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January 03 ResolutionsMany people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits.
~Author Unknown
A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.
~Author Unknown
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
~Oprah Winfrey
Once again we found ourselves passing the last hours of the old year with our best of friends J&J. Our days of making big plans for an all night New Years Eve celebration went out with the year 1986 just after the birth of our first kid, Daughter of Darkness. It’s not that we were too old at the time, hell we were a mere twenty eight years old, but going out with a new born (albeit in the hands of capable grandparents) was more than a new mother could stand. My son, Captain Adventure, followed a couple years later so that by the time we thought about getting out for the New Years festivities, we had found that we liked the convenience of staying home and leaving the streets free for the maniacs and the police.
For the better part of fifteen years now, my oldest friend J and his wife J, have joined us for the passing of the old year into the new. 2006 was a trying year for both of us and we found ourselves this year on deck not so much to ring in the New Year but to make sure that the old one left. My daughter was out with her boyfriend (God I love that boy) and my son had several friends over who sequestered themselves away into the war room where they each had a Play Station and TV monitor hooked up to the internet so that they could celebrate with friends around the word by blowing each other up. A room away found the old farticles waiting for the execution of the old year by playing cards. New tech versus old, but that’s the way I like it. Although I revel out loud about the day we become empty nesters, I know in my heart that these are the days to savor. When I was young and immortal, I had no fear that ‘these days’ would last forever. Now I find immortality waning and the thought of loss is always with me.
I have learned over the years that the easiest way to fall from resolutions made in the New Year is to tell no one else what they are. I have also found that if you have to make a list of your resolutions that you are also doomed to failure. If you fail at one, they all suffer. One list, one destiny. And so with that said, here is my resolution for the year of our Lord two thousand and seven:
Rematerialize.
In the last year I have allowed work and home improvement needs to fully occupy my twenty four hours a day. I have become a ghost at home and have lost touch with family and friends. So my resolution is to re-organize the importance of the things that need tending to. Unfortunately work is work and like the finite hours assigned to each day by God, there is a fixed amount of time assigned to our jobs that is for the greater majority of us inflexible, but it isn’t really the time but the focus that needs adjustment. I can still do the things that I am doing now; I just need to put them in proper order with the time I have each day. If I have learned anything from my Home Depot maneuvers its that the fixings here and there will always be around, the people in my life may not.
Now while I said I do not believe in a resolutions list, I have, like stocking stuffers on Christmas morning, several aside resolutions that seem to ride with me from year to year:
Lose weight (it's not so much what I eat between Chrstmas and New Years, but what I eat between New Years and Christmas).
Clean up my act (if you saw my desk you would understand this one).
Stop procrastinating (I’ll look into this one later)
If I fail at any of the above, get up, dust off and try again. No need to wait for Dick Clark to give the go ahead.
Good luck to all of you in this new year with whatever resolutions you may have made. If you are succesful, may your life and those around you be all the more blessed. If you fail and leave it at that, may your pains be as short lived as your resolutions.
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