Happy New Year

Father Time & The New Year
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Here's my New Year's resolutions:

1. I resolve to lose fifteen pounds between January 1st and April 1st and then slowly gain it all back plus a couple extra between April 2nd and December 31st.

2. I resolve to read the first 30% of the Brothers Karamozov, again.

3. I resolve to play phone tag with the three or four old friends I've lost touch with, before just forgetting about them again for another five or six years.

4. I resolve to continue in my steadfast commitment to procrastination.

5. If my cell phone and ATM card ever turn up, I resolve to lose them again about every three weeks or so.

6. I resolve to lose more hair.

7. I resolve to intend to be faithful to my one year reading plan for the whole Bible.

8. I resolve to get restless somewhere in the middle of the book of Numbers and then just read whatever Biblical books I feel like reading for the rest of the year and promise that I'll really stick with it in 2007.

9. I resolve to drink more coffee.

10. I resolve to spend just as much money on music downloads as I did last year and rationalize it by telling myself "hey, at least you're not stealing it off of Kazaa or whatever".

11. I resolve to continue feeling guilty for not painting more frequently.

12. I resolve to keep my morning prayer time sporadic, scatter-brained and unfocused.