TechGirl's New Year's Resolutions...

Top 10 time... here are the Top 10 things I want to get done in 2006

10. Watch more sunsets.

9. Learn to play the violin with my eldest daughter. We both got a violin for Christmas, and she is at the ripe age to start learning.

8. Have a date night with my hubbie once a month. It's just too easy to get in the rut of staying home every night and enjoying Keith Olberman wax about the Oddballs of the world.

7. Get even more coverage for the clients I work. We've gotten a lot of good coverage this year for them, but this is a need that will never be satiated.

6. Be a better friend - send thank you notes more often, call people I care about, do more kind gestures for friends in crisis and just care more about others.

5. Give a large anonymous gift to someone who needs it but is too proud to ask for help.

4. Stay relatively healthy. Not saying I want to lose weight or be able to run 100 miles without missing a beat or anything, but it would be nice to get back in the gym and not lose my breath chasing my daughters up the stairs for a tickle fight.

3. Take a trip to see some relatives we don't normally get to see. A couple of them are getting closer to death's doorstep, and I just want to share another moment with a few of them before they cross it.

2. Find a solution to the never ending laundry pile. Starting my own private nudist colony is one thought I had. Throwing away dirty clothes and just buying a new wardrobe every week was another.

1. You probably thought I'd say something cheesy for #1... well... I just can't resist. I just want to live and take each moment and appreciate it for what it is - a gift.

Happy New Years! From the cynical TechGirl.