New Year's Resolutions

One of my college friend's Facebook status posting from today:

"Remember when we were 'gonna party like it's 1999' and 1999 seemed SO far away? Hard to believe it's going to be 2010."

This is so, so true! I am still just trying to figure out where the 1990's went, and now a whole 'nother decade has flown by as well. The sands of time sure are slipping through that hourglass faster and faster, it seems. Wasn't it just yesterday that WWD was the age of MPD (and MRD was already six months old--yikes!), and I was a new stay-at-home mom in the Chicago suburbs? Funny how these kids keep growing up so fast--Bill and I never seem to age a bit!! :)

But seriously. I must say that I don't favor New Year's Resolutions. After all, I'm already perfect and stuff. (Or at least, so deeply in denial of my numerous faults that I don't even want to think about them!) But this year, I want to put two of them out there--here in public, where you can call me on it next year. Actually I think these are my same two main resolutions from every other year--same as everyone else's, too, more or less--but I must try. No pain, no gain, right?

So without further ado, here they are:

1) Take better care of myself (i.e., at least start going for walks and drop 10 lbs.).

2) Force myself to take better care of our finances. You really would not believe how much room for improvement we have in this area--we look like responsible adults, and Bill, at least, actually is one, but our checkbook does not show much evidence of adulthood, let me tell you. I really need to work on this, so that I get to the point where I at least open our mail more frequently than once a month, for pete's sake. Really. And sort of file stuff. Know what I mean?

One of the problems I have with resolutions is that they just seem so stupid, when there are actually important things going on in the world. Like Katherine's cancer. Like my almost-98-year-old Grandmother. Like having my mom in Wisconsin. Like the real, real miracle of Christmas: that God came to earth as a newborn baby, and comes again to us in the holy mystery of the Mass, every day. Given stuff like that, who cares about the annual January diet?

I guess each little effort all adds up to make the world a better place, right? All we can do is our own little part, and give it our best. So I'm off to get in shape and organize our family finances, and here's hoping that next year I have different resolutions because these are all done!!