Les resolutions de Creampuff - edition 2008

I know! It's already January 5th! It seems like I've blown the "procrastinate less/blog more" resolutions already this month, but I'll have you know that I have spent the last six days endlessly converting hundreds of posts from Textile2 to HTML and then reformatting them in order that they may be ready for the launch of the new onedegree.ca, the internet marketing blog we took over last year. It's taken six days to do one year's worth of posts and I've got two years to go and it's sucking my will to live.

But I am taking a break! Ha ha! Because if I wait too long, New Year's resolution time will be over - unless I wait for Chinese New Year. Which I seriously considered.

I love New Year's resolutions. I love reading yours - I love crafting my own - I basically love the idea that a "new year" equals a "new opportunity" to "suck less". I was pleased to note, when I checked last year's New Year's post, that I did manage to make good on several of my resolutions - I learned to knit socks against all odds, Flippy showed me how to make my blog searchable, we acquired a dog who forces me to exercise every day and while my various wages couldn't accurately be described as "livable", they do pay the rent. Also, I floss like it's going out of style, mainly because we don't have a dentist here yet.

Speaking of "becauses", 2007 was delightful in myriad ways, but it was also a fabulous year for excuses. FABULOUS. Living in Toronto for two months, adopting a dog, getting gay married - I had so many wonderful reasons to put things off! Like, for instance, learning to drive.

Hahahahaaaaa! I know! STILL!

I'm not going to bore you with why, because who cares? Suffice to say that, as part of my "embrace the new!" initiative, this WILL be the year that I actually do some driving. So...

1. Learn to drive. This means I will:

• Get my learner's license again 
• Take a driver training course
• Memorize our gay marriage vows so that I can recite them to Katr as I careen down the street with her in the passenger seat, white-knuckled and screaming.

Will I be able to take the road test before the gay divorce comes through? History will decide! Or perhaps Katr's lawyer.

2. Locate some health care professionals.

The dog has a vet, but we don't have a doctor or a dentist. Or a hairdresser, for that matter - we've lived here for a year and we both still get our hair cut IN TORONTO.

3. Finish my play.

Heeeeeeeeeeeeey - It doesn't seem to be writing itself. I realize that while it's still in an "unfinished state", it is PERFECT and brilliant in my mind. Once I declare it "finished", then it will be judged by others who do not love it as I do and that will blow. But you know - sometimes things blow! And no one will die if this blows. So I need to get the fuck over it and finish it. Preferably before we have to give up the fabulous printer we're "testing".

4. Knit Padu's sweater.

I promised Padu a sweater for his birthday. Last year. Hahahaaaaa!

5. Be greener.

We do plenty of environmentally conscious things around the house and beyond - buying carbon offsets for the car and air travel, using re-usable bags at the grocery store, signing up with greendimes.com, running the car off the dog's gas, recycling my hilarious jokes - but I confess that there are times that I can't face scrubbing out the peanut butter jar and just toss it instead of recycling it. There - I said it! So this year I'm going to suck it and wash those jars out.

6. 10000 steps!

When I first starting walking the dog, I nearly expired. Seriously - going from almost completely sedentary to walking for 2+ hours a day nearly did me in. But I have come to love my daily outings with Emmy Lou. Now that I can walk briskly for well over an hour without shitting twice and dying, I think it's time for a kicky pedometer and some really good headphones, so that I can keep track of our ambulatory progress and listen to Prince. I look forward to hitting the seawall fatly and startling passerby with my strange hidden clicking and sudden, off-key singing. Huzzah!

Okay, so those are the most specific of my goals for 2008 - I think if I can pull these off, it could be a banner year! Maybe I could KNIT the banner! And attach it to the back of the car while driving it! And then get pulled over by the fuzz!

Comments

[K-Prime]

Good luck with finding a hairdresser. It's been a year and a half, and I've been through three of them. I find one, I like them, they change professions/move to Calgary/stop taking my calls. Apparently showing up and saying, "Okay, my friend and I got drunk last night and dyed my hair black. What can you do?" is not a good way to keep the hair care professionals happy.

[SassyFemme]

Finding a hair dresser is worse than finding a doctor! I'm wishing we'd found someone cheaper, and a little more mature. I hate the idea of switching because we run into our hair dresser around town, and he'd know, and I'd feel like a shit.

[wenders]

I commute into Boston to get my hair cut. I think it's worth it... :)

Good luck on these - I agree, I love reading other people's goals.

[greymatters]

A hairdresser is VITAL!!!! Good luck there.

And happy, happy 2008 to you and the spousal unit!

[alicia]

good luck in 2008..... 10,000 steps/day is on my new year's resolution. I made it to about 5,000 steps for the whole year in 2007. needless to say, I'm expecting big things in '08. Rock on.

[michelle]

Now that I can walk briskly for well over an hour without shitting twice

yes, definitely doing it wrong. The *dog* is supposed to do the shitting while being walked. Good call on fixing this one. :P

Best wishes for driving home from your new health care professional with fabulous hair, half-finshed sweater atop a finished play in the passenger's seat.

[Cynical Knitting Gal]

Good job on the resolutions! For real about the hairdresser. I can't find one to save my life and I've been in the same city since 1991. They keep getting new careers, or moving away...or maybe it's me?!

[Abi]

Oh Creampuff, you make me laugh. And then I try to explain what I'm laughing about to my fiance and he looks at me funny and says 'I don't get it' and I say 'Well, it was funnier online.' And that's when I learn that reader people's blogs out loud doesn't really work as well as reading them in my head.

[Maggie]

Uh, Ro?

I can understand why you don't know this. But, you don't actually blow.

And neither does your play. :)

[roro]

K-Prime - Hahahaaa! Yeah, that's not very encouraging - we live in the same town! Stop chasing the hairdressers to Calgary.

SassyFemme - I so understand. I've stayed with expensive or annoying hairdressers for too long out of guilt too. What's wrong with us?

wenders - Well, I don't feel SO bad about my Toronto commute then.

greymatters - thanks! same to you!! I'm so glad that everyone's so concerned about my haircuts. I thought I was being silly.

alicia - Woohoo! 10,000 steps! I know we can do it. If only I could get the pedometer, but it's nearly 10,000 steps away.

michelle -Hahahaaa! Thanks for the TIP. And also for your stirring vision. That will be me!

Cynical Knitting Gal - Sometimes hairdressers leave. They're gone on to a better place and you can't blame yourself.

Abi - Everything is funnier online!! Resolutions, stupid wedding crap - EVERYTHING.

Maggie - Thank you. You are lovely and have made my night. Hold on and let me see if I have any nice kilt pictures to send you . . .

[marni]

I can recommend a good dentist that is near you-- Dr. Vigneault. Willow dental care
Suite 807-805 West Broadway
Vancouver BC V5Z 1K1
Tel. (604) 873-9794
You get to look at mountains while they clean your teeth.