RESOLUTIONS ARE NEVER RESOLVED

I find New Year's resolutions to be pretty pointless. Why wait until the New Year to improve yourself when you can do it at any point during the year. If you feel as though you need to exercise more, eat less, or volunteer, then just do it. There's no need to wait on bettering yourself. And if you've waited all year to finally decide you want to lose weight or whatever, are you really going to start when "the new year" hits? Really now?? It really is just another day in a succesion of days, only considered the "New Year" because we follow the Gregorian calendar.

This is why I celebrate the year that's just passed. I know what I've done and the year I've just been though is not filled with uncertainty like the new one, so there's no pressure to follow through with anything!

2003 "REMEMBERIES"

Thoughts on some things of 2003 as the end draws nigh...

Clay Aiken: The American Idol runner-up's album came out, Measure of a Man. *snicker* Yes, you heard that right--Measure of a Man! Bwahahahaha! Even for a manufactured pop idol that's cheesy!

Mad Cow Disease: You don't scare me Mad Cow! Because they found A cow. Not many cows, A cow.

Johnny Depp: For years I've said that Johnny Depp is the best actor of his generation, and I've been laughed at. Now that he's a big star and deemed the 2003 Entertainer of the Year by E!, who's laughing now, huh?! Huh?!?!

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: SO FREAKIN' AWESOME!!!

The vote against casinos in Maine: Preposterous!

Madonna & Britney's kiss: YOWZA!!!

I'M A HEATHEN, ARE YOU?

So yesterday I was heading out the front door, and this guy was coming in. It's too bad I didn't notice he was coming in because he was a JEHOVAH'S WITNESS!! Argh!!! Why do they have to come door-to-door and preach the good word to people?? I'm a firm believer in people believing whatever they want to, but when they start pushing it on me, that's where I draw the line! If I want to be a sinner I will be goddammit!

HAIR'S THE PROBLEM

You know what is perhaps the worst thing ever? When a guy has a full head of hair and no sideburns. What is up with that? It's not a good look, and is downright LAME. A while back I saw a kid with long mullet hair and no sideburns. I pity that kid going through life like that. Wait--no I don't, he made the mullet/no sideburn choice. Maybe it works for him, I don't know. I mean, I'm not saying grow muttonchops or anything like that, just enough so it grows past the ear a hair. (Get it? A hair? Hahahaha--ha...ha... *sigh*)

UH OH, IT'S MAGIC!

I like magic. But who doesn't? It's neato. What I don't like are these magic shows where it's all flash over substance. Like David Copperfield, Lance Burton, Siegfried & Roy, etc. etc. They dance around, and have pretty girls around them, and loud music, and fancy lighting. And they have all this junk built around the trick, which totally overshadows the magic part of it .

David Blaine was cool. When he walked up and down the streets performing random tricks to passersby, that was cool. That's magic. But now all he does is his endurance tests. Frozen in a block of ice, standing on a podium, stuck in a box for 44 days, yada yada. Which is neat in theory, but it's actually quite boring. Look at him sitting in a box. Look at him standing on a post. yay. They don't give you immediate amazement and satisfaction like if he pulled a sleight-of-hand in front of you.

Make the glitz disappear I say! (sorry, bad pun, I know)