What's your New Years Resolution ?

[Hey-O]

Fifty years ago this coming weekend, my wife broke up with me, three months after we started dating. I made New Years resolutions in that era. She felt I had no assured sense of direction, and I'd made no consequential decisions at that point in my life. Things changed rapidly from that point on. I gathered up the remnants of my relatively aimless college education, got a job with a living wage, saved my money, and started my career in the trucking business. We got back together two years after the break up, and never looked back.

My wife seems to have a knack for attracting people who make horrible life decisions, she is non threatening, and has a soft heart. But she had zero tolerance for indecisiveness in a spouse, and scared me into being somewhat successful. I haven't made a New Years resolution since we've been married.

We share a common denominator, driven by a cause. Needing to be something for someone is a huge motivator. Failure wasn't an option. She picked me to make a stand with her against the world. For a kid, that is a big deal and a whole bunch of scary.

Resolutions happened daily. One day, on August 19, I woke up and chose that day to stop smoking. Things like that are driven by a decision to take control. I make decisions, not resolutions.

 

[moparedtn]

Sort of morbid. Avert your eyes if such offends you easily:
Not a resolution per se (I never do those), but more of a continuation of working towards finalizing things
so that when my freshness date is up, she doesn't have much to do other than execute the plan.
I ain't much, so it shouldn't BE much to wrap it up behind me when I go....

That also includes allowing Him to "take the wheel" as the song goes; that has proven tougher than I imagined.
If there's a resolution in this, I guess that resolve is it, but it's going to get done.

I see the above as positives; improvements to the situation, as it were. It's all good and I'm grateful for the
time I've been given to get these tasks done.

 

[1967coronet]

I am going to put new tires on the Coronet.
(I wanted to follow through on at least one)

 

[Outlawd]

mine is to remember to write 2025 instead of 2024....

 

[icetech]

None... i am what i am...

 

[Hey-O]

Sort of morbid. Avert your eyes if such offends you easily:
Not a resolution per se (I never do those), but more of a continuation of working towards finalizing things
so that when my freshness date is up, she doesn't have much to do other than execute the plan.
I ain't much, so it shouldn't BE much to wrap it up behind me when I go....

That also includes allowing Him to "take the wheel" as the song goes; that has proven tougher than I imagined.
If there's a resolution in this, I guess that resolve is it, but it's going to get done.

I see the above as positives; improvements to the situation, as it were. It's all good and I'm grateful for the
time I've been given to get these tasks done.

There's nothing morbid about taking care of business. The stories are endless of those that procrastinate and leave the mess to those that can least handle it in that flash of a moment where true sadness robs people of any common sense. We lost a member not long ago and the one left was rendered useless. You don't have to do a prearranged set up, but a place to rest and the money to do it would be nice.

Morbid, is allowing our loved ones to be left alone with no help to deal with it and nothing in their pockets. You're doing the right thing, no it's not fun, but not being ready is by far worse. We should all have our ticket ready for the ride.

 

[WileE]

None... i am what i am...

 

[DeltaV]

No more project cars!

You feeling ok there buddy?

 

[chargervert]

Kinda underwhelmed, I bought the Corvette and it needs almost nothing!

 

[Richard Cranium]

Wife Announces New Year Resolutions For Husband

Jan 2, 2025

RED BLUFF, CA — As people ring in the new year by taking on resolutions meant to improve their lives, local wife and mother Karen Moore took it upon herself to graciously announce a number of resolutions for her husband so he wouldn't have to.

"He never makes New Year's resolutions," she said. "But I know that deep down he really wants to be a better person for me — I mean himself."
Karen's husband, Tim, is now resolved to lose 30 pounds, take the kids to school everyday, make more money, take a romantic trip to Cancun, learn to salsa dance, and buy new curtains for the house. All for his benefit.

"New Year's resolutions are hard, but I know he can do it," Mrs. Moore said. "He has no choice."

When asked to comment, Tim's wife helpfully spoke for him, noting that Tim was "very happy" to have so many New Year's resolutions to work so hard on and that he was "very excited" about all the salads he would be eating.

At publishing time, Karen Moore had already failed her New Year's resolution to stop being so controlling.

 

[kiwigtx]

Kinda underwhelmed, I bought the Corvette and it needs almost nothing!

Walk shorts, long white walk socks, white sneakers, mirrored sunglasses, man-purse...... you got all of that already?

 

[chargervert]

Walk shorts, long white walk socks, white sneakers, mirrored sunglasses, man-purse...... you got all of that already?

None of the above,I have regular straight leg jeans,black shoes,a Mopar tee shirt,black leather jacket,cheater glasses because i'm old,and no effing purse of any kind because I don't have any money to put in it,because I own lots of Mopars!

 

[zyzzyx]

Stop lying to myself!

 

[Budnicks]

I don't really do them anymore, that way I don't 'not do them'...
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I started about a month & 1/2 a go
I've been eating less & losing weight 'but', cutting out junk food, sugars
I want to lose like 25#s more & keep it off, I'd like to get to 225#s
but not a resolution, it's just for me, better peace of mind, to better health

 

[Dennis H]

Continue to spend down the kids inheritance. The heck with em. Example: $9 Draft today at lunch.

 

[dadsbee]

Continue to spend down the kids inheritance. The heck with em. Example: $9 Draft today at lunch.

..and a new clutch ! LOL

 

[Budnicks]

Wife Announces New Year Resolutions For Husband

Jan 2, 2025

RED BLUFF, CA — As people ring in the new year by taking on resolutions meant to improve their lives, local wife and mother Karen Moore took it upon herself to graciously announce a number of resolutions for her husband so he wouldn't have to.

"He never makes New Year's resolutions," she said. "But I know that deep down he really wants to be a better person for me — I mean himself."
Karen's husband, Tim, is now resolved to lose 30 pounds, take the kids to school everyday, make more money, take a romantic trip to Cancun, learn to salsa dance, and buy new curtains for the house. All for his benefit.

"New Year's resolutions are hard, but I know he can do it," Mrs. Moore said. "He has no choice."

When asked to comment, Tim's wife helpfully spoke for him, noting that Tim was "very happy" to have so many New Year's resolutions to work so hard on and that he was "very excited" about all the salads he would be eating.

At publishing time, Karen Moore had already failed her New Year's resolution to stop being so controlling.

I know it's just a joke, but;

That doesn't sound like someone "from Red Bluff Ca.", at all
it's a lil' rodeo hick town mostly, very conservative, but growing
albeit;
they do have a huge Walmart there now

(my middle 1 year 7 months older sister Candy
[a 'former' Tehama co. supervisor, she was too liberal]
& my step father Bob retired 37 year Union Pipefitter still lives there,
also parttime my niece Sabrina [liberal arts/film major] runs a non profit,
she went to Chico State & her kids, a 20 y/o boy & a 22 y/o girl too,
they stay there at my sisters ranch, when they come down from Lincoln city Oregon,
to tug-pull on their moms purse/apron strings, to get out of the crappy
Oregon weather-coastal fog)

That lady, she must be from the bay area,
or an Oregon transient

 

[Scott Engelhardt]

I make the same ones every year. Two more minutes. Take two minutes to do the paperwork before i leave the shop. Charge fairly for my work. Take every opportunity I can to spend time with my family.
It’s way too easy for me to move on to the next job and forget to charge for all of my work. I tend to let my work be the most important part of my life.