Happy New Year! Do you make resolutions? I usually have the standards
going: exercise more, eat less, boring ones…. In the past I’ve done a few good
ones that were easy to keep. One year I tried to pick up at least one piece of
someone else’s litter every day. One year I resolved to make my bed every day.
That was only mildly successful. This year, I think it’s going to be about the details. I
resolve to:
Keep up the
mani/pedi. When I was younger, I used to be much better about having nice
looking nails. Now it seems that I don’t really give a shit. So I walk around
with chippy polish on my toes, and mostly no polish on my hands. That changes
NOW. I did my nails yesterday at home, all by myself, saving the family
money!!!
Plan outfits for
work. I used to be better about this too. But it seems that lately I will
just slap on whatever seems easy for work. Sometimes (a lot of times), it’s
jeans and a sweater or shirt, all fine, but not planned with much care. And I
still haven’t pulled the trigger on the “outfit of winter 2013/2014”. While all
the other gals are mincing around town in cute low boots or high boots or over
the knee boots in brown and black and whatever, I can’t decide what to get, so
I don’t have ANY boots and I don’t look cute at all. WTF??? Why can’t I just
pull the freaking trigger and get some boots? Here’s why! The boots I want are
Prada and they cost $1400 f*ing dollars!!!!! Why hasn’t someone knocked them
off yet so I can get them. I’m looking everywhere and apparently nobody has the
balls to copy Prada for cheaper. C’mon people, I’m waiting. And hurry up, the
trend is about to run out of steam before I even get started.
Accessorize.
Seriously! I have cute accessories, bracelets, earrings, barrettes, hats,
scarves, whatever, name it….. and I leave the house and can’t even get as far
as lipstick for work. What the hell is the matter with me? Ennui? Perhaps! I
have got to cute it up, man! So, I vow to make an effort. Get up a few minutes
earlier, and get it done.
Ruin Comcast.
Does anyone out there hate Comcast as much as I do? Those fuckers are
extortionists! Your cable company may be different, but here in Seattle, we are
forced to pay Comcast/Xfinity or whatever the hell they are called for lousy
service and bad attitudes so we can watch Homeland. Or whatever. So, in 2014,
bye bye Comcast, we’re cutting you down to basic cable and we’re closing you
out for internet. We have options and you can’t screw us anymore. (We’ll see
how this goes, I may be back later with a sad story about how Comcast won and I
lost.) But for now, it’s on MFers!
See what a budget
looks like. Yep, I said it. We are going to make a budget. For good
reasons. Not because we are spending too much, but so that we can track and/or
make a reasonable guess as to how much spending we should allocate where, and
how much we can put away for retirement. This is a super boring one, but if you
go back to how badly I want those Prada boots – you will understand that if I had
a clothing budget I could actually save and get them instead of nickel and
diming my way through Gap and Banana Republic for shitty clothes that don’t last.
I want nice clothes and if I knew my budget I could get them. I WILL HAVE THEM.
I’m not angry. :)
Ok, I think that covers it for the beginning of 2014. No
need to overdo resolutions. I’ll let you know how it’s going. Should be
awesome. Gotta go, It’s time to put on some lipstick. Wah!
