HAPPY (belated) NEW YEAR!

  Okay, I get it. I suck at this 'accountability' thing. But with the new year comes new goals; so along with eating less chips (good luck, me), being more organised (yeah, right) and going to gym more (again, good luck) I have come up with a simple scheme to keep myself on track with this whole blog thing (admittedly it does contain some organising, but the rest of my life is still up for messy grabs!). I hear some people call this idea a 'plan'. It's genius really. You lay out everything you want to cover in your posts, set post dates and generally have a freaking clue as to what you are doing. I should have probably done that when I started. Oh, well! No time like the present, right? And speaking of presents.... Look who got spoiled by Santa!

Mia's stocking isn't even in the picture because it's big and has to lean on the couch or else everything falls out...

  Okay, so I'm sure you're dying to know what this amazing plan of mine is, eh? Alright. Here goes.

• Post more
• Be more writing
• Mia
• That's it

  Alright, you caught me. That's not the plan. Well it is, but it was the very first, very rough draft of the plan. Seriously now, the real plan:

• Mia Reads. It's been ages since I wrote a #miareads post on Instagram and I really hate that because I liked doing them, but it didn't seem like the best platform for as lengthy posts as #miareads deserves/requires. So the full posts will go on here, with an abbreviated post on Insta. Oh, and it'll only be once a month, highlighting all the books Mia and I read that month, except this month, when there will be two because it's my blog and I can do what I want! And I wanted to write a post about the best books I read last year. It'll be great, I promise.
• Training Tuesdays. I'm not a professional trainer, nor do I claim to be, but I have picked up some opinions, tips and tricks while working with Mia that I'd like to share with you. You are under no obligation to take my advice (but it would be kinda cool if you were. Brain control via blog post! Muahaha! If it's ever possible, I should definitely not be the person they put in control of it. Just sayin'.), or even agree with it and I'd be super thrilled if you didn't hate me if my tips don't work for you. That'd be great, kthanksbye! Oh, right, timing! I'll do a Training Tuesday post every other Tuesday, because frankly, I'm too lazy to plan one for every week. Who do you think I am! Wonder Woman? Does Wonder Woman even have a blog?
• Motivation Monday. I'll be posting things that motivate me as a dog owner to be the best possible dog owner I can be, and things that make me want to get out and do things with the best dog ever! Sounds great, yeah? This is where it gets tricky. Motivation Monday's will be posted on the second Monday of the month, unless that week is a Training Tuesday week, in which case Motivation Monday will be the third Monday of the month. Simple right? I think I'd better write all this down...
• Hikes and basic life with Mia! This one is easy because the love I have for this dog makes it impossible for me to keep her to myself. I'll schedule these posts around the others so there isn't a huge block of posts and then nothing for two weeks, but really, these are the ones that are the most fun to write. She's so cute and smart and funny and... I think you get the picture.

  Alrighty! There you go! All laid out super simple and easy to follow. Some posts will be short, others will be longer (seriously, this post may be the longest one yet!), some will have tonnes of pictures, some of them won't. I hope you join us on our journey. Here's a picture of Fern, because she's cute and she 'helped' me write this.

Thinks she's a dog. Not really a dog.