Happy New Year!

We will open the book. Its pages are blank.
We are going to put words on them ourselves.
The book is called Opportunity and
its first chapter is New Year's Day.
~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Welcome to The 2010 Project!

It's a new year and a new decade and such an occasion calls for a little something more than just your average, ordinary New Years Resolution. Last year may have been a little tough or obnoxious or just plain boring for some people and the typical "I want to get in shape" goal just wasn't going to cut it for us this year. Let's face it: the average resolution is just doomed for failure and a crazed binge on an entire carton of Moose Tracks Ice Cream sometime in the middle of the month (not that I've EVER done that... ahem).

No, 2010 needs to be epic. It needs to be special. It needs to be FUN.

So we have christened The 2010 Project. We briefly considered doing two-thousand and ten things throughout the year... Actually, I lie. We never seriously considered that. We are NOT that ambitious. The much more reasonable number was always ten. Ten things. Ten things that we each wanted to do, participate in or accomplish. Yes, you'll see that we may have variations of "I want to get in shape" on our lists but now we have each other and we have this blog and we have a way to make it a little more exciting.

In the coming weeks and months the three of us will be posting about our year of adventure. We can't wait to see what this year has in store for us, where our lists will take us and how the back end of twelve months will find us changed. Here's to living determined, risky, creative, unexpected and full lives in 2010.

-- Melissa, Shannon and Wendy

* The word cloud in the header of this blog can be attributed to Wordle.net. The cloud contains words from all our lists. Interestingly enough, our most used word is Learn.

P.S. You might notice that we have more than 10 things on our lists. We've added a mystery category or a secret category because we can't plan for everything. Life is full of surprises. So at the end of the year we can look back and choose something that we feel is worthy for that category. Come what may.