Where did the year go?

Can you believe it is already 2014?  I was talking with Boy the other day telling him how when I was a kid I thought the year 2000 was.just.like.WOW.man!!!  Totally far out.in the distant future and now all kidding aside, it is a decade after that far off notion of Y2K (which we didn't call it in the 60's, by the way).  So now I guess we are Y2KPlus (as retail mongols like to differentiate their stores one from the other).  Why shop at HEB when you can shop at HEB Plus?  Why just settle for Walmart when you can tickle your pocketbook (am I still showing my age?) at SUPER Walmart?  Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse fast car plowing down people and stepping on children....HEY! Jingle Bells.

My Y2K Plus will be to slow down. Smell the flowers...or plant them (they've been sitting in their original pots since before Thanksgiving). Cook more and eat out less.  Use what I have and not spend on more.  Don't save items until the perfect day or perfect situation.  I received cute hand towels for Christmas. They are new. Christmas is over. Therefore the hand towels get stored away in a box (maybe I'll remember that box next Christmas or more than likely not).  Hand lotions. Beautiful soaps. Wonderful smelling candles.  All get saved or put away for that special time. That meaningful occasion.  Guess what?  They get lost.  They expire.  They mold or wear out or smell out or just don't get out of the box and wind up in a garage sale or at Goodwill or in the garbage.  Well, not this year, sister!  This is my user year.

So if you come over and see a snowman on my hand towels that means I am keeping the Christmas season alive throughout the year.  If I have a fall aroma in the house-- Great!  I love thinking about the changing of the leaves and my mind's eye sees the beautiful fall foliage.  I am also bringing out those old 80's videos I used to exercise to.  I'll use them till the VCR gives out or the tape snaps because that will be my motto-- use it till it snaps.  Hopefully it won't be my knees snapping!

I refused to make any "new year's resolutions;" it's too sad when I break one or five on January 2.  Instead I'm making a list of new year's goals.  This is my Y2K Plus.  How about you?