Unpredictable Outcome - A belated New Year's post

Saturday, January 3, 2009 - A belated New Year's post

Earthlings, I greet you and wish you all a happy new year. (I would wish any non-earthlings a happy new year as well, just in case any happen to be reading this, but I doubt they would much care about our new year.)

After we watched (on TV, of course) the ball in Times Square drop, I became quite certain of something I'd been suspecting for a few days: it isn't really a big deal to me anymore. When I was younger, it used to be cool to stay up late. By now, I've stayed up much later than midnight, several times.

There's a lot of hype about the new year, about starting fresh, I suppose. But the need to start fresh implies that I've done something wrong, and I don't want to have - though i often do. I don't want to need to start fresh.

What then? Is it all the possibilities? all the possibilities spread before you in a whole year? Are there any more possibilities than there were on Dec 31st? Or June 8th, even.

Is it that it's a shiny, brand new year that sparkles cheerily, as opposed to the dingy old year that we just left? Well, I don't know about you, but to me 12:01 Jan 1st looked a whole lot like 11:59 Dec 31st.

I don't mean to get you down, really. And if you're the type to celebrate, why not? Have fun! I don't see any reason not to, seeing as the twelve day of Christmas - celebrating the birth of our savior - are still in effect. And if you like the idea of a brand new year, enjoy. As for me, after I watched the brightly-lit ball signify midnight (and wrinkled my nose at all the people kissing passionately in public) I went back to reading my book.

Life is just as good as it was a few days ago.

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Monday, January 12, 2009 - Untitled Comment

I decided that I wasn't above using the rush of excitement over new year beginnings, even though I knew they would be temporary. I've been calling it 'pretending to be organized' and laughing at myself, even as it's actually (mostly) worked to make me keep my room clean and fish the dirty socks out of my bed instead of letting them collect. :-)

I am however very bad at figuring out how I'm supposed to celebrate the exact moment. Gabrielle and I usually hang out and watch a movie on New Year's Eve (while James and Theresa and Seth and Crystal hang out and play games or something at the other house--that way everyone gets to 'party' while none of the children are left alone in the house). We traditionally set an alarm for midnight so we can pause the movie, say, "Yep, it's a new year," glance around with a feeling that there should be something more to say, and then start the movie back up. :-)

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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - Untitled Comment

Sounds like fun

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