I don’t know if it’s my personality or just fibromyalgia that keeps me from setting New Year’s Resolutions. Sure, there are things I want to achieve in 2009 like getting a Rackmount lcd and bringing about world peace. Not necessarily in that order.

I just feel that my daily life is already enough to handle without stacking on seemingly impossible goals. In a way I admire people who can blog about a long list of goals for the coming year, but I’m just too tired. I definitely want to explore writing more. I could set a goal to have a 1,000 articles written in 2009. However, that seems more discouraging & overwhelming then helpful. I guess my main resolution is to keep going. Do New Year’s Resolutions overwhelm you?

At first I thought “I Can Make You Thin” which airs on TLC was an infomercial. Infomercials are ok, but only late at night & only for a few minutes if they are about acne treatments. It just has that infomercial feel. I think the studio audience is just there to motivate people. It’s quite cheesy. I keep expecting him to say “& now for a limited time when you buy thin, I’ll throw in a free salad spinner.” I was surprised to watch the show & see that he wasn’t selling a book, he told you everything you needed to know. The format of the show is just silly, but there’s a lot of valid information.

I just want to yell at the TV “They already gave you your own show. Stop trying so hard.” If anything, it makes his principles seem less valid because he’s working so hard to make people believe them. At least I hope there is a lot of valid information there because I’m doing what he says. This guy is obviously used to selling something, but you don’t have to pay for the “golden rules.”

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I often joke that gravity is my biggest enemy. With fibromyalgia, it feels like gravity is just weighing me down. More likely, it’s just fatigue but I get more laughs if I say gravity. So when I heard the song “Defying Gravity” from the musical Wicked it really inspired me. It has nothing to do with health or fibromyalgia. However, I listen to it when I need inspiration. What inspires you to fight fibromyalgia even though it’s not fibromyalgia related?

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