Happy 2009!
My grandmother always said to take care of what you do on New Year’s Day because you’d end up doing it every day of the next year. My mom told me this morning that my grandmother therefore avoided doing laundry on New Year’s. Of course, if doing laundry were as easy for her as it is for me with all my modern conveniences, then I’m sure that it wouldn’t have been on her list of things to avoid doing. That woman was no shirker.

On this first day of 2009, I
read
cooked some new recipes
shopped for groceries
smiled a lot
did laundry
and learned to play the bass, a little

If I have to do those things every day of the coming year, well, that’d be fine with me.