An orange pumpkin and a green belt.

So on Saturday I passed my kickboxing grading. I went from an orange to a green belt. (The last grading I did was in November) I was so chuffed. It seems hard to believe that I've not been kickboxing for around about a year and I hope to be doing it for a few years more.

Also I had a nice surprise when I received the latest issue of Cross Stitch Card Shop. A letter and photo of something I cross stitched (a design from issue 88) was published on their letters page. I was so pleased. It really is amazing seeing it in print. The card had a pumpkin on it saying "Pumpkin I love you". It fit just perfecly what I wanted to say.

I definitely need to step up my cross stitch efforts if I'm going to make all the things I want in time for Christmas.

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. ~Lillian Dickson

There are a million and one things I could write about. I meant to write sooner but life has its way of keeping me busy. I wrote so little in 2012 but I know that some of those things hold true even now.

Anyway, I've been keeping busy and I like it that way. But with Christmas out of the way and it's already March, I'm wondering if I'll ever have the time to finish all the Christmas projects I want to finish. I wonder whether I'll ever get to read all the books I want to or learn all the things I want to learn, see all the things I want to see and do all the things I want to do.

Part of me also wonders how long will it be before indifference sets in; my endurance waivers and my patience disppears, not just in those things but in life. I know I can never be indifferent, I'll always endure what I can and I'll always manage to find patience. Why? Because I can. It's my life. As long as I'm in control, living life on my terms, I'll always carry on.

I have a lifetime to do all the things I want and I'll do as many as I can, taking each day at a time.