I Have No Answers or Intentions

It is New Years Day, a chance for so many things.

I woke up this morning at about six o clock and proceeded to be very unwell. What is it about wanting to end one year on a high and begin the next on a low, like 'having to sleep on the bathroom floor in minus degrees because of having drank too much cheap schnapps' kind of low? Should it not be the other way around? Would it not be so much more liberating to feel terrible and miserable only for something great to happen and the world seem like a fantastic place again?

I tend to get philosophical and cheesy as well as a major downer around this time of year, but only because I generally believe each day should be savoured but realise and accept that I don't have the motivation or will power to do so. And that is why I sit around all day complaining about how bored I am and pretending to have interesting hobbies, like reading comics instead of drawing my own. And also the best way to enjoy something is to have exceedingly low expectations to begin with and go from there (hence why I attempted, the best I could, to destroy the souls of The Finn and Red Hair before the rest of our guests arrived last night! Sorry about that.) Now that I've explained the major downer part, the getting all philosophical and cheesy up in this place part.

The End of Year Review:

1. What song perfectly describes for you the year past?
2. What piece of work was the highlight of the year for you?
3. Most memorable moment of the year past?
4. Describe in one word the year past?
5. In ten years time, do you think you will be able remember where you were and what you were doing on the first and last day of the year past?

Yes that's right, I go in for all this sort of thing, even though this day is just one of 365/6 other days that the earth happens to experience as it runs around in circles in the empty vacuum of space. But its still nice to sum things up and know exactly how you feel about them. Or maybe its just the case that I've had a fantastic last year and hope that my friends have too! And yup, just before midnight I was asking this of folk.

I also, willfully and happily take part in the tradition of New Year's Resolutions. In my youth I failed every year, just as I did with my Lenten promise and those aspiration thingys (or should that be thingies?) for advent that the nuns used make us write out in school, but I think it was only because in my youth I promised to give up sweets and help out more and that sort. Things that didn't necessarily make me a better person and certainly not happier, so instead the last three or four years its been more habit forming resolutions that won't make me a better person but to some degree a different person, and yeah all the better for it.

My New Years Resolutions:

1. Be more motivated, finish the things I start and start more things.
2. Don't be sad, accept the way things are and don't dwell, it doesn't provide any solutions and leads you further away from being happy again.
3. Keep in touch with the new friends I make, they could turn out to be the most important people in my life, and what is a text every now and again or a messgae on facebook anyway?

Happy New Year and Regards Folks