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OPEN for my 2021 promises!

December 29, 2020

Yes. It’s that time of year again: THE END OF IT.And what an f-ing year it’s been. Sorry, couldn’t (or fine, wouldn’t) come up with a more appropriate F-word that fit. Turned out, 2020 vision was indeed spot on. We saw sh*t we can never unsee. Nor should we.As an aside and an ass aside (come January 20), I’m going to finish this year as I LOVE to finish all years, with a bonfire to burn 2020’s WTFs and a pile of new-ish promises to start 2021 off right.  This is the year I promise to do (or more so, stop doing) the following:

  1. I am going to stop being snarky with my husband when he reaches for second helpings of something delicious, uh, I made. 

  2. I am going to stop saying “yes” to more things than I know I can handle and then blame the asker and not my yes-er as the problem.

  3. I’m going to stop growling at the Instagram LIVE button and then wonder why my facial expression oftentimes is a little farkakte. 

  4. I am going to stop getting dressed to go on the pandemic-bought Peloton, never going, and then pointing at emails, kids (who are 20 and 24), and laundry (that I don’t end up doing) for why both the laundry and I didn’t spin instead of my very own inner-Brat. 

  5. I am going to stop pushing my 20-year-old to get on the dating sites and then worry about who, when, where, what she is meeting.

  6. I am going to stop eye rolling at words like “pivot,” “authentic,” and “flow,” and get the joke that the reason I burp up bile at them is because they should really be on my 2021 list of to do’s or, better yet, to be’s.

  7. I am going to start to try to consider that thumbing songs up and down while driving counts as texting. YES. No matter how vital it is to the Pandora station I’m creating or to Tracy Chapman staying in the 80s. 

  8. I’m going to give up the right to be randomly annoyed by people and think it’s their problem and not my DNA. [Hi, Dad!]

  9. I am going to see the sudden need to listen to my Smiths radio station as not a great sign for my mood.

  10. I am going to get great at getting notes (aka critique) from people no matter how annoying the person, their tone, their opinion, their word choice, etc. are. See #8.

  11. I am going to remember my mom is 86 and stop being surprised when as cute as she is (and she is), she’s a little crazy. She’s earned it. What’s my excuse?

  12. I’m going to stop emailing, texting, and Slack-ing while preparing dinner and then stop getting mad at anyone who so much as bats an eyelash as to why the skin on the grass-fed organic chicken is now a carcinogen.  

  13. I’m going to stop complaining about winter in the winter.  

  14. I’m going to stop saying that Shavanasa is my favorite yoga pose. 

  15. I’m going to promise to stop making promises like #1, #6, #13, and #14 which I have no intent whatsoever to keep. The rest, I’m in. 

Your turn. What are you burning – and birthing – this New Year?

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