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Yup, it’s that time of year – everyone is making resolutions, and I am no different.  Mine tend to be the same every year – either restart or keep up with my workouts (this year: restart), do a better job of keeping up with the house, etc, etc.  I added a fun and (hopefully) easy one this year – a 365 photo project.

And this time of year, there are always countless articles on how making New Year’s Resolutions is mainly just a recipe for failure.  I will grant them this – people tend to set out goals that are too broad and too easy to result in early failure and cause folks to just give up on them before January is even in the rear-view mirror.

But, this is what I love about our society – we still have the optimism each year to say, “Dammit, this year is going to be different!  It’s going to be better!  I am going to really try harder!!”  Sure, we should likely scale it down to “new month resolutions” and put more concrete, achievable markers on what we want to accomplish – but I love the fact that every year, we at least give “doing it all better” a whirl for a few days at least.

So, here’s do being better at everything at least until January 5th.  Maybe this year we can all extend it to the 7th.

I’ve decided this is going to be a good year come hell or high water. New decade and all that happy horseshit.

-2 Furnace died
+1 Little bro has a rockin’ little space heater
-1  Spent most of the morning in bed cause it was the warmest place in the house (though that could be a positive…)
+1  Furnace fixed
-1 Furnace not fixed for free (never is, but one can dream)
+1 Leftover hashbrown casserole for lunch
+1 Got in a workout today
+1 My grandmother has not called to complain about anything today
+2 Took a good look in the mirror and other than one unfortunate crease in my forehead, I’m not looking my age today.

Net +3. Not a half bad day. Now, if I can just keep this trend up for the rest of the year, things should be good.