Every time something significant has happened, I am always doing laundry. I can remember new years eve’s drinking a crown and coke while folding laundry. When the Oklahoma bombing took place, I was folding laundry. When we got the call to turn on our tv to the news on Sept. 11, 2001, you guessed it ….I was folding laundry. This year I was bound and determined to not be folding any laundry when the clock struck midnight. I was so determined in fact that the laundry is still in the dining room in the same basket that it was in when it came out of the dryer. What was I doint at the stroke of midnight? I was in the bed, with the husband….rockin’. *snicker* But I was not. folding. laundry.

* I would like to thank the slumped economy for being so bad that my neighborhood residents could not afford the alcohol and DJ’s needed for their annual loud ass parties, nor the ammunition to shoot their guns off at midnight or three or four minutes afterwards.*

    We made no significant resolutions this year. Just to get out of debt, which was a plan that we had started about six months ago. To get out of debt means that there has to be sacrifices somewhere, and so I took a look into what I could do personally to help out. (besides writing out the budget every month, making sure the bills get paid when they are supposed to and paying extra when we could and adding to savings on top of all of that.) Now, if you know me personally, you know how much I like my little gadgets, especially something that would keep me connected to the world at the snap of a finger. I decided that I didn’t need to be connected so much and to save $360 a year I sold my blackberry on ebay. Kevin just about had a cow and kept telling me I would regret it. He said “but you love your phone and you waited so long to get one. blah blah blah…” I went into verizon and got the cheapest little phone they had and it was the most liberating feeling in the world. The money from the blackberry covered the cost of the new phone and now the only damn time this thing makes a noise is when someone is actually calling. YaY Me!

 Anyway, I want is to be healthy and happy this year. I have the happy part down, and I started working on the healthy about a week ago and am down 3 pounds. It will all work out.