At Walgreens; I asked the clerk, what are your hopes for the new year? After a pause she said, "I just hope that all the people out of a job can find one and there are so many people depressed I hope they can get over that. Someone else walked up and she proceeded to tell us; look I grew up so poor that I never had spaghetti and meatballs til I was grown. As for me I don't expect much but I know how to get along." She spoke for so many among us.

I love dancing! I dance or bop when I'm cleaning the house, mowing a yard, buying groceries. I used to love going out to a club and dancing my ass off for hours! Totally unproductive, but I could waste a life doing it. I'm not that good at it. I'll watch people dance and I pale in comparison to what I consider a good dancer is. It doesn't stop me though.

I haven't gone dancing in years. I don't even know what music is playing in the clubs where one can dance. If it's the...

So I hope everyone who went out to celebrate last eve made it home safely and had a good time. I also hope you all are feeling good today without any left over residuals from your celebrating.

It is another new year, the first day of the rest of your life. That can be said about any day though but it appears to be more important on an "official holiday".
What is the importance of the new year? The new beginning? The new start? Is it really that important or is it...

Happy New Year to all!

My New Year started a few months ago. However, things that i will accomplish this year...

Continue to write this blog. It is interesting to me to read through these and see patterns that I may have not allowed myself to be aware of.

When I feel I'm slipping into a funk I will continue to find something else to do that is new to me.

I will sell my house in SC.

I will start college in the summer.
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That sounds funny doesn't it? Oh well, one of those things that will not change except I should probably make it: The last calendar day of the last calendar month of the current year.
Different words, same result.

On to traditions set in place many many moon rises ago, New Year's Resolutions.
Do you partake with this particular tradition?
If you do what are your resolutions?
Are they traditional, non traditional, for fun, serious?
Do you follow through...