Happy New Year

Well happy new year everyone! Eeeeyow! Do you realize that we're almost finished with January 2007?

Time flies whether you're having fun or not! And I promise you that the older you get, the faster it seems to fly by. Don't waste one precious moment of it.

Maybe that's really why I always seem to be running late. Or maybe it's really just because I'm so optimistic. HONESTLY! I always think I can make time to do just one more thing before leaving. I never think traffic is going to be bad, I'll be able to zoom right to the door! There will never be a parking problem for me. I'll never have a flat tire. Whatever.

Of course I must also admit that I procrastinate. For example: I FINALLY mailed the last batch of Christmas gifts Friday. And yes, it's still mostly because of my never ending optimism, and my enthusiasm for giving. I always leave the box open because I just know that I will find just one more gift to put in the box before I mail it. That means that when I'm getting ready to leave the house I realize that while I might have time to do one more thing (like turn on the dishwasher, or dryer or something) I really don't have time to look on the shelf in the storage container to see where that one more gift (the one I bought in October) is hiding, and I certainly don't have time to seal up that box and address it so I can take it to the Post Office. Of course I eventually give up on finding that extra gift I bought and send the box anyway, like I did Friday morning.

OK, ok. You're right! The truth is that not only does the time fly by more quickly as I grow older, so does my ability to remember things.

My brother and I must think even more alike that I've realized because I got a birthday card from him last week, even though my birthday isn't until September, just two days after his. But he wrote in the card that he'd found this great card (and it really is a great card - something about prune juice making you dance) at Cracker Barrell and knew he'd better go ahead and send it because if he put it away somewhere he'd never find it to send it in September.

You gotta love that family resemblence!