No Resolutions for Me!

May you all have a wonderful New Year, filled with love, health, happiness and hope!  To all who have made resolutions, we wish you success!  That coming from one of the BIGGEST procrastinators that ever walked the face of the earth.  So bad is the issue, I refer to myself as someone who works well under pressure!  Dear God I find excuses for procrastinating, yet it all gets done.  Amazing!  Maybe I have reached the age where I can 't remember if it all gets done or not, in any event who cares!  Have I ever made a New Years' resolution?  Absolutely!  Have I ever followed through is a more appropriate question.  Follow through depends on a number of things: first and foremost, experts say twenty one days is all it takes to establish a new habit...that's bull-poop!  Every year during the Fred's News years, I made a promise to myself; I will not procrastinate, I will not procrastinate, I will not procras........!  Much like a grammar school punishment, I will not write on the desk, I will not write on the desk, one hundred times over....doesn't do it for me. So, I have concluded, twenty-one days of doing the same thing over and over, is boring, I hate myself for it.  Another words...I set myself up for failure...stupid ass!

I have found it is better to prioritize.....the obvious, most important first!  We all agree, fun things should be first and there again as a procrastinator, I always have that option...don"t I?  A constant battle is always raging within...do I really have too? That of course is always followed by the big WHY?  After years of self-analysis my findings...mostly the procrastination has to do with myself.....If I promise someone I will do something...I do, I think I do...if I don't please call me on that...maybe I forgot.....or is it another form of putting things off..EEK..procrastinating again!

On the other hand the Egg-Nazi says:  "You are the most stubborn person I have ever met!"  Actually my sub-conscience refers to it as DETERMINED!  My theory "I have reached the ripe age (notice no old in there)of fifty-eight, have raised an entire family of the male species, Fred the Dog (male) included in that, worked 24/7 for twenty-three years with my best friend, husband and soul-mate.....have resisted the desire to "do him in" many times over, including the children and the dog , just for a moments peace.  Each year I was asked by my loving family "What do you want for your birthday".  First and foremost, the day off, alone; no questions that need immediate answers;  no problems that have or are in the process of occurring, short of one of their impending "deaths" (A bit dramatic, maybe), and if any of those things occur, I don't want to have to "fix" or know about them, until the next day.  Of course all bets are off if there is an impending death! There again a bit dramatic!  Now the way I see this issue,  having NEVER received my birthday wish, I am not the only procrastinator that came from that household....or, hmmm, "Did I raise a houseful of procrastinators?"...."Did I really ask for that present or do I just think I did?"........"Did I have good intentions, and put off asking for another year or did I procrastinate?"  Self analysis, SUCKS!  Sorry Mr. G, I know you hate that phrase.

As for my family, I adore them, the best in the world, I love them to "infinity and beyond", I wish them success, love, health happiness, I never procrastinate on letting them know my feelings....and I do it often, so I won't forget.  Did I make a New Years' Resolution.....Nope, don't like to fail...I am a survivor..ask the male species of the family...minus Fred the Dog...God love 'em!