2008: A Brave New Year.
(same old "hasn't he updated this yet?" blog)
Well, it's the first day of a brave new year, which is just as well since the last couple of days in 2007 were rather disappointing. Not to belittle or bother many of you out there tired of the anti-shoppers rant...but why must so many people be that desperate to shop on December 31? Our store ended up doing just as much sales as during its busiest pre-Commercialmas heydays, and everyone just absolutely had to have everything and ask every possible annoying question. (I swear, they all met up together earlier in the day and assigned each group/person a different silly-assed question, since no 2 stupid questions were asked by the same person.)
I distinctly recall 2006 going gently into the night,with shoppers more than content to plague the grocery stores instead of us.
But I rant.
I'm already looking forward to 2008 with the unbridled enthusiasm of someone who hasn't been beaten down by months January through March. Sure, I might end up horribly botching that diet I've been meaning to get back on. Yes, the garage may not entirely get cleaned out in the strictest sense of the words. And certainly, killing Michael Flatley in order to secure my status as the rightful and true Lord of the Dance may have to get put on the backburner (again).
However, my one great endeavour is to stop griping so much about work and how much customers irritate me.
Oh...right.
Wow. Talk about awkwardly destroying a resolution before you even made the resolution. But in my defence, the customers started it.
...but in all seriousness (but not Sirius-ness, since I don't have satellite radio), 2007 had its high and low points, like all the years before it. As my mind's still rather foggy from the Xmas season, it's probably better to wait on retrospection. One can't dwell on the past, but it's hard to know where you're going or why you're headed in that direction if you don't look back & see where you've already been. Philosophical, yes? (I think I paraphrased it off a fortune cookie I got this past summer.)
Mind you, there are a number of realistic goals to be set and (ideally) achieved before 2008 is out. A new vocation, the Project's completion and becoming the one true Lord of the Dance are my top three. Those, and getting people to acknowledge the sexiness that is my ass.
What?
You'd actually think I would start off the year
that seriously?
Today's Lesson: the cake is a lie.
Labels: lies my OS toldme about cake, new year resolutions
posted by Phillip at 4:26 PM
