Thursday, December 31st, 2009...8:38 am
#166: Don’t Go Hatin’ On New Year’s
Sense a theme here? That’s right, I’m a recovering holiday hater, and I’m insisting that you be one too.
And I have hope about this New Year’s Eve, the same way I always have hope that a transatlantic airplane ride might actually be enjoyable and relaxing. It’s still early in the morning, after all, and the whole family is asleep, the snow sifting down. me sitting near the lit Christmas tree, typing instead of cleaning, cooking, or trying to have yet more fucking fun.
Yeah, I’m enjoying it so far because right now it feels like real life — you know, the one where everybody leaves the house and you’re there alone with your work and your thoughts. The one you — or at least I — feel guilty about wishing would get here again, already.
And in the interest of not acting old, I have some resolutions about enjoying this New Year’s Eve. I am going to be optimistic that next year will be (even) better than the last one. I won’t dwell on the fact that the coming decade will be my last before I become a (totally) old lady. I will have fun with my family and friends and not wish, at 12:01, that everyone would go home so I could go to sleep, and then, at 12:20, when everyone DOES go home because they’re old too, I won’t feel irrationally hurt and abandoned.
I will not wake up at 6 tomorrow morning no matter how late I go to bed tonight.
When I finally give up trying to go back to sleep and come downstairs at 6:35, I will not eat all the leftover cookies and cake before everybody else wakes up. I will not clean up the house by myself and then punish my husband by being pissed off at him until February. I will not even for one second fantasize about slipping away to the airport, taking a plane to Buenos Aires, draining the home equity line to pay for plastic surgery, and living out my days on the beach with a 24-year-old named Fernando.
Happy New Year everyone and thank you for visiting How Not To Act Old!
6 Comments
December 31st, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Must I remind you that 24 year old males can be really annoying?! otherwise it all sounds good.
December 31st, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Oh, okay. 27.
January 3rd, 2010 at 12:01 am
“I won’t dwell on the fact that the coming decade will be my last before I become a (totally) old lady.”
Yikes! By the end of this decade, I’ll have turned 60. I shouldn’t have read that so close to bedtime.
Happy New Year, girlfriend! I’m with you–2010 is going to be (even) better.
January 22nd, 2010 at 10:26 am
You are so spot on, I’m old and avoid Christmas every year! Yet when I was younger I loved Christmas – so this is sooo true!
January 25th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
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January 25th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
I’m not sure whether this is a serious question, but I started as a wordpress blog and then switched over to a private server and had help designing this site from the divine J. P. Welch — see link below. I don’t worry about search engines punishing me because I mean nothing to them.
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