At first I wanted to paint the room yellow, but then got the idea of red velvet curtains into my head, so the yellow was out. Then I thought I’d go a little Tim Burton and do vertical black and white stripes, but that might be a little overbearing in such a small room.

Now I’m leaning toward light and dark gray stripes. All of my other rooms have bright color on the walls, so it might be interesting to do a room with color in the furniture and accessories instead. It will be a good backdrop for the concert posters I’m planning to buy on eBay.

Couch – Overstock, Lamp and Rug – CB2

For the office, since most of the walls will end up lined with bookshelves, I’m thinking white with a big blueish/purpleish wall.

I also realized that I bought nail polish and eye shadow in the same colors as my paint swatches.

Sally Hansen Gunmetal

This eye shadow (L’oreal HIP) turned out a lot lighter than I expected.
Any recommendations for a dark, sparkly purple?

Also, on a random note, I’ve decided to participate in Charade Style’s Make Your Life Amazing series. It’s only three days in and my brain is very, very happy with the things I’m figuring out.

I hope you all had a lovely New Year’s Eve. Mine was very boisterous and then nice and quite.

Through one of her friends, Jessica and I were lucky enough to find ourselves in a suite for the last Wings game of the year. We ate pizza, got to see a couple good fights, and the Wings won!

After the game I dropped J off and headed home to hop in bed with Dexter and Slayer. I’ve got two episodes left in season two!!

Before the TV watching commenced, I decided to do a couple things to wrap up 2009 and put it out of my mind. First, I wrote down all the bad stuff that happened on slips of paper. I couldn’t think of many at first, but after four or five I got rolling. Then I took them downstairs to burn them and (hopefully) let them go.

Second, I got to work on my vision board for 2010. I decided to go with Gwen Bell’s idea of a white board, but also included a space for a weekly To Do list and a Happiness list. Gotta keep things organized, yet positive! Under orders from Gala Darling, I wrote my goals for the year in present statements. Not “I want to,” but “I am.” Then I cut out photos from magazines to go with some of my goals and wrapped the whole thing in lights.

In 2010 I am…Traveling, driving a new car, saving money, on time, accepting invitations to go out, making new friends, painting upstairs rooms, reading 25 books, gaining 100 blog followers (the box is stuck at the bottom of my site right now if you’re not a follower already – will fix soon!), going on adventures, stepping outside the box, launching a very popular website (I’ll tell you about it in the next month or so), falling in love (not any time soon, but at some point), volunteering.

There’s still quite a bit of space left, so I need to come up with more.

I have a tendency to get sucked into feeling bad when things so wrong, so my overall goal this year is to combat The Sad. My board has a note that says “You make the happy.” It’s all about attitude, right? I need to learn to get over the small stuff and refocus on what’s important. A month later I never remember why I was upset anyway, so why dwell on it when I could be out having great adventures.

Making my Last Decade List I found I spent a huge amount of time just hanging around with friends. Not that I don’t love that, I do, but I feel I didn’t do enough memorable things. The middle of a decade was a total blur of concerts and bars and alcohol, so this time I’m going to think bigger and achieve more I am thinking bigger and achieving more.

What are your goals for this year?