I don’t make New Year’s resolutions because they always get broken, but our entire household has decided a diet is in order and it’s easier for three to diet than one. We’ll see how far that goes.

I am sometimes too blunt and will attempt to be more thoughtful before spitting something out of my mouth. No guarantees there either.

I want to get closer to the Lord this year, learn more of His Word and His Will for my life. This is the most important thing to me.

I must finally give in and get those new glasses. The old ones have just about had it with me tightening screws daily.

I will find a candidate I think is suitable for the presidency. One with experience, a calm demeanor in times of crisis and who doesn’t try to change history just a few years after it happens.

Of the leading Republican contenders I think Mitt Romney is too slick by half and is running negative now. I don’t like negative.

Mike Huckabee is so inexperienced in world affairs and in federal affairs that I believe he would be a Jimmy Carter with an R after his name. He has also gone negative. Cross him off my list.

Rudy Giuliani seems to be sinking like a rock, although time will tell the story on that.

John McCain’s star is rising and except for his frustrating actions in the past I can go along with him. It’s the present and future I must look to, but the past shows what the future holds. I don’t want a party man but one who will be a man who will serve the entire country even if it means bucking his own party. His star is rising if you believe the polls.

If Fred Thompson had been making himself available throughout this campaign to tell us what he told us in his 15 minute speech trying to close the sale in Iowa, he would be a formidable candidate, and my heart is still with him.

Bottom line: I live in South Carolina and our primary comes right behind New Hampshire’s. Another small state that will have a big say in the nominees of the parties. If Fred is still alive in the campaign I intend to vote for him.

Otherwise it’s a tossup with McCain and Giuliani and there are faults with both of them. I am going to vote for the one I believe is the right one and not for the better of two evils. Then I’ll let God sort it out in the end.

I see no one on the horizon of the Democratic party I could possibly vote for. At one time I thought Richardson was a good candidate with experience but he stuck his foot in his mouth the other day when he suggested we force Musharraf out of office after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Not too smart.

Then there’s that dream vacation my husband and I have wanted to take to the West and see some of the National Parks. I want to go back to Hawaii but he wants to do the West tour first.

Other than that I just plan to be as good a Christian as I can be.