resolute

Several of my friends undertake penitent post-holiday resolutions (jog every morning! fit into my high school jeans! abstain from all liquor! elimate all unnecessary spending immediately!) for the New Year. And for some of them, this draconian approach proves fruitful.

Others become so disheartened by their failure to adhere to the near-impossible constraints they've established that they give up entirely, dive headlong into a vat of premium ice cream and bitter invective (ew --- invective is sticky!), and wallow there until March.

I fall in the second camp. Accordingly, when I plan to better myself or my life, I establish goals more gradually and incorporate them into my life, and when I remember to make New Year's resolutions, I make certain that I can achieve them. This year's resolutions:

- find more occasions to drink champagne.*
- sing more. (Sorry, everyone.)
- eat more eclairs.

*I've already fulfilled the first; we attended a marvelous New Year's brunch where the hosts urged mimosas on us again and again. I accommodated their demands to drink. I am nothing if not gracious in these matters.

update, for those who yearn to know: The Fella and I spent New Year's Eve nursing our colds by lounging sedately in bed, him at the head reading and me flopped toward the foot watching season 1, disc 1, of House, M.D.. Then he clambered over to kiss me in the middle of an episode. Only after my gratifying response of "huh?" did I glance at the clock: exactly midnight.

He's the romantic in this home. I'm just the beneficiary of it.