A new year, a new site

I am a big fan of new year's resolutions. I prefer to call them goals, but whatever you call them, they are important. The first day of the year is my favorite holiday. I usually spend it with friends, and later, when the friends all go home, I think about what I need to do so that when it comes to the end of the year and I'm looking back, I can say, "Hey, I really did that!"

This year's goal just hit me like a lightning bolt as I was walking Buddy tonight. For a long time I've been feeling guilty and frustrated about my web site (www.sweetseattle.com). I created the site about eight years ago when I was first learning web design. It was what has since been replaced by Facebook - a place to put all of my photos, talk about my life with Rob, etc. But it's a ton of work to keep up, and well, now there's Facebook. Yet, I haven't let go of the site (or the awesome domain name!) and I've wondered what to do with it.

Then it hit me. I am going to start writing movie reviews! And as I started thinking about a movie review web site, I thought, why not throw knitting into the mix? For me, knitting and movies go hand in hand. I watch a lot of movies, and I'm usually knitting while I do it. So the site will be primarily movie reviews, with a side-bar link to my current knitting project (for all of those crazy knitters out there who would care to know such a thing).

I've never actually written a movie review. But I love movies, I watch tons of them, and I have really obnoxious opinions about all of them. I think I'll be a natural! More to come once I get the web site redesigned, repurposed and ready for public viewing. Look out, Roger Ebert, here I come!