We all want to change the world. Or maybe just ourselves.2011 has run its course. At the stroke of midnight a brand new year will begin. 2012. Presidential election year. The 100th anniversary of Arizona and New Mexico becoming states, Boston’s Fenway Park and Detroit’s Tiger Stadium (then called Briggs Stadium) opened, and the Titanic sank. The year that supposedly the Mayan calendar runs out (and coincidently the year they were telling us back in the 1970s that Social Security would run out of money…hmmm…).
This past year has been quite the year. The earthquake in Japan and the tsunami, as well as quite a few earthquakes all over including the East Coast. The hurricane that hit New York City. Many things have happened that will insure 2011 will go down in the history books. Each year has its own unique events.
However the one thing that is constant each New Years’ Eve…resolutions.
Every year around this time there are literally hundreds of people asking me, “Have you made any New Years’ resolutions?” “Do you have any New Years’ resolutions yet?” And then they tell me theirs. Lose weight, quit smoking, drink less, spend less, and so on. I am not one to make resolutions for myself on an annual basis, because as we all know resolutions usually get put by the wayside. My ways is to make daily goals and keep working at them.
However, if I were to do yearly resolutions, they would not be so much for me but for others as well. So that people won’t think I am being smug and not do the resolutions thing, here goes:
MY ALL ENCOMPASSING RESOLUTIONS FOR 2012
- Live each day to the fullest.
- Don’t consume time with things that don’t matter and things that cannot be changed.
- Get a haircut that doesn’t make me look like Paul Shafer from the back (pre CBS Late Show days).
- Work toward getting better at remembering names so I stop referring to people as “Dog-Faced Man” and “Woman With A Mole The Size Of A Buick”.
- Strive to make a difference in this world and make contributions to the planet as a whole, like finding a cure for male pattern baldness and inventing potato chips that stay crunchy even if you forget to close the bag.
- Be more disciplined and diligent at blogging more frequently and regularly.
- Learn how to play “Baby Got Back” on the kazoo.
- Read the manual…as soon as I can find it.
- Remember to brush teeth with toothpaste instead of Ben Gay.
- Spend less than one hour a day on the Internet. This, of course, will be hard to estimate since I'm not a clock watcher.
- Spend less money on buying useless stuff like this new Blu-Ray Rewinder I had ordered for Christmas.
- And finally, learn what “resolution” means…other than the picture size my Smartphone camera takes.
Happy New Year everyone! May 2012 be a great one for you all. If not, may it not suck so much as the last year.
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