nice to meet you, 2010.

I've been writing, deleting, and re-writing this for the last week. After all of the holiday hoopla, I think I'm finally finding myself back on solid ground with my head on straight. It's been a glorious two weeks of three day weekends with an indefinite amount of glorious naps and the like. I get ANOTHER three day weekend this week because...

THE DUCHESS IS COMING.

yes, that is right. She will be here (well, LAX) tomorrow morning and then is making the drive up to spend a couple (2, really) days with me before going back down south for a week-long cruise (no, I was not invited and I am not jealous. NOT ONE BIT. NOT AT ALL. BECAUSE I HATE DRINKING AND BEACHES AND SUN AND FUN.)

I'm excited to see her, even if it is just for a couple days. The tentative plan is to go wine tasting on Friday (because well, she is a drunk and I am my mothers daughter) and then dinner with the family out here and then Saturday is M's baby shower (side-note: full term, as of yesterday!) so Mom is needless to say, EXCITED AS ALL HELL, to be able to attend. So, it's brunch/shower in the morning and then, I'm not sure. They need to head back to LB sometime that evening so, we'll see where the day takes us.

Yeah, it's short. And not quite ideal but I haven't seen her in...8 months? HOLY GOD. I HAVEN'T SEEN MY MOTHER IN 8 MONTHS. I didn't even realize it had been that long until just now. I'm kind of a terrible kid I guess. Oh well, point being, she will be here taking up my weekend thus, not only did she give me the gift of life, support me for 18 years and all the other cool shit she's done for me, I get a third three-day weekend in a row because of her. THANKS MOM, YOU RULE.

Anyway, that's not what I've been writing and rewriting for the past week, that just came out of SHEER EXCITEMENT. But I feel obligated to acknowledge the new year? I don't do "resolutions", I think they're for sissies. You either do something, or you don't - that's it. Of course, I have ideas. Things that I tell myself I'll do and yes, make a conscious effort to try and achieve but if I don't, then I don't feel like a total failure. This year, mine are fairly simple I guess. And they go a little something like this: Be Healthier. Be Happier. Make better decisions. Love More.

I think that it's fairly simple? Maybe I'm just hoping that the simpler that they are, the more I'll want to stick to them. A new motto for 2010 perhaps? "Simple Times"? I think I could deal with it.