post, I love the possibilities of a new year.  Anything can happen.  Call it a gut feeling, or maybe wishful thinking, but there is something about 2013 that feels like it is going to be an especially good year.  In the words of the Black Eyed Peas (who my roommate made me listen to ad nauseum during the summer of 2010), "I got a feelin."

So, after a lengthy discussion about my affinity for the year 2013 with a good friend of mine, this year has been dubbed, "The Year of Do."  As in, I'm actually going to do the things I've been talking about for years. 

We all have that mental list of things we say we will get to one day, the things that have peeked our interest for years but just feels like too big of a risk.  Well, this is the year of doing, as in, I'm actually going to do it.  I'm going to refinish that coffee table I bought 2 years ago from a Goodwill because I said it, "had potential."  I'm going to actually finish unpacking all of the boxes in my house from my last move.  I'm going to make plans to travel, clean out my closet, teach myself how to sew, read through the bible in a year, learn to surf, and who knows...I might even adopt a dog by the end of the year.   It's not so much a resolution, or a list of things I want to do by the end of the year, it's more a state of mind of not putting off for another year my ideas, dreams, and interests.

I don't want to be someone who waited too long to pursue their dreams.  I just want to do it.