Year of the Rat

Despite it being the year of the second most disgusting creature on planet earth (just a hair short of the cockroach, both of which we have plenty of here in the big apple) I, like most of the world, am always highly optimistic at the beginning of a New Year. And I, like most of the world am always disappointed about three days into said new year, when nothing seems to glitter like gold. In Corporate America we call this: SSDD, but instead of it being the same shit, different day, it's a different year or SSDY. Big whoop. That's right, I said big whoop. And maybe your 86 year old great Aunt from Canada says that too!

Anyway, maybe this will be the year it all changes, what changes I'm not so sure, but by golly (that's right, I said by golly) "it" will change!! [Double bang there for emphasis.] Maybe this will be the year I get up the gumption to move "west" to Chicago, buy a brownstone with a fenced in yard, get another puppy, name him Duke or Scooter and live happily ever after in the bitter cold long winters. Or...maybe not. Maybe this will be the year my blog is nominated for a Blogger's Choice Award and I get so much publicity from it that I can quit my day job and blog for a living making enough money to pay off my loans AND buy a place in Manhattan. Then I can just take pictures for pocket money and fun and travel around the world in my super awesome private plane and can then afford to buy the things I see on all my design blogs or more specifically from the store design within reach which is LIE for nothing is within reach from that store, except for millionaires, I mean. Or...maybe not! Probably most definitely not. Maybe this will be the year I win the lottery and can do all of those things and throw in a place in Hawaii and pay off all my friends' loans. This would be a good time to step forward if you are in fact, a loyal reader of my blog.

The truth is, I don't have any super big plans or resolutions to make and then later break for this new year. I want to run another marathon, or two. I'd like get back into taking lots of pictures. I'd like to learn Spanish. And do more charity work. We'll see. There's plenty more fun to come; stay tuned...it's gonna be a good* year!

*By good I mean mediocre, a solid medium