Unresolved

So here we are, once again on the threshold of a new year.   How many times in the next 24 hours will you say or think: Where did the time go? So I won’t bother to repeat it here.  (But where did it go?)

Do you still consider making New Year’s resolutions? If you don’t write them down, do you even think about them? I have long ago given up making promises to myself that I will never keep.  If I want to feel bad about myself for being a weakling, I already have sufficient items from prior years to draw upon.

So this year, instead of trying to reconfigure bad habits, I’ve decided to embrace them.  Below is a partial list of personal reforms that will NOT happen in 2015 .

• Spend more time at the gym.
• Eat more vegetables.
• Give up Cool Whip.
• Lose weight.
• Shop less.
• Get more sleep.
• Organize my drawers and keep them organized.
• Stop wasting time watching Law and Order reruns.
• Improve at golf.
• Learn French.
• Cook at home more often.
• Always hang up my clothes before I go to bed.
• Read James Joyce.
• Wear a bikini.
• Complete a London Times crossword puzzle.
• Solve even one clue of a London Times crossword puzzle.
• Have a neat desk.
• Never write another essay about my husband.

So what are you doing tonight? Staying at home? Perhaps a movie? Dinner with friends? A fancy party? Will you even try to stay awake until midnight? Whatever your preference, I want to wish everyone a happy, healthy New Year.

And thank you for your encouragement and  readership.  My husband also thanks you.  The time I spend writing is time spent not shopping.

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