This post could also have started with a question: what's worse than working thirteen hours on a Friday? Returning to work at 7:30 AM on Saturday, or why I'm a bad blogger.
Maybe bad is pushing it, but it was a couple of weeks ago now when my darlin pulled up the front page of this humble pot of blogular slooge, pulled her cursor to the date of my last post and gave me the look that also means "it's your turn to empty the dishwasher and you didn't and you don't plan to either and that really makes me cross."
It's not that I suck at writing, I'm ok. It's more that thing where I want it to be good all the time so I sort of choke when I'm not ready to spew greatness at you. Then, when I do post it's more because the non-posting guilt has built to an unbearable level. This also makes me forget what great thing I thought of to post about two days earlier and the result is a post like the one you are now reading.
All this brings me to my New Year's Resoultion. In 2008, I will post every single day. I think I will get better at expressing myself if I do it all of the time. I think that I will process half-processed ideas better if I make myself write about these gayenvironmentmedschool things.
But the really great part about this resolution is that I can still procrastinate posting for twenty-five more days! What freedom that will be.
This feels like a good resolution because it is weighty, but also do-able. In that way, it is similar to this year's resolution, although decidedly less beneficial for the world in general. This year I vowed to not purchase newly made items and dragged my darlin along for the ride. And I'm almost there! Nothing new! We made exceptions for the gray area of food and anything directly related to health. I am now a serious garage-sale pro. I am a knower of all things Salvation Army (aka Pier 2) ((Wednesday is half off!!)).
Anyway, as impact-lite as last year's resolution was, out the window it goes for this jaunt into the blogosphere. Also going is last year's no-soda resolution. I think I'm replacing it with no soda except for root beer in a bottle and anything in a mixed drink.
When I saw out the window concerning last year's resolution, I don't really mean that. What I really mean is that I've learned its lessons and made it a part of my life now. I'm just never going to buy something new when I can get it quality used. It's so obvious when in this consumer culture, my neighbors, or rather those folks who live several neighborhoods over, throw away everything I need. Also less plastic, more glass!
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