I resolve to go to work each and every day with the knowledge that Friday is no more than five days away at any time.
I promise to share my issues with loved ones so that they’ll always know how I am feeling and so they will leave me mostly alone…
I promise to watch what I eat, so no more snacking in the pitch dark.
I promise not to spend extended periods on video games.
I resolve to increase my definition of “extended period” to three days.
I resolve to exercise more such as typing this list myself rather than tell someone else to do it… which I really shouldn’t have done…
I promise to give up whatever pill addiction I might or might not have just as soon as I find a reliable heroin dealer.
I resolve to take Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past from that box in the attic and putting it in a box I have in the basement.
I resolve to find love… and if it’s those same two dogs, turning a garden hose on it…
I resolve to figure out what I do for a living.
I promise to practice “walking meditation” which consists of keeping a still and peaceful mind while I’m violently assaulting a homeless person.
I resolve to avoid non-sequiturs and to walk with marzipan.
Potatoes and the Promise of More Potatoes 
I resolve to watch TV, it must have something entertaining on it.
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That will help you cut down on your TV. All I watch are old movies and BBC nature documentaries…
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I like documentaries.
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I like them when they aren’t dumbed down. If I can learn ONE thing from a documentary, I’m happy.
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The first one has a nice ring to it. Happy New Year!
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My New Year’s promise every year is not to give any new year’s promise! That’s the only promise I know I can keep!😁😁😁
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Seems like you violate that one as soon as you make it…
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Hahaha!!! Yes, you´re right, I didn’t thought about that!😁😁😁
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I think I’ll adopt that second resolution myself, especially regarding my in-laws. 😦
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It works great! Just work on your tone. I find it best to work with a medium sized dog. When it howls, I know I’ve hit the sweet spot…
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Perfect.
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Thanks so much, Chelsea!
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Proust would be proud…
Have a happy creative 2019!
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Have you read any of his works, Ray?
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In search of lost time (when I was in uni).
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You strike me as someone who would have. I’ve read the first three. Past Swann’s Way. It’s beautiful but SO dull…
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I gave Proust a lot of tries. I figured that I was reading bad translations, so I went to different translations. Paperbacks, then hardcovers. Print, then Kindle. Then finally I realized, it’s not me, it’s you.
I can breathe again.
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I had a copy in my in-laws’ lake house. So, given a choice between reading Proust or interacting with them, I was able to finish three of the books…
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