New Year's Resolutions
One would think that after "starting over" throughout the year (I'm a big believer that diets can only start on Mondays, birthdays are great days to start new good habits and that new months contain new hopes of a balanced budget. As such, I'm all about new beginnings - all year long), I would be rather nonchalant about my resolutioning. Just as New Year's Eve is amateur night to the hard core party girls, you'd think that New Year's Resolutions were beneath me. Au contraire, my friend, I go deep. You have not experienced resolutioning until you have lived thru my New Year's Morn.

I call it my New Year's Resolution Coffee Summit. It may be my favorite part of the holidays, now that I think of it. The hecticness is over, the family is dispersed and you find yourself back in your little abode looking into a New Year with NO MISTAKES IN IT YET. It's just such an optimistic time. I love it. Anyhoo, this year I asked Shop Girl to come over and share in the positive energy. It was a big step for our relationship. I presented her with her own notebook in which to denote her resolutions and began my copious list-making. She drank her coffee and snacked on a bagel and wrote down a couple of resolutions and then wanted to talk about the ongoings of New Year's Eve. I explained that the Summit is not about looking back but only about looking forward, and returned to my resolutioning. It's ok. This was new to her.

I, of course, say every resolution aloud before I write it down, as it doesn't seem real without doing so. Plus, a person is always more inclined to follow through when the thought is spoken. Anyhoo, after resolution #68: Scrub neck with loofah regularly so as not to leave brown ring on white blouses, Shop Girl had to leave. She said I'd been watching too much Oprah and thought that I should add seek therapy to my mounting list. Hmmmph. No appreciation for the new beginning. But I shouldn't be surprised. What would a chronically-skinny-despite-major-affinity-for-Cool-Ranch-Doritos person know about resolutions anyway? Plus, if she had stayed longer she would have seen that I'm REDUCING amount of retail therapy by 50% per resolution #106. I decided that no amount of new clothes will change my appearance like a skinnier frame. As such, I will limit retailing to accessories (shoes and handbags, mainly) and beauty products (especially lip gloss, as I'm sure it's goo-iness takes the attention away from midsection.)

This is all to say that I'm perched at the top of a new year, looking out with great optimism and ready to take over my world. I count myself blessed that I'm relatively healthy (if you don't count caffeine addiction); stylish - thanks to Shop Girl's removal of all overalls from my closet (purging the closet was also part of the New Year's Day activities and while she may think I'm a freak about my resolutions, she's Hitler when it comes to the closet); and independent - courtesy of our great forefathers. Adding to the excitement, I got a kiss from an old flame over the holidays (and I will add that he is looking very well but will not digress into the extreme wonderings going on in my head since. No this is a time of planning, not daydreaming), full skirts are in again for Spring, and the hair people say that you don't have to make your hair straight-as-a-board to be hip so I won't get early arthritis in my arm. Really, what more could a girl want?

And so, my dear old friends, I send you a very glamorous air kiss and wish you the very best in this new year. May your closets be full and your outfits superb and may you never feel frumpy again.

xoxo,

she she me

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As I'm reducing retail therapy by 50% per resolution #106, I have decided that I can accrue far more treats by choosing items that are less expensive. Thankfully, gap.com is really coming thru for me these days. First, if you order $75 or more, you get free shipping. Second, there are sales out the wazoo. Take note of the pink long and lean cords! And third, have you seen the key hole bikinis? Surely, I'll be resorting somewhere in February. They even have cute maternity clothes for the preggers of the world. Love the prego version of the keyhole bikini! Precious!

So get thee shopping!