New Year's Resolutions

As you can see, the boys are off to a good start this year. My resolution last year was to take them to a dentist for the first time. It never happened. So my goal this year is to brush their teeth enough to not need to see a dentist.

David took the initiative and made resolutions for us all:
1. For Dad: to go to work, then come back home and stay home for a whole week.
2. For Mom: to take me (David) where I want to go on my schedule every day. (He is a planner like his mom and likes to write [scribble] lists of where he wants to go for the day. We are still yet to visit the bat cave or the planet Drool).
3. For Jack: to do whatever he wants to do. (wait... that's what he already does every day)
4. For David: to transform into Krypto the super dog because he wears a cape and a leash with a Superman symbol, to play with Play-Doh next week, and to learn to drive a Bonecrusher (the mere fact that he refers to his desired vehicle as a "bone crusher" is a legitimate argument against child drivers... long live the "legal driving age law").

(It just occurred to me that "Bonecrusher" is a Transformer that looks like this)

Here are some of my resolutions:

1. Spend more time upside down.
2. Make peace with our household electronic devices.
3. Replace our home phone. (Yep, for the last month, I have not had a phone because like all electronic devices I touch, it stopped working. Sadly, I don't think anyone has noticed. Or if you have noticed, sorry I never called you back. I know.. I know... this is nothing new. Sorry about that too. Oh... yeah, I guess I have a cell phone. Ok, if someone could kindly tell me what my # is and where it's been for the last few weeks, I would appreciate it. Yeah... phones are not my forte).
4. Try new cheeses (apparently there are hundreds in existence... just ask anyone from France).

5. Live in the moment, not in several different moments simultaneously that have already happened or not happened yet.
6. Stop adding ridiculous goals to my 30 year bucket list... there are only 6 months left to complete them... and they're ridiculous.
(like becoming a master chef and learning all the latin-based languages). One of my ridiculous goals was actually completed inadvertently... to write a book. As I was uploading my blog to a website that actually converts it into a book: Blurb.com, I realized... hey, this is a book, and I wrote it! Is it a book that anyone other than Rich and me will be interested in?... no, of course not. But that's not the point. So to enlighten all of my blogger friends that have at least a few months worth of posts, YOU have ALL written a book! Yea for us!

Something cool. Remember when I joined a bunch of people from Chico in dancing the "Thriller"? A picture of it ended up in Time Magazine. I thought someone was just teasing me until Rich picked up a copy and discovered it was true. Among pictures from major cities around the world in the simultaneous "Thrill the World" event was a picture of Chico, CA. Somehow our little town made the cut. It's on page 63 of this issue:

This is the picture. I hope this doesn't count as my "15 minutes of fame" as not a single stranger has pointed me out on the street. I guess that zombie make-up was just too good.  It was exciting enough, though, to warrant a dance around the living room with magazine-in-hand singing "I'm the King of New York" from the movie Newsies. "Tomorrow they may wrap fishes in it, but I was a star for one whole minute..."