A few thoughts went through my head last night about life...
1.) New Years Eve is better when the last time you're outside for the year is NOT for dumpster diving purposes.
2.) Maybe Justin Bieber should be on TV EVERY night... you never saw a couple of girls move through our one and only bathroom more quickly.
3.) Between semesters there should be NO homework assigned in high school, jr. high school OR grade school... just like in college. Parents definitely should not be assigned homework over Christmas. This much homework only encourages "burn-out" for all involved and children still need a childhood. Let ME give that to my children.
4.) Keep it simple! Crackers and Cheese with strawberries for dessert should be eaten as a meal more often! Never a better meal in my two year old's opinion and never easier to prepare in my opinion.
5.) Long distance phone calls... still amazing and wonderful technology in my book, living so far away from my parents and all of my scattered siblings.
6.) Appreciate creative humor in others! Humor is healthy... let someone drop an actual ball on the floor at midnight and shout "Happy New Year" with them. Then laugh with them a little.
7.) To Fix or Not to Fix? That is the question... Either choice scares me! I had a sudden dread fear that all the things that need "fixing" in life (you know, goals) might not actually get improved upon in 2012 if I don't really exercise some discipline. Darn those impossible perfectionist yet fear of failure traits.
8.) Don't forget to toast (whether with sparkly juice or actual crispy, buttered toast) the really important yet simple things in life... like health and family. You never know when unexpected changes will arise and change everything. Appreciate what you have and feel that what you have is enough.
9.) Yes! Time goes by seemingly faster with each passing year... too fast for some reasons and not fast enough for other reasons.
10.) And Finally, my cat climbed, child undecorated tree a dozen times a day for the past month is looking... tired. It IS time for a fresh, clean start!
Sunday, January 1, 2012
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Thanks for the thoughts! Fun to read and think about! Hopefully this is a good year for the whole family. Sounds like you had a fun New Years Eve! I hurried through checking my patients so we could toast with sparkling grape jc. And watch the ball, which I just barely managed (we all went into an open rm. In front of the nurses' station at 2359!) and tried to watch the ball but I swear we couldn't see it through all the dazzle of Lady Gaga's headpiece! We all brought something to share and managed to put on a good spread and enjoyed at least part of the night AND managed to have the first baby of the new year in Rochester at 0019!
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