This year I made 3 New Years resolutions. Then I have added a 4th that was on last years list of resolutions and also which a friend so pointedly pointed out the other day. That one being list making.
List making is a great idea. It provides structure in an otherwise chaotic world. I need some structure in my somewhat otherwise chaotic world. So today I made that first list. Would it be cheating if I started out by listing my other 3 New Years Resolutions? Hey ya got to start somewhere.
So number one on the list was to DO SOMETHING NICE TO SOMEONE EVERY DAY. A good thing since I can be the ever reclusive asshole. I thought of my old neighbor friend Mary today whose dog was put to rest some time back(I really need to learn how to link to my own past blogs...help! ). Anyway with the ulterior motive of fulfilling resolution #1, I climbed Marys stairs to wish her a happy new year. No answer. OK, try again later.
On to #2(EACH DAY I WILL CLEAN AND/OR ORGANIZE MY APARTMENT) This is highly important and I think will go a long way towards making me feel better in general. This bachelor historically does not give a shit how messy his apartment is and only cleans when he has to and usually not even then. So today the kitchen counter tops witnessed a scrubbing. As did the stove and refrigerator. Even the microwave smiles now. But the night is young. Heck I may get down on hands and knees and scrub the kitchen floor next. What a fucking miracle that would be!
#3 has to do with WRITING EVERYDAY. I have a dream to write. And I have a home course on Copy writing which has received procrastination treatment in a not so good way. Today wanting to do that #3 on my highly uncoveted New Years resolutions list, I opened up the course and began again where I last left off. Feels good. Yeahhhh.
At this point I will pat myself on the back for doing today what I should already have been doing. I will even pat myself on the back for that 2 loads of laundry done which were not on any list, just sprawled out on the floor.
Maybe there is hope for this ole dog. Some new tricks perhaps?
Ohhhhh, before I blog off, I must tell you that before I made it back to Mary's to wish her a smiling Happy New Year, she knocked on my door and beat me to the punch. I did express extra wishes her way and smiled widely but....
...still, I feel the need to do something else. Maybe call all three kids tonight. They don't expect it on New Years Day...
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2 comments:
good man! and good resolutions they are, too!
Thank you Zooty!
I look at it this way...if I will do these things all year long, I will have one flippin organized and clean place in which to live, be nice to others(and thereby getting out of myself more), and do something I really like, write.
Basically it comes down to doing stuff I should be doing anyway...
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