Time to revisit my past resolutions and see how I did!

1. Work hard, make money.
Success to a point. I worked very hard and I made more money although I have come to the conclusion that working hard isn’t the key to making more money.

2. Buy a new car. The old Chevy Caprice Classic is at the end of its life. It’s time to get a new mode of transport.
100% success! I got rid of the Caprice and I bought a Monte Carlo.

3. If it can be easily swung, get hardwood flooring. The carpets are old and full of Bobo piss.
100% failure. I can easily swing hardwood floors yet I don’t do it. I don’t know why. I want them. I really want them. Yet I can’t seem to pull the trigger on it.

4. Go on vacation. It’s been years since I’ve done any traveling– visit Ireland or Italy or Greece or any place that seems interesting.
100% failure. Rob and I went to Baltimore but that’s it.

5. Private Resolution dealing in family matters I would prefer not to share.
This seems to have resolved itself.

6. Get active. Walk. Move. Dance. No matter if it is cold outside. No matter if I am tired from work.
Semi-success. I think I’m a little more active but I am not where I should be in activity level.

7. Restart Morita Therapy. Stop cutting edges on simple actions. Follow through. Give 100%, always. Keep bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, closet, & office NEAT.
Semi-success. I am doing better but I am still not where I need to be.

I have a terrific headache! I am not sure why. Eveything was fine. I ordered a stomboli and drank a glass of wine. Later I laid down to watch the second disk of Flight of the Conchords. I laughed long and hard.

I think my headache is somehow connected to the overstuffed pillow I used last night.

Maybe I should just go to bed.

Christmas was truly lovely. On Christmas Eve, Rob and I spent the evening with his friends. We had the traditional Italian 7 fishes dinner. Once back at the Donnavilla, we opened our gifts to one another. I gave Rob a belt with a skull buckle (he loves skulls), a DVD set of Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations TV show (he loves Anthony Bourdain) and Guitar Hero video game for the PC (he is a musician). I am pretty sure he was very pleased with his new things!

The next day, Rob and I went to Washington Crossing park to watch the reenactment of Washington crossing the Delaware. The current was very strong and instead of rowing across, the boat was swept away. The emergency motorboat had to be sent out to tow them back to shore.


After the attempt to recreate the crossing, Rob and I went to my parents’ house. We watched the Christmas Story as my mom rushed about the kitchen. We ate around 5:00. The food was delicious! After dinner we opened gifts.

My father loved the Ikea comforter and Nikon CoolPix camera. My mom loved the slippers, pajamas and earrings. I think Rob was tickled that Lisa bought him a Darth Vader cookie jar and my mom gave him a bottle of wine. Lisa is still holding her TomTom GPS unit and I was happy to receive a poncho, 3 sets of underwear, a bracelet, a DVD of Flight of the Conchords (THANKS MOM!) and a black Coach clutch. Although, I think I was more happy that we were altogether regardless of the loot.

Rob and I ended Christmas by watching the first 6 episodes of Flight of the Conchords. Gosh I love that show!

I keep going back and forth between Picasa Web Albums and Flickr. I so want to LOVE Flickr, yet I don’t. I can’t seem to wrap my head around how it works. Picasa on the other hand is so obvious and simple. The real reason I keep going back to Flickr is that it appears to offer a limitless amount of space. Picasa doesn’t. I am currently using 172 MB (16.80%) of my 1024 MB on Picasa. Eventually I will have to upgrade. Yet on the other hand, Flickr only allows 3 “sets” which is extremely limiting. I think my frustration with Flickr is that I am not into the community part of it. All I want is a place to stick my pictures so family and friends can look at them. Ugh!

At any rate, here’s my Christmas Flickr set.

I wish you all a Merry Christmas!

I found this on Youtube while I was searching for Donny and Marie Osmond clips:

It’s Olivia Newton-John and Donny Osmond singing You’re the One That I Want from Grease. It sounds like they changed the melody a little bit. Maybe it was done to better match Donny’s range? Regardless, I think Donny does a great job. He would have made a great Danny! I read somewhere that Marie Osmond was the first choice for Sandy. What a missed opportunity!

Last night my sister and I were sitting in the den and I said to her, “I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle to keep me alive. That would be no quality of life at all, If that ever happens, just pull the plug.”

So she got up, unplugged the computer, and threw out my wine.

She’s such a bitch

(This was actually an email joke forwarded by Erin! It’s so me)

How can I have awaken with energy yet as the morning slowly passes, find myself getting groggier and groggier? Somehow I got mixed up and I feel today is Friday. I know it’s Thursday, I am happy it’s Thursday but it feels a day later. What a cruel joke it will be waking up tomorrow morning and knowing it is Friday and not Saturday.

Yesterday I sent my Christmas cards. I keep thinking of more people I should send a card but it’s too late. I only printed out 75 and I used all but 2 up. That means only customers- and only a select few of them. I wish I had everything on the ball– it would have been great to really go full force with cards. Oh well.

It was a joy waking up to a relatively clean room. And the garbagemen picked up really early this morning so had I not done it last night I would be out of luck.

It’s time to work.