While Hammock offices are officially closed this afternoon until Monday, Jan. 5, I'll be checking e-mail frequently, thanks to a relentless iPhone addiction. If you need to reach me, please send an e-mail to mmorris at hammock.com. Thanks, and happy holidays!

I usually don't make resolutions because I subscribe to the superstition that making them only leads to breaking them. But my good friend and co-worker Summer asked me to make—and share—some this year, so I am breaking tradition for her. You're welcome, Summer.

So here we go—my 2009 New Year's resolutions for my work here at Hammock:

Learn more about CSS, PHP and Javascript so that I am better able to edit it. I would love to be able to write my own code from scratch, but I think that's a little lofty. I'll save that for 2010.

Write more stories out of my comfort zone. I tend to gravitate toward business-, government- or tech-related stories, and while I love writing them, I want to branch out even more than I have this past year and feel more confident in my ability to tackle any subject put before me.

Eat lunch every day. No, seriously. We all have been crazy-busy here at Hammock lately, and it's been easy to "forget" to eat lunch. Unfortunately, I forgot roughly eight times out of 10 the last two weeks, and that's just not good for anybody. So I resolve to buy healthy, easy-to-make items at the grocery store that I can bring to the office with me so I have no excuse not to stop for 10 minutes and refuel.