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Showing posts with label new year's resolutions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new year's resolutions. Show all posts

Monday, January 3, 2011

Resolve It

Admit it, we're only three days into the new year and you're already standing over the sink in your sweat pants eating ice cream straight out of the tub and your eyebrows need waxing.

How does Larainy know this?  Because I, like you am a frail human whose resolve dissolved away with the first wafting scent of this delicious lemon bar. 

Ever vigilant to consume my quota of daily fruit servings, I was forced to eat 23 squares.

Am I discouraged about the resolution that already lies shattered about me in the form of delicious buttery crumbs? 

No!

And you shouldn't either, my darling reader even though in spite of your early to bed goal, you stayed up until 2:30 a.m. last night watching "Back to the Future" for the 13th time because you always had a crush on/wished you were Marty McFly
(if he were only a foot taller)  
Oh yes, I know all about the lofty list you so bravely wrote down in purple pen after staying up too late and/or consuming too many strong beverages while the new year's eve clock was tick tick ticking down.


RESOLUTION:  I will clean out the basement so my children quit nominating me for Hoarders

RESOLUTION:  Only organic food hand picked by singing environmentalists in handwoven linen will pass my lips

RESOLUTION:  Every time I am tempted to watch Jersey Shore I will instead read a chapter of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

RESOLUTION: Never again will I allow my leg hairs to grow longer than my bangs


And what is my top secret antidote to your repeated failure to achieve these lofty aspirations?
  • cut up a lemon 
  • take the dirty dishes out of the sink
  • turn on the faucet
  • turn on the garbage disposal
  • throw the lemon down into the grinding jaws of death
  • inhale until the fresh lemony fumes curl your untrimmed nasal hairs
  • rinse and repeat

Voila!
Citrus induced Amnesia
You are so very welcome 
 






    Wednesday, December 30, 2009

    Rootin' Tootin' Resolutin'

    Yes friends, like so many of you; I have just emerged from a cleansing fast (no vegetables, whole grains, fruits or fibers) and a 15 hour meditation (movie marathon in front of HD widescreen) and am now in the proper frame of mind to make my New Year's Resolutions.

    In spite of the cleansing fast and meditation, I have been having a hard time coming up with anything that I can improve upon, so I looked to others for motivation.  Perhaps they will help you!


    I will treat my sister like the angel she truly is.


     

    I will force my sister to become the angel she truly isn't.




    I will put the sheets in the washer, where they belong





    I will allow no one to rain on my trophy parade




    I will not try to solve the issues between Grandma and Aunt Sylvia


     

    I will get up before 3 pm and cheerfully 
    participate in family pictures

     

    I will wear a shirt next time I volunteer 
    as a crossing guard at the elementary school

     


    I will never again bring dishonor to Smoky the Bear



    Next time I will go all the way 
    and wear the matching earrings
     


    Next time, we will buy the eight foot couch

     

    This year, 
    I will go to the gym with my girlfriend

     


    I will teach Arturo how to stand on his own two feet


     

    I will read Twilight again until I get it right



    I will limit my target practice to just one of the neighbors cats



     
    I will continue little brother's education.




    I will be a little less country
    and a little more rock n' roll



    We will give up on dating chicken farmers
     



    I will give all my legal business to
    kitty-totin' lawyers


     

    I will not bring my baby to visit the Dollar Store Easter Bunny.