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Hasta La Vista 2020 - Happy NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
Hasta La Vista 2020, and don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Although I agree with Biden - the next three months are going to be hard. Not helped by the crook in the white house who refuses to concede or leave.
Weirdly Times Square isn't as vacant as expected. There are people there in little socially distant conclaves. And celebrating in small areas. They are in little enclosed padded boxes with the folks they came with, with masks. No one gets close to people they don't know.
Meanwhile powerball went to a poor black family with two young daughters. I was kind of rooting for them. The others were a couple, an old white couple, an black couple, and a single girl.
I drank sparkling white wine from little cans - it's the only sparkling that agrees with me. I don't do champagne well, and it's not expensive.
Happy New Years Folks.
Thanks for sticking with me through this. Not everyone did. The pandemic kind of showed us all who cared. And who didn't, didn't it?
You being there - helped me survive 2020. I live alone. In a huge city. My family far away. I don't socially distance with friends - I've not seen any since March 8, and the last I saw my co-workers in person was in September. The last I saw my family, immediate family - was in 2019. And the closest I came to human interactions was with people I don't know that live in my apartment complex or my co-workers - who I kind of went through this with. Did we bond? Hard to say.
I saw the absolute worst and best in humanity this year. And struggled with the worst and best for myself.
My New Year's Resolution is the same as last year's - Be Kind Be Kind Be Kind no matter what happens. No matter how hard. No matter how angry.
And I hope I'll do better with that this year than last.
Being kind is the only way, I think.
I will try to be less opinionated, less judgemental, less critical, less angry, and less self-righteous.
I will try to help more. Think about myself less. Give more. Take less.
And be more supportive.
I will try to be kind to myself. To understand that I'm only human. And try to learn from my mistakes.
I will try to listen more. Talk less. Read more. Write less.
Today is the first of January. It's a beginning. A second chance to get things right.
I survived 2020. We survived 2020. Not everyone did. Over 2 million people around the world didn't. Some famous. Some unknown but worthy and kind all the same. I'm thankful that you and I survived. So thankful. Thankful my parents, my family, my friends, my co-workers, my super, all the people I know personally - survived 2020 and got out of the year alive.
Thank god.
It was touch and go there for a while.
Now, let's get out of 2021. And remember to be patient and kind with each other. The next three to four months are going to be rough.
What's that they say? It's always darkest before the dawn? Cliche perhaps, but fitting. I see hope ahead. Take a breath. 2021! Here's to 2021!
Although I agree with Biden - the next three months are going to be hard. Not helped by the crook in the white house who refuses to concede or leave.
Weirdly Times Square isn't as vacant as expected. There are people there in little socially distant conclaves. And celebrating in small areas. They are in little enclosed padded boxes with the folks they came with, with masks. No one gets close to people they don't know.
Meanwhile powerball went to a poor black family with two young daughters. I was kind of rooting for them. The others were a couple, an old white couple, an black couple, and a single girl.
I drank sparkling white wine from little cans - it's the only sparkling that agrees with me. I don't do champagne well, and it's not expensive.
Happy New Years Folks.
Thanks for sticking with me through this. Not everyone did. The pandemic kind of showed us all who cared. And who didn't, didn't it?
You being there - helped me survive 2020. I live alone. In a huge city. My family far away. I don't socially distance with friends - I've not seen any since March 8, and the last I saw my co-workers in person was in September. The last I saw my family, immediate family - was in 2019. And the closest I came to human interactions was with people I don't know that live in my apartment complex or my co-workers - who I kind of went through this with. Did we bond? Hard to say.
I saw the absolute worst and best in humanity this year. And struggled with the worst and best for myself.
My New Year's Resolution is the same as last year's - Be Kind Be Kind Be Kind no matter what happens. No matter how hard. No matter how angry.
And I hope I'll do better with that this year than last.
Being kind is the only way, I think.
I will try to be less opinionated, less judgemental, less critical, less angry, and less self-righteous.
I will try to help more. Think about myself less. Give more. Take less.
And be more supportive.
I will try to be kind to myself. To understand that I'm only human. And try to learn from my mistakes.
I will try to listen more. Talk less. Read more. Write less.
Today is the first of January. It's a beginning. A second chance to get things right.
I survived 2020. We survived 2020. Not everyone did. Over 2 million people around the world didn't. Some famous. Some unknown but worthy and kind all the same. I'm thankful that you and I survived. So thankful. Thankful my parents, my family, my friends, my co-workers, my super, all the people I know personally - survived 2020 and got out of the year alive.
Thank god.
It was touch and go there for a while.
Now, let's get out of 2021. And remember to be patient and kind with each other. The next three to four months are going to be rough.
What's that they say? It's always darkest before the dawn? Cliche perhaps, but fitting. I see hope ahead. Take a breath. 2021! Here's to 2021!