New Year's Resolution

I know. I haven't been back in a very long time. I have no excuses. Well... actually I have a lot of them, but I'll spare you the sad sob story and get straight to the point.... I'm tired. Yup, lo and behold - this baking fanatic is actually tired. And what could be the cause you wonder? The joy of my life and the bane of my existence all at the same time: WORK. Seriously, it's such a godsend that I was able to find a job in this market, but damn, it really puts a damper on my baking.

But to stop myself from being the world's smallest violin playing the world's saddest song, I made myself a new year's resolution. And if you know me well enough (probably not since I've only been blogging for a few months so I might as well just tell you), I don't like making resolutions. I think they are just empty promises with short term benefits. Now I know I'm most likely treading on some very heavy toes at the moment, but this blog isn't about me and my disbelief in resolutions, so I'm going to move on with my story and hope you keep reading.

My resolution this year is to try, and the operative word IS try, to bake at least once a week and to blog about it. I think this will help all the hungry coworkers at my job site AND fulfill some deep, carnal desire inside me to create fabulous tasting goodies. Great right? Fantastic idea huh? So what's stopping me already as this new year has just only begun? Well I'm realizing that I get stuck in what I want to bake. It's nice to be a part of the Daring Baker's ring since they mandate what I make each month for challenges (and boy are they challenges), but what about my regular weekly baking excursions? BF told me I should just get a cookbook and bake all of the recipes in it, but then that would be SO Julie and Julia and that's not what I'm about. There's also the fact that I'm fairly picky about what I want to bake and really only want to bake what I think is interesting to try out. Silly, yes? Can you see how I've just put myself between a rock and a hard place?

Anyways, this issue is still something that I'm working out, but at least for the moment I've got a list of things that I need to bake as you can see to the right. So with all of that, New Year, here I come (Insert War Cry Here).