Happy 2010!! It is a new year and a new decade and my sincere wish is for health and happiness and growth and insight for everyone reading this----and for me, too. Heaven knows, I need all the insight I can conjure up to get me through the days.
No, no, no! There will not be any New Year’s Resolutions from me. If you read last year’s Ramblings you understand why I despise them. These useless diatribes so often made out of pure guilt from the night or days or weeks before the incoming New Year, leave me empty and annoyed. I know, I know, the intention of said Resolution Maker was for improvement or a step in the right direction, but I have a very short fuse for any of it. In fact, this leads me to my next subject which has been “rambling” around inside my head since the beginning of December.
It all began with my very good friend, Debbie, (see, I am going to make you famous!!!!) who told me she was not going to include her family’s Christmas letter in their Christmas card to us because she knows how much I detest them. I cannot understand how a litany of little Suzie or Johnny’s soccer awards, the rehashing of the perfect family vacation, the purchase of a trophy home, the cooking awards won by Betty Homemaker, or how many times the family progeny made the Honor Roll have the slightest bit of reference to the celebration of the holidays. These are the days we hold most dear to our hearts. I know, I have digressed here and I do not mean to wander. I just wanted to set the stage. So, back to my friend Debbie. Debbie did not want me to accuse her of being “ooey gooey.” Then she really threw me a curve ball. She told me I was “ooey gooey” every month in my Ramblings!!!! Help!! The last thing I ever want to be held accountable for is being “ooey gooey.” It has never been my intention to slather my words in saccharine, sappy, cheesy or nauseating thoughts and sentences. In fact, I am the first one to poke fun at myself. I have always believed that if you cannot laugh at yourself first, who can you laugh at??? I pride myself in dosing out two shots of reality sprinkled with a hearty dose of sarcasm. My Mother always told me that some day I was going to get a knuckle sandwich. Frankly, I think I just did-----a left handed one, at that, from Debbie.
I shall try very hard not to be “ooey gooey” in the upcoming months. Oh my, did I just make a resolution?? And, most importantly, I still love you very much Pebra!! You are and always will be my oldest child. Joy to all in 2010!
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