It's time for New Year's Lies!

This is a most holy time of year. This is the time of year that people will spend all day lying to themselves. It's a peculiar rite called "New Year's Resolutions".

How it works:
Prep work for this can start weeks and months before actual New Year's Day. People will start building themselves with what are popularly termed as white lies. "On New Year's, I am a changed person! I will no longer overeat. I will donate to charity. I will recycle. I can't wait! On New Year's day, a new ME is born!"

As it gets closer to New Year's , this practice gets louder and louder.

On New Year's Eve, People will have their last hurrah. If the resolution was to lose weight, they will pig out at a buffet. If it was to donate to charity, they will go blow money on hookers and blow. They feel entirely justified in these actions because they will be new people the next day.

New Year's Day will involve people cheerfully carrying about their new mandates as though they were a mantle of gold and silver. They will abhor all of their vices.

Then a week will pass.

Then another.

Then another.

Pretty soon things start to slip. Cheesecake here...No Dime to the March of Dimes there....and then the lies start.

"Oh well I had to eat that cake." or "I'll get St. Jude's later. I'm a little light this month."

By April, the resolutions are forgotten until roughly September. The cycle begins again.

Which brings me to the most important part of this missive.

My Resolutions! Ta Da!

In years past, I wrote one of these every year and reported if I actually maintained my resolutions. Sadly, my old site is gone and those missives are lost to the intertubes somewhere.

So 2010.....
1. I have 40 more lbs to lose. Actually being honest, I have slightly more than that to lose but not enough for me to break out a calculator and be exact.
2. I think I screwed myself out of one of the cum laudes so I will settle for the lowest cum laude I can graduate with. Magna? Summa? Hell if i remember.
3. There are a few more that can all be rolled into the category of "Fuck that Motherfucker". Sufficeth to say...yeah...Fuck all that noise. The best Revenge one can have is living well so I have been told. I am not so sure about that but it's a cute saying and we all know those are always right, right?

We'll see how it works out. It's in print now and I do try to keep my prevarications to a minimum.