HAPPY NEW YEAR!

It’s the first day of the New Year, and as “quick” (i.e. 6+ weeks) as it came, it went out in a flash. The spending, the stress, the chaos that is the holiday season is over and now it is time to deal with the aftermath; more junk in the house, a little more debt and a bigger waistline. So, in traditional fashion, it is time for the New Year’s resolution to begin undoing all of your wrongs of the previous year.

We’ve all been there; you will eat better, you will exercise, you will spend less, you will save a bit each month for next Christmas…feel free to add your own. For the most part, people view a new year as a chance to start again and you can interpret “start again” however it fits you. I have been at this point for some 20 years of my adult life and I don’t think I’ve ever made good on any of my resolutions for more than a few days, weeks or months. Will this year be any different? I would like to say yes, but in my typical self-defeating posture, I know it won’t.

Case in point, only moments into the new year I broke the eating better resolution with a(n) (un)healthy plate of sausage rolls and cheese cubes. Way to go resolve, you let me down again. Damn, it was tasty though. Puffed pastry stuffed with pork and cheese on the side, what better way to crash and burn. Then it is fried eggs and ham for breakfast. Hopefully I remember the Christmas resolutions 11 months from now, because the eating seems in a precarious position.

Despite all the stress and headaches, it was a pretty good holiday season, I can’t really complain. I have my health, my wife, my kids, a good job, a roof over my head and food on the table, so I can’t really be richer.

Happy New Year to all!!!!