At some point I had decided that I was going to scroll back through my posts for 2009, pick my favs, and post links to them. Kind of a lazy way of blogging and way to round out the year. So I’m working on that tonight and pretty soon you’ll see my favs….most of which involve some form of Jackson proving he was put on this earth to vex me.
I started reading through January and found some resolutions I had made just for the purpose of being able to blog about them. How about I let you know how that went. I forgot about them. The end. They went as follows:
I will stop holding grudges against my neighbors that have perfectly clean garages with all their perfectly oiled and pumped bikes perfectly hanging from their perfect bike hooks with all the washed perfect cars in their perfect garages. Jerks. I will continue, however, to hold grudges against neighbors with Busch Light Beer neon signs illuminated in their garages. A girl needs standards.
Didn’t do that. I still run by garages that are so organized and clean and I get annoyed. Says abit more about my garage than theirs.
I will start to implement Change in the Jaelene Nation government. When I run for re-election in 2047 I don’t want to be behind the eight ball so the time has come to be the government of change. This means that people can wear red and pink together at certain times and sometimes we will overlook the ocassional foray into Dillards. But only when there is a sale or you can’t find a parking spot outside Nordstrom.
I kind of did this. I branched out where I shopped for clothes (hello, recession) and I was more forgiving of people’s mismatched clothes. Mostly.
Somehow I will go seven days without spending any money. Now clearly there will be some guidelines here. Like as long as I have giftcard to Starbucks that was purchased outside the seven days I can still get my Skinny Vanilla Two Pump No Whip Latte on Mon, Wed, Fri. But I will abstain other than that. I don’t know why, it just seems like I should try.
Whose dumb idea was that?
I will lose the ten stubborn pounds. This is real. When I do this it will be like I never had kids. Except that I did have them and the evidence is in my sanity level.
Done. Which is good because this was the only thing I actually intended to do.
I will talk to Kate Spade on a daily basis and not just when I need serious advice. I will develop a better relationship with her and respect all that she has done for me. I will look at my beautiful Kate Spade Barbie all the time and aspire to have that 3/4 length pink floral jacket.
I did discuss many matters with my Kate Spade Barbie. This was not done on a daily basis mostly because Colten took over my computer which is where my Barbie is. I wonder if he talks to her about World of Warcraft.
You read it here first – I will let Mr. Jaelene Nation and the little Mr. Jaelene Nation Jr.’s buy a dog. It’s 4 against 1 so that kind of wins. But the dog needs to be a girl. I need someone to talk to sometimes.
I actually intended to do this as well however it did not happen. I tried, I actually put a lot of effort into this and was not successful. This is back on my list of things to do however I want a boy dog now. Because I have a boy name picked out. What can I say? I’m good at picking boy names.
This is why I don’t make resolutions….I rarely intend to actually do them when I make them so what is the point? There are a few things I’m going to do this year though – not necessarily resolutions but things I’ve had a on my to-do list for awhile and I’d like to move them to my all-done list. When I do them, you will be the 87th to know unless you are one of my 87 facebook friends….then you’ll know before my blog.