May your 2010 be beautiful and bright! Sort of like that picture. (See how I tied those two together? That only comes from blogging every day for a year.)

I’m worn out from staying up past 9, and NOT drinking – darn you DIET! But I’m looking forward to 2010 and many more posts where I totally make fun of myself and my family. In an unrelated note, if you have any fun photos of last night’s celebration, hopefully including wearing silly things on your head and vomit, please send them to me. No reason; I just like to see what I’ve missed by growing old.

365 books in 1 year. I know, I know, how DIFFICULT, but I will also be keeping track. See, doesn’t that sound like a tough resolution to keep? What did you expect from me – lose 10 pounds and keep a cleaner house? As if.

My dear, friend Deborah has notebooks FULL of the titles and descriptions of books she’s read and I’ve always wanted to steal the idea. PLUS I love to read and it’s good for my mental health.

So to recap, my New Year’s Resolutions are to spend more money, hang out at the lake, and read a bunch of books. I don’t think I’ve ever looked forward to a new year more.

What are YOU doing?

Since yesterday’s resolution was met with such praise, “It’s all about YOU, It’s selfish, Spending money? that’s IT?“, I thought I would continue with my lovely, carefully thought-out resolutions.

As a side bar, have you seen Julie/Julia? We watched it a couple of days ago and loved it. Did you know my mother has a small part in the film? She plays the mother of the blogger. Watch for her.

Back to business. My New Year’s #2 is – More Water!

Obviously, I don’t mean to actually DRINK it. Ewww. I hate water. Well, a vodka tonic is not so bad, but otherwise it’s so plain! I’m talking about water as in floating on, splashing with, skiing across, boating on top of – LAKE water! My dear, dear, beloved friend John has offered to sell me his boat and trailer at a VERY low price. He even said I could make payments if I wanted. It’s almost like he WANTS to get rid of it.

Whatever. I’m going to be ZolliGirl H2O in 2010.

My husband says it’s a good thing my Resolution #3 was to spend more money. See? The lake – it brings everyone together.

I’ve spent the last year trying to spend less, and let me just say, it stinks. I’m not a big spender anyway, preferring yard sales to retail, but this year I realized something vitally important: I don’t look so good. Those great bargains I’ve found over the summer aren’t so great when they don’t fit, aren’t the right color, or have tiny stains. There’s probably a REASON they were selling the Gap t-shirt for .50 cents, and it might be because puke green doesn’t look good on ANYBODY. Especially women of a certain age and weight. Face it, it is a small and you are NOT.

So bring on 2010. I’m 15 minutes from the Mall and I’ve got a brand new credit card. I’m going to get my hair done a week before it needs it, instead of three weeks past. I’m paying someone to wax my eyebrows, getting new glasses and shopping retail.  I’m going to  break through the stranglehold of cheapness that’s had me in it’s grip for an entire year and spend more money on me, my family, and my house. We are going to look GOOD. Or be broke by March. Whichever.

You know how I want to spend my day? Waiting in line at the Verizon store. THEN I want the Verizon tech to tell me that while he COULD give me another USED phone which might lead to the same defective port/no charging problem that I CURRENTLY have, I COULD call the stupid people who gave me the REFURBISHED phone in the first place and they’d send me a NEW one, no problemo. Then I want to call them and have them tell me that they COULD give me a phone, but I could do it much FASTER online. THEN I want to spend my time going through all of the online questions only to find out that it really CANT be fixed online. HA, HA! So THEN I want to call the number AGAIN and have them tell me that I don’t have the AUTHORITY to change my phone, so never mind.

And then I want to yell at the Verizon person and tell them thank you for NOT helping, and then spend the next few hours wondering if he left mean notes about me on the account. Of which I don’t have the authority to change.

Then I want to remember the time I got REALLY mad at our phone company and told them to CANCEL it, only to realize later that I’d cancelled ALL of our phones.

And finally, I want to realize that my crazy meter has jumped the shark and I need 2010 to come in a big way.

So, how was YOUR day?