Happy New Year, everyone. After playing games, eating like a hog, and staying up until 3AM for a week and a half, I am exhausted. I spent this past weekend recuperating from my vacation. I find I am prepared to let go of Christmas once more, but my tree and lights still sparkle in my living room, and probably will until Presidents’ Day.
I have never in my life made a New Year’s resolution, probably because I know I’m not the type to keep them. Have you all made any resolutions? What are they?
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I usually don't make "resolutions," but I do have some goals for this year, which I guess is really the same thing in the end. :)
1. Relearn how to play the piano (it's only been 11 years or so).
2. Join a choir.
3. Make a huge list of books I want to read and then plow through as many as I can.
4. Quit my job, tell upper management exactly what I think of them, throw beads everywhere, and then stomp out with glee. Okay, maybe just the first part.
Oh Kris, delightful! I wish I could be there for number 4, especially to see the bead throwing.
I have done the first part of number 3, and it only makes me feel like I'm wasting my life and making no progress and what am I doing reading The Secret History for a third time when Tender Is the Night is sitting on the shelf untouched, etc., etc. So, um, good luck with that.
Does this mean I will get to see your Christmas decorations when I am home next week? I am going to try to stay in better touch with my friends in 2009!
Oh yeah, I can definitely see myself getting halfway through The Brothers Karamazov and then picking up The Fellowship. Maybe I should pack away all the old favorites, but then I'm sure I would go clawing into the box anyway.
Tender is the Night -- is that Fitzgerald?
Yes Chris, I'm sure they'll still be up next week.
Yes Kris, it's Fitzgerald. I've been intrigued by that book ever since I took a Summer Scholars course at UPJ when I was 17. Dr. Strojan told me that he read Tender Is the Night three times before he really appreciated it. The first two times he didn't like it at all, but he realized the third time that he had only just come to a point in his life where he could appreciate the book. He told me, "some books we're just not ready for." I've always wondered A. if I was ready for that book yet, and B. what made him read the book again two more times after disliking it the first time.
And all this opens up the frightening truth that not only will I never be able to conquer my "books to read" list in my lifetime, but that some books that I conquered and disliked should perhaps be read again when I am older and should go back on the list! Oh, the horror.
And then there are those books that needed to be read when I was younger. The Catcher in the Rye, for example. I was far too mature to enjoy that book by the time I read it at age 19.
I am going to make a "resolution" that every time I fly I want the airline to 1. Cancel my flight and 2. lose my luggage
(Since none of my other resolutions work out, i'm hoping the same will be true with this one :-)
Excellent, Melissa! I hope your luggage made it safely back to Arizona and that you enjoy the new outfit you were forced to buy while in Pennsylvania.
I assume when you come back next week you will have all your clothes in your carry-on, leaving room in your checked baggage to smuggle Galliker's Iced Tea.
Actually I've been thinking about this...perhaps my NEW resolution will be to not pack any luggage, save the $20 per bag fee and take that $40 and always buy new stuff when I arrive....hhmmmm...
Although that won't take care of the transportation of the 49.5 pounds of iced tea I need to return with...
Life is hard!!
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