Happy new year!
January 3rd, 2008, 11:39 am · Post a Comment · posted by Aaron
It’s 2008, really, it’s 2008. Excited yet?
I always consider Jan. 2 to be the first real day of the new year. New Year’s Day, Jan. 1, just doesn’t count for me. It’s a day when most of the country is either recovering from the late night before, watching college football or doing both. It’s not a holiday steeped with history like Columbus Day, or one filled with tradition like Thanksgiving. It’s just a day to be completely lazy. One day to rest before you face the daunting task of trying not to screw up the next year.
For that matter, I love new year’s resolutions. I am historically bad at them — I still don’t make my bed, still overweight and still bite my nails, all resolutions of years past — but I like the idea of them and hence, make a lot. I sow my new years resolutions like the haphazard gardener. I throw a bunch out there at the beginning of the year and wait a few months to see which ones take root. And, I keep most of my resolutions private. There’s no use advertising a goal that even I don’t think I’ll keep. So you won’t see a list of my — it now numbers at least 10 — resolutions. But here are two I feel confident to share.
1) Do more of this, blogging.
When we first got the blogs on www.desertdispatch.com, there was a lot of excitement and the newsroom took to updating the “Off the I-15” blog with gusto. Then we all got busy and the blog moved to the back burner where it simmered until we scraped a minute or so out of our day to blog. Well, no more.
2) Limit fast food consumption to once a week.
Not sure if many people know where the Desert Dispatch office is, but you can literally stand in the parking lot and look out over the skyline and have your pick of deliciously unhealthy lunchtime options. I spent the last year sampling them all. So fast food regulars and employees on East Main Street, keep me honest on this one. If you see me in Del Taco on a Monday and then see me sneak in the again on a Friday, just remind me that there are seven days in a week.
There’s a peak of what I’ve got planned for Aaron Aupperlee 2008. What about you? Get your resolutions out in cyber-space and ask all us to help keep you on track in the new year.
— Aaron Aupperlee | city editor
