Saturday, January 03, 2009

So Long Holidays...

01/03/2009

The Season is officially over.  The gifts are opened and quite a few already in pieces or missing same.  We don’t have to listen to the debate on “Merry Christmas” versus “Happy Holidays” again until December 2009.  The Christmas tree or perhaps we should call it the Holiday tree to be more politically correct, will come down tomorrow, since we are not home today, and put away in storage for another eleven months.  The Christmas cards received will go in the trash…sorry!  The poinsettias that have adorned our dining room table will go with the cards, and whatever Holiday cookies, cakes and candies we have leftover will go with The Nancy to her office for final disposition, aka consumption (those people will eat anything).  Taking that stuff to The Nancy’s office keeps us from tossing out perfectly good confections, but will allow others the weight gain from them and not us.  By tomorrow afternoon the house will be relegated to its normal drabness, totally devoid of the Holiday Festiveness of the past several weeks.  It is just the way it works. 

Now it is time to resolve to do something in 2009, and then not do it as I have not done in years past.  So, with that said, here is a list of the things I resolve not to do.

1. Start new projects at home without sufficient monies to complete them and maybe complete some of the projects I have already started.
2. Stay focused at work, and not allow my mind to wander from the task at hand – I will disable Spider Solitaire.
3. Regain the thirty-plus pounds I lost in 2008.
4. I resolve to always answer the question, “Does this make me look fat?”
5. Pluck The Nancy’s chin or massage her feet when she hints at it.
6. Give anyone the finger ever again.
7. And my last non-resolution – Never drop an inappropriate or mistimed “f-bomb” again.

These are my 2009 Non-Resolutions and I should definitely not have any problem not keeping them.  Isn’t this so much easier than vowing to do a lot of things you know in your heart you won’t do?  Why set yourself up for failure?  Merely own up to the fact Resolutions are a bunch a crap, and don’t even go there. 

I heard Will Smith in an interview a couple of days ago.  When asked what Resolutions he would make for 2009, he promptly said, “None.” He went on to say something is worth doing why wait for a New Year to do it.  I liked that, and will adopt that for my own use.  The again, I may never do that, either.  It’s just the way it is. 

And that is all I have to say about that…