1. It's the first day of a new year.

As this is my first post I should probably explain my reasons for this, well here goes:

 I was thinking about New Year’s resolutions, and for Christmas my friend got me a book called “1000 reasons to be happy”, this to me sounded like a fantastic title for a book. However upon starting to read some of these reasons, I found them lacking in substance and explanation, some of them were not even reasons just observations on life or quotes. I thought this to be quite a cop out and so developed an idea; I decided one of my New Year’s resolutions would be to see if I could find a reason why I smiled every day of 2011. I thought I would spread the love by publishing this list to the internet as I think of these reasons; it doesn’t really matter if nobody reads it as it’s something I’m mainly doing for myself. It also means I will have something to look back on so I can truly say 2011 was a good year.

My personal rules for this:

-Some of the reasons I may explain with a long post some just with a few lines depending on how I feel.

-Sometimes I may not get to post exactly on the day if access to the internet is lacking but I will catch myself up.

-They all need to make sense.

-They don’t have to be reasons other people would necessarily share.

-… I think that’s it

Now to explain today’s reason:

Well a New Year is almost like a clean slate, all the mistakes you made last year don’t apply to this year. I’m not saying they are not still their lingering in your mind, dictating your moves, but they happened last year. If anyone brings it up you can apply the phrase “yes, but that was last year I won’t let it happen this year” this is especially brilliant if you have actually done something yesterday which you can pass off as last year, it gives it a gap of time which means people are more understanding. With the New Year also comes new possibilities there are so many things waiting to happen for me 364 more days of cheerfulness and it being a New Year this is the start of it all. So let’s sit back, relax and let 2011 roll in. That’s the reason I have smiled today.