Shed Off the Old and Put On the New!!!!

I close my eyes sometimes and I can't believe how ecstatic I was to be entering the new year, well one that I can now call not so new, old in fact; 2009 was a great year, not just for me but for so many people I know and even more that I done. For some reason it was a year that things seemed to happen, if you catch my drift,....Yes..?..No? Well, I'm sure yours was great too. I remember watching the sky light up with colors I didn't know existed and If i didn't know how far behind my awesome country was in nuclear physics, of which I don't thing we will be singing any nursery rhymes or even playing in the sandbox in that department for another 50 to 60 years, I'd probably think one of the reactors had gone haywire. But to steer back to the main points, it was almost.... beautiful...lol. OK, it was! No judging, I still love me some steak and potatoes, so I am still a mans man. Anyways, when the attack on Pearl Harbor was overs and the sound of the last explosion was heard, we rushed out of the city trying to avoid the crazy traffic, and surprisingly in a blink of an eye we were joining a couple of other friends for yet another round of drinks at slightly less fancy and yet a lot more fun bar. The night just kept getting better and the girls just seemed to get more and more intoxicated, and I know that coz the hottest girls kept hooking up with, well, "not so much their type" kind of guys; some guys might argue that its not such a bad thing..lol. The rest of the night is still a little fuzzy to this day. What I do remember is I woke up in a bed that felt like mine, and a room that kinda looked like mine, Fred Flintstone   bashing my head from the right and Barney Rubble from the left, I had my T-shirt on inside out, and my belt,... well lets just say I still want it back and to this day I hope to god, I didn't flash anyone.

A few days after " the incident", and the toxins had passed from my body, I begun to feel really excited about 2010. I had started the year in a rather unusual way, see,  no matter how much I drink I always try to remain lucid. So that was one of the few times I had totally totally lost time, one before, involving me in a bathroom and an iPod but the details never seem to roll off anyones tongue. Probably not my proudest moment. Before I really sunk my teeth into 2010, I decided to do a review of 2009 and a projection for 2010, I grabbed a note pad, a pencil and begun to scribble. Twenty minutes later I had written so much down, it was a bit scary, I had taken it more serious than I thought. There was so much I had to do in 2010, I wondered if there was something I was not telling myself, "Why so much pressure to get stuff done?", I thought to myself. Well, I guess its just the way I am sometimes. "Why so serious??", something I have been asked several times...
A few days later I was back at school, the scorching heat, intense humidity, the still leaves on trees to indicate no breeze, yeah, it was hell all over again. I wished for 2011. It started out great but then along the way, it begun to drag, and by June, I was ready to move on to the next year. I can't say it was entirely bogus, there were a few highlights, I got to be an uncle all over again, wait, twice this year actually, I got to make a few friends, I got to travel a bit, so yeah, it wasn't the worst year, but far from the best. I hardly got to do what I had set out to do and most of the year felt pretty much like a waste, well, now that we are talking about feelings, I'm sharing.

New years eve, 2010, and I'm wondering what 2011 has in stock for me. I probably started off with a a page from 2010 in one hand, almost falling back into my old habit's, trying to edit a few lines in that chapter but now I realize it doesn't matter what happened, I don't have to hold on to any of it. In fact, I best drop it all. I do have to start writing the next. When I think about all the days filled awesome days that lie ahead, filled with joy and happiness and of course the very few dark moments of sorrow, sadness and doubt to make us appreciate the good days, its amazing to know that I have a blank sheet right in front of me, a felt tip pen and hundreds of ideas on how to write this chapter. No more beating myself up for things that are really out of my control, yes I do wanna sky dive, and I do wanna learn how to fly. I wanna put out a record despite the fact that I have a better chance of finding Nessy than I do creating a melody with my vocal chords. I wanna do all that, and who knows? I might, I might not but either way, it won't matter coz I'm writing it.

So join me, and lets write it like never before. Lets make Art!

Happy 2011 People!

Signing off,
Yours Truly,


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