2010: What the heck happened to time? It seems like yesterday it was 1999 and I was panicked and buying bottled water because I had a baby at home, and I was worried the world would crash and I would have no water to mix up formula.
It also seems like just a little bit earlier I was in the peak of thinking I was cool as a senior at Nevada High School in 1985.
Time flies and as new years come and go, I know we are supposed to reflect and make life-altering resolutions.
Maybe I am getting old. Here is how last year’s resolution went for me — this is a true story, you can’t make this stuff up. I made a resolution last year to utilize my super-nice and expensive True Treadmill.
There is no issue with the treadmill. It is great. Great for draping sweaters and bras across it to let them dry. I kept it in my bedroom and it was like the darn thing looked at me every morning and tried to make me feel guilty about breaking my resolution.
Move it forward to spring, and my Paul mentions he would love to get back into running more and he wishes he had a treadmill like mine. This was an opportunity for me to be a good sharing person, free up tons of space in my bedroom and not have to look at that thing and feel guilty anymore.
I offered to let him take the treadmill to his house to use, telling him I would much rather run outside anyway. So, Paul and his son Aaron come over to move the beast of a machine.
As they moved it, they found a powdered Hostess donut underneath. No kidding.
This is the kind of thing that happens only to me, and those two laughed for about an hour. Honestly, I never ran on the thing and ate donuts, mainly because I never ran on it in general.
The only explanation I can think of is that Allison (my youngest) watches TV in my room a lot. Maybe, while she was watching TV, she dropped her snack, the dog tried to grab it and jammed it under the treadmill.
Anyway, he added that to the stories he likes to tell on me. I am not sure it has actually logged any miles at his house. And I found a Doritos chip under it the other day while vacuuming.
So what will 2010 bring to me? New Year’s Eve will probably be a small get-together at my house with our friends Doug and Brenda Jagels and all our kiddos. We will probably have some yummy New Year’s Eve type snacks, and — assuming we can make it to midnight — Paul has promised the kids some fireworks.
If you live near me and hear fireworks about 10 p.m., we are getting old. Obviously, neither of us are doing much running on that treadmill, which would give us the energy to stay up past 10 p.m.
So what will my resolution be for 2010? I’m not going to kid myself and tell you I am aiming for a 6-pack of abs or to get into size 2 jeans. I probably won’t organize all my pictures or clean out all my closets either, and if I do you won’t probably notice by April.
I am going to try to worry less and laugh more. I am going to appreciate the little things and try to let all the things I can’t control go.
Heck, let’s be honest: My main goal, which my bank will appreciate, will be to remember to write “2010” on the date part of my checks. That is about all I can attempt with success until, in just 12 short months, we plan another New Year’s Eve to bring in 2011. It will probably again be with Doug and Brenda and lots of snacks, and hopefully a many more fun stories about the crazy things we do during the year to share.
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