It's my yearly tradition to make up a list of mental New Year's Resolutions that I know I will ultimately fail at. I use them as a source for inspiration and hope - and then I laugh when I realize I make nearly the same ones every year but never follow through. But this year will be different, I will succeed! Yeah right. I'm just gonna make easier resolutions to stick by. Here's my Top 10 List, feel free to share yours'.

1. Start on my MS degree. Yuck, more homework and bitchiness but it will be so worth it when I have that little piece of paper in my hand.

2. Lose 20 lbs. Ok, maybe 10 lbs. Alright, just keep the 5 lbs. off I lost due to that nasty intestinal thing from a month ago.

3. Work on my photography and make my first $1! Momma needs a new camera! Well, Momma doesn't really need a new camera but she would sure like a beefier one. I'd also like to shoot my first wedding but I am a huge chicken - bock, bock.

4. Get out of debt. I'm working with the California State Lottery on this one.

5. Stay healthy! No more intestinal traveler's yuckiness and certainly no more poison oak. The occasional head cold is ok, but absolutely no stomach flu. Got that God?

6. Strongly consider the idea of my fourth and last little heathen.

7. Pay it forward - at least quarterly. I will find something good to do, for the benefit of my community and not just myself. But in a way, it is just for myself since it makes me feel really good - a true win-win situation in my book.

8. Work on being a better mom. I'm going to make myself play Barbies with Tater (other than taking naughty Boudoir pictures which she still doesn't about nor did she see). I'm going to allow the boys to keep using my good pillows and rug as ramps for their Hotwheels and not be angry when the occasional Hotwheels gets thrown down the toilet or shower drain. I promise to complain less and love more.

9. Work on being a better wife. I will attempt to look past his inability to throw things in the trash and his unwillingness to pick up after himself. I will ignore his morning phlegm sessions and his routine evening bathroom trips where the lighting of a match ends a successful event. I promise to love, honor, and cherish him for the great man he is. Notice I did not say obey. That word wasn't in my vows and surely isn't a word I recognize in a marriage.

10. I'm going to work on my trucker tongue. Taters says I have a mouth that would make a sailor blush, so I need to change that. Gunny learned "Gawd Damwit" somewhere and I'm not so sure I can blame his Grandma.

That's all I can think of now. Here are some celebrity resolutions that I find quite entertaining: