Creampuff Not Ready for a New Year

It's frikkin' New Year's Eve already and I do not feel prepared.  I generally try to avoid writing "A Year In Review" type posts, because as Edna says in The Incredibles, "I never look back, darling.  It distracts from the NOW."  I must say, though, that I DO enjoy a little Year in Preview. 

My resolutions this year include the mandatory "spend more time at the gym" and "flossing".  I am adding "kick my Neopet addiction" to this year's list and after my hilariously unsuccessful attempt earlier to drop off a grant application at 4:00 p.m. on a day that is both a Saturday AND New Year's Eve (the thing is due January 1st - why?  WHY?), I am also adding "be more organized."  I hope to achieve great things this year by cultivating a "virtuous cycle" of good habits.  "Virtuous cycle" (as in, the opposite of a "vicious cycle") is a phrase I learned on the CBC one morning and I find it very appealing.  I think that if Mrs. Parker had been part of the Virtuous Cycle instead of the Vicious Circle, she might not have been such a boozehound.

Katr got us off to a great start for the new year by single-handedly rearranging our entire study (desk, futon, filing cabinets, bookshelf, fishtank!) this afternoon.  Yes, while I was engaged in the back-breaking work of having a delightful lunch with friends, being locked out of a building wherein I hoped to leave my grant application and enduring minutes - MINUTES, I tell you! - of deep ire at the grocery store as the mouth-breathing clerk held up the line of irate shoppers with override error after override error, my girlfriend was actually MAKING OUR LIVES BETTER.  I was so impressed and grateful when I got home, I nearly dropped the New Year's Pie. 

Heroine though she is, Katr was probably wise to rearrange the study without my "help".  Katr and I do many things well together but moving large objects around a room is not one of them.  It really comes down to communication and how when spacial relations is involved, we just cannot handle it. We get in each other's way - we look at each other quizzically - when we speak to each other, our tones suggest that each comment should be followed by "dumbass", as in "I don't think the drawer should be facing the wall, dumbass."

Though Katr would never say this, the REAL reason we can't rearrange rooms together is that when Katr rearranges a room, she organizes, plans and executes in a logical way.  When I rearrange a room, I should be wearing a helmet.  And the room should be padded.  And if Katr has to watch, she should probably be sedated.  When it comes to rearranging rooms, Katr and I are like Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman in the opening credits in the '80's TV classic, Beauty & the Beast - "[when it comes to rearranging rooms] although we cannot be together, we will never, ever be apart."  I'm the hairy, sewer-dwelling one.  In case you were wondering.

In any case, I wish you all a very Happy New Year and all the best in 2006!  "More frequent posting" is definitely on my list - right after "knit cozy for helmet".

Comments

[newyorkex]

omg. I LOVED Beauty and the Beast! It was the only time I thought I could fall in love with a man/lion. Except I loved Linda Hamilton more. Do you think her mental illness started as a result of this show?

[roro]

I loved it too! I thought I had a crush on Vincent as well, but it turns out I just wanted to BE him so that I could have "a bond that is stronger than friendship or love" with Catherine. If you know what I mean. And I think you do.

As for her mental illness - thwarted eternal love with a man/lion vs. being hunted down by a homicidal robot from the future - I don't think Linda really had a chance.

[Kristi Shupp-George]

Hmm, we never manage to keep that dumbass part in our heads when we are moving furniture or putting things together. There is at least one "Fine" as well before someone, usually me, stalks off.

[roro]

Ah, yes. We USED to stalk off (or stomp, truth be told), but this "waiting 'til the other person has left and doing it alone" seems to work well. Worked with the Solstice Tree, worked with the study . . . I highly recommend it!

Thanks for your Christmas card, by the way - you guys are the cutest!

[drew]

I, also, tout the joys of working on projects without one's significant other. Generally the best way to stay with your signficant other.

Glad you guys waited until after I left to conquer the study. I don't think I bought enough beer to deal with the stress it would have caused.

[roro]

Drew, you're probably right. You were a brave man to offer your help, though! Treat yourself to a beer.

[Winter]

I don't think I could let anyone help me arrange a room. I would just end up giving orders in an annoying tone of voice: "No, not there, over there, no, you're doing it wrong" etc. Cue, end of relationship.

My New Year wassail was most good this year btw.