With ages comes

I have a social fear of going to new places to talk to strangers about stuff I'm unsure of. Like, my car. The 'check engine' light has been coming on every so often, more lately, and I can't let myself ignore it. (nor should I, I know, I know).

But... the prospect of going to a garage and asking for help I find scary.

Fortunately, doing things that scare me is one of my resolutions. So... I called today and brought my car in to have them take a look. Once I got there everything was okay. It's really helped in the last few years that as I've gotten older, the people that work at these places have either gotten slightly younger and most are now younger than me. If the person behind the counter is younger than me... I'm set. All I can think is "phsss, I got this."

So, phew, that's underway.

Resolutions

I've asked Sarah to do another painting for me. One with some more resolutions. She's made some of my resolutions into paintings before, but this will be the first time it's been planned.

So far I have...

I will... embrace my atheism.
connect with my grandmothers.
pursue things that scare me.
make paper from junk mail.

These seem to fit a running theme among the previous sets. A crafts, a relative, a personal belief, and a personal behavior. It's still missing an animal idea though.

I've asked for a vermillion background, though I'm not sure what that color is supposed to signify. I'd just finally learned what color it is (always thought it a green color), and there was a great image of a lot of archways all that color that inspired me.