View From a New Window

Well, here it is at last! New Year's Eve.  I feel under some obligation to wax poetic about the year that is coming to a close, or something expansive about my hopes for the new year.  Truth is, I'm not going to do either.  (Don't hold me to the last part, because as this progresses I may change my course!)

The thing is, that I don't quite get the hub bub about New Year's.  I'm not one to make resolutions.  It's not that I don't think about them, and it's not that I don't think there are things that I should change about myself.  Perhaps it's that there are too many, and I'm not inclined to rate them and decide which ones are urgent and which ones I can put off until next year.  Really.....

a) I don't like being told what to do....even if it is myself!

b) If a person has something that they need to be resolved about, why wait until New Years?  Why wait until Monday, or the the beginning of the month?  Just do it!  Putting it off only appears to me to be proof of resistance to change which only leads to

c) Failure.  According to the University of Scranton, 25% of Americans break their New Year's resolutions after one week of making them.  It's down hill from there.

I am spending this night of celebration in one of my favorite places.  Hubby and I are sitting in bed, watching TV, and playing dueling computers.  It might sound rather dull for those of you who are party animals, but it is in all honesty the best place to spend New Years for me.  We will stay up to see the New Year in.  It may be New Years in New York, or England, or.....

Anyway, Happy New Year and don't forget to Sing!

Blessings for:
- A fresh coat of paint.
- Kissing good-bye to 2011.  To those of you who use paper calendars- don't let the trash can pinch your fingers as you throw it away!
- Quiet nights with the one I love.