I don’t know about you, but by the time I get to New Year’s eve I’m wiped out. Maybe it’s all the excitement around Christmas. The shopping and cooking, the friends and relatives, all the “catching up”. Maybe it’s the lasagna, or the nog (do you even KNOW how many egg yolks go into that stuff?) By the time I’m done, I spend the 26th in a coma, the 27th feels like the first day out of bed after a bad flu, the 28th through the 30th I’m figuring out where to put all the Bath and Body Works lotions, and the herbal teas I got from my Aunt Brenda. While shoving yet another scarf into the closet.
On the 31st I need a nap, and a belt extender. (Note to self: must lose 10 pounds by birthday.)
The last thing I want to do is put on a little black ANYTHING and consume one more ounce of alcohol. Even as I write this I’m crunching on lettuce drenched in white vinegar, no oil, and cucumbers, because it’s zero points (that’s right, I said points) and those things go fast!!
Sheesh.
I’ve decided that my new year’s resolution is to be totally self sufficient. Now, I know what you’re thinking, “YOU Cassidy? YOU aren’t self sufficient? COME ON!” Well, I hate to break it to you, but I rely far too much on others to conduct my daily life and I’m sick of it. And it’s my own fault. Mine, and no one else’s. There are so many things that I can’t do by myself. Like what? Okay, I can’t update my own website for instance. I can’t change photos, or add songs or post a new Ask Cassidy episode. Someone does that for me. And, I’ve been in a band so long there are songs I WROTE that I can’t play anymore on my guitar. Simply can’t do it…..not to save my life.
And there are other things, I NEED other people to do for me, that this time next year I will be doing myself. Or, if someone is still doing it for me, it won’t be because I can’t. It’ll be because I don’t have to.
There’s freedom in that. And I’m looking forward to it.
Yep, 2008 is gonna be a good year. I’m giving myself the gift of self reliance. And the gift of fitting back into my jeans.
I hope yours is happy!
Love,
Cass
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Oh yes~! I know just how you feel.
I also will have to count the points after this holiday is over.
There is just tooooo much food during the holidays. It’s really tough not to eat all the goodies, especially in an italian family, if you know what I mean. I wish I hated food or made me sick.. No such luck everything I like is filled with calories. I just can’t eat if it doesn’t contain butter or sour cream or pasta… Oh well, 2008 is going to be another chance to get those eating habits in order. Lots of luck to you also!! Happy Holidays
Miss you all,
Love, Nancy
I wondered about how much ‘technical difficulties’ meant something about a beach in California……
I am with you about New Years, I taken a semi hidden pleasure in having a child with a birthday on New Year’s Eve – this provides an excuse to stay home.
I think each generation confronts an expanded definition of self sufficiency. It sure means a great deal more for this generation then say, a hundred years ago or a hundred thousand years ago.
The truth is never to stop learning….but grow less and back into the jeans if you grok that need.
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
‘ all the “catching up” ‘.
That’s about all I did last night with a 10th grade (1977) former class-mate of mine and her second husband. I haven’t seen her in, basically 30 years while still living for the first 17 of them in the same hometown. Lotsa catch up on.
“Yep, 2008 is gonna be a good year”.
I’ve got a feeling ‘08
Is going to be a good year.
Especially if you and AR
Are sticking together.
So you think ‘08 is going to be a good year.
It could be for you and AR,
For you and AR forever!
I had no reason to be over optimistic,
But somehow when you smiled
I could brave bad weather
“the gift of fitting back into my jeans”.
Last night I noticed I had trouble fitting into my 6 years old festive outfit.
Happy New Year and best of luck with everything you do in 2008!
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