We made it! A whole year of posting our thoughts, dreams and daily activities. This is post # 361 so that means with a couple trips to Europe, we missed 4 issues of our family musings or newsletter. Actually I believe we did get 365 posts in, it’s just that some were written under a single heading resulting in 361 “titled” posts.
Thanks to all of you that have followed us this first year. I know that some of you don’t agree with my political views, others aren’t really on board with my economic advice and yet still, you all read. It must be so you can find out what the boys are up to each day! I and the misses both had a lot of fun with this and are excited that someday the boys will be able to look back and have a snapshot into a year in their life. In a way, it was also kind of therapeutic to write about what was going on each day. You had to think and reflect on what you really felt in order to put it into words. We hope it wasn’t too boring and apologize if we offended anyone at all. (except you democrats)
Ok, now to the day. Yesterday I worked in the morning and then had to run up to Vail for some business. I left at 12:30 and was back in Denver by 4. The misses, being the great Mom that she is, took both boys to Big Time, the indoor trampoline place where the oldest had his birthday. The rest of the day was spent taking down most of the Christmas lights outside and getting some laundry finished. We’ve had 50 to 100 mile an hour winds the past few days so we wanted to get as many lights down as we could.
Today we’ll tackle a bit of the inside and continue to de-clutter the house and our lives. When we went out to dinner for my birthday the other night, the boys favorite sitter said she was free tonight so I told her to keep it open. We didn’t have any plans but figured that finding our favorite sitter available was some sort of omen, so we’re going to find something to do. I checked a few of our favorite restaurants and of course, they’re all booked. Then the misses said “let’s go see a movie”. Brilliant, we’ve been wanting to go see The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo since they started advertising it. Not only will this be much cheaper than dinner out, but with our new dedication to turning our bodies into Brad Pitt and Angela Jolie (I’m Brad Pitt), we won’t be eating bad food or drinking demon alcohol. On the advice of my Mom, I did buy some black eyed peas as she said that’s what we should eat on New Years. A friend of mine called yesterday to wish me happy birthday and when I told him how old I was he said “Man, I was going to give you shit about getting close to 50”. Yes, that’s right, I may be 55 (still can’t believe it) but I look pretty good. I’ll get over it in a few days but I’m going to have to dig out my birth certificate and check the date for sure. You see, the main reason I don’t think I’m that old is that my Mom doesn’t look a day over 65 and that would make it impossible for me to be 55, Hah!
I guess none of you are making any resolutions for the coming year or maybe you don’t want to put them into print in case you fail. That’s ok as actually they say not to make resolutions but rather make small changes throughout the year as it puts less pressure on you to succeed. For me, I like the pressure and do better when I give myself some sort of deadline or timeline. To each their own.
With it being a new year, we need to change the title of the post, 2011familymakeover just won’t work anymore. We’ll try to come up with something today but will use the current url (that means title in computer lingo) until tomorrow so you can all read about it and get used to it then. I also need to figure out how to change it which might take me a little time. If anyone has any suggestions for a title, please let us know.
Wow is the wind blowing hard outside. We must be getting gusts above 50 miles an hour now as you can hear it blowing down through the chimney. I just saw on the news (5:22am) that Kim Kardashian will get $600,000 just for attending a New Years eve party in Las Vegas! Are you kidding me, I mean I’m sure she’s a nice girl, but who is she, what does she do? Boy is our society out of whack. Ok ok I’ll stop. I don’t want to ruin the last day of the year going off on some tangent. I think I’ll head to the gym before everyone gets up.
So in closing, once again, thanks for reading, we hope you enjoyed our little project. I promise to make the misses write more in 2012. It’s just that I’m up so much earlier and it’s easier to write when the boys are still asleep.
Take care, don’t drink too much and stay out of trouble tonight. We’re going to try to stay up until midnight even though we haven’t made it since the year 2000. We did buy some hats, horns and confetti yesterday so we’ll be having a little party here tonight if anyone wants to drop by. We love you all and wish you good health and much happiness and success in the coming year. We’ll see you in 2012, God Bless.
p.s. I’m officially endorsing Mitt Romney for President of the United States. I’m sure this will guarantee him winning the nomination and election!
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