So we have reached the conclusion of this spectacular year.  So much has happened, and at the same time so very much has not yet occurred.  I will not bore you with the recaps that you can get just by turning on the television or passing a news stand.  I will say that I enjoyed it, although we did cry at times.  I am however, ready to call it quits and move to the new and fresh version...isn't that what we all expect from each next year that follows?  It's like our own personal re-boot.  We decide in advance what we don't like about ourselves and declare them aloud to friends and neighbors that we will be making a change.  We want our lives to magically be transformed at midnight like Cinderella at the ball.  We want to be kissing the right person.  Planning the right future for our selves and others.  Most of us would also like to be drunk and have a new story to tell.

I do like to make my resolutions...but I try to not be normal with them.  I like to come up with something I can actually do....something personal.  I haven't decided on anything unique yet though.  I have declared that my husband in 2009 and going forward will keep a more cleanly garage.  I myself, will in fact loose 30 pounds for my best friend's wedding.  And we, most importantly,  have decided that we will be adding to our family this coming year.  So that will start next week...I will see to that.  Get your mind out of the gutter...we will be adopting silly.

So for what else 2009 will bring...I just don't know.  I am a person that believe in obtainable goals, so I will give myself some realistic things to accomplish, I know that.

I haven't given Ellen any yet...last year I declared her to cut at least one tooth and she started that night, so I need to plan her goals VERY carefully....apparently she takes it seriously. 



So this is also my final entry for the 2008 Blog.  I want to end it on a good sound note.  I hope that you all have enjoyed my ramblings, my random thoughts, my life lessons and my stupid quotes, although they may not always make sense to you. 

My blog is my own little journal.  It's just me expressing myself the way anyone would in a diary or a journal but in a more public forum.  Some stuff I write just because it popped into my head (as you can tell.)  Other entries are because I feel I have something to say....most I think, are just for my own entertainment...my own fun.  I guess a lot of it's purpose is because I  want something I can hand down to my daughter some day and she can know who I was....she can try to follow the inner workings of my simple but enigmatic mind.

At the conclusion of each year I have all my entries printed up as a keepsake...they're fun to look back on sometimes.  Sometimes I scare myself....other times I'm quite impressed and wonder, who wrote that? 



So as I sign off for 2008 I leave you with yet another Dove Chocolate Candy message....it says;  "If old acquaintances be forgot, give them a call and remember."

There ya go!...now I have a new goal...I will be getting in touch with Christie Stoddard this year...my ole' horse show chum!  That'll be fun.  Joe Jump, if you're out there... be ready....I'm coming for you!


Tonight though....relax with friends.  Be smart...Be safe....and Dan says....

We drank a toast to innocence,
We drank a toast to now.
Reliving in our eloquence,
Another 'auld lang syne'......

        - Dan Fogelberg

My favorite part of that song is actually the end....

And as I turned to make my way back home,
The snow turned into rain ..............

I don't know why...I just like it.



So again, be safe, be happy, and as always, be awesome! 

I hope I see you in the new year....the new you...new and improved?....naa, just be you....you are perfect just the way you are...

            .....well most of you anyways....

    
        Take Care!