1.01.2008

moment of weakness...

okay, so i was just going to check some friend's blogs, leave a comment or two to be ignored and move on. but then i was sidetracked into a linked website... anyway, to make a long story boring, i now feel compelled to create a new post. despite the fact that i am working really hard at having the least posted on blog in history. i mean, really hard...
snappy writing, witty word usage. it is because of websites like this that i want to blog. i even named my documented drivel "terriblywitty" as an incentive to be, well, witty!

...terribly!!



dang. i suck.

so the moment of weakness has passed and now i am feeling all stupid. just standing here in the cybervoid with my blog hanging out. guess i ought to find something to post about, huh.

new year. sure, i'll bite.

once again in keeping with the tradition of being a wild maniac, i was zonked out on the couch at 10.30 new years eve. i did manage to wake up and brush my teeth around 11.55, wish myself a happy new year and fumble my way through the carnage of christmas to bed.

i've been reading a book that i grabbed from the library shelf the other day. i like that they put books out for me. makes deciding what bandwagon to get on a lot easier. "hmmm, looks like i'll be reading about menopause today, sounds great, is it getting hotter in here?"
i basically forgo entering the actual aisles in the library since i am overwhelmed with choices on what to fantasize about; home remodeling, film making, writing for money... all so tantalizing!!
i say fantasize because i can barely manage to post two times in a month, let alone follow a dream all the way to some discernible resolution.
which brings me to the point of this post: the book i grabbed off the shelf was entitled "messy no more" a book about being clean and orderly in your home. written by a woman to women about a topic the author thinks only women deal with. sorry to say it, but i relate a little too well to the topics discussed in the book... (er, does this mean i'm a woman? hmm?)

"messy no more" has been helpful in creating, albeit inadvertently, a series of resolutions in me.
you see, i had no intentions of making new years resolutions, since every month or so i make new resolutions anyway. (i resolve to not linger when recapping my sharpie this month...) and yet, after reading this decluttering manifesto i have become a new man! purging kitchen drawers of long dormant utensils, getting rid of the pull-over i got in high school that i've only worn 2 times, putting drywall on the wall separating the bedroom from the living room...
unfortunately, this pandemic jettisoning of trivial possessions has coincided with the progeny's first christmas. and, as such, there was a fresh arrival of trivial possessions to collide with the migration.
the only consolation i have is that if this house were ever to be broken into, the perpetrator would suffer an ignominious death at the hands of fisher price paraphernalia and seldom seen kitchen equipment. woah to you, uncoordinated one lest you twist your ankle on a blow molded farm tractor, fall over the stroller, crack your noggin on the waffle iron and get impaled by the garlic press.
ooo. nasty way to go.


2 comments:

Unknown said...

I find that men need a book by a man for men on how to clean up after ourselves. This, I believe, is the secret to a long and happy marriage.

In other news, we saw an old video from WCHS days with you in it...man did you have some hair!

Happy New Years!

studmuffin said...

aww... hair. those were the days!!