The Last Day of the Year

And here I am, awake as it officially begins.

Actually, I tried to go to bed, but then I got up to take a quick peek at e-mail and found Tee-Hee online, and that was that. Up for another 90 minutes longer than I had intended.

: )

Previously, I have always felt that this particular time of the year should be great for some really deep thinking. And, perhaps if I were a really deep thinker, I would do some of that.

Alas: I am not. And so, instead of thinking, I babble.

I did think, earlier today (which was actually yesterday), about the possibility of making a New Year’s Resolution. I cannot remember the last time I made one. I mean, over the last 7 or 8 years, maybe longer, I have made it a point to give up something for Lent (I guess I figure I have a better chance of lasting from Ash Wednesday to Easter or thereabouts than I do for an entire year!), but I haven’t bothered with any kind of resolution.

Perhaps it’s because, in the past, I’d resolve to give up something that I knew, deep inside, I absolutely could not give up. (Apparently, it’s all about denial for me!) It was like, OK, I’m never going to _______ again ... and then, 3 days into the brand-spankin’ new year, there I was, doing exactly what I had vowed not to do, hence ruining the entire rest of the year!

My 2006 resolution, however, has a built-in cheat factor: If I slack off in any way, I can make it up the next day ... or the next.

I resolve to write one page a day for the entire year.

No rules, no predetermined topics, no spelling or grammar checks. (Like I use those, anyway! Gimme a break!) No nothing, really, except that I have to write one page worth of something, every day. So that, at the end of the year, I have 365 pages of stuff I have written.

And, with the knowledge going in that sometime during the course of the next 3 months, my computer will undoubtedly CRASH, I will also require myself to save each page to a floppy disk (how charmingly retro!) and print out whatever I’ve gotten done at the end of each week.

So, there! It’s in writing; there’s no backing out now!

(Check back with me in a year and we’ll see what I came up with.)

: )