YOUR NEW YEAR'S EVE PLANS: THE ULTIMATE TELL-ALL

One night of the year provides the perfect glimpse into your life. It captures the essence of who you are. 

New Year's Eve. 

This highly-scientific chart summarizes my own real-life New Year's Eves gone by:

It occurs to me that this would make a great game show. Guess who I am, based on what I'm doing this New Year's Eve. Kind of like to Tell The Truth, but for boring people. 

Most people I know don't really like New Year's Eve. They think it's a made-up holiday.  

I think it's a bummer holiday. I have no idea what the words to Aude Lang Syne actually mean, but it sounds remarkably like a funeral dirge. Slogging through the song while wearing a glittery party hat just doesn't make sense. Would you wear a tiara to have your teeth drilled?

Plus, I don't know anyone who uses New Year's Eve to reflect favorably on the year left behind. It's kind of a free pass to dump on the prior 12 months.  

That's not fair. Even in the worst of years, each of us can find ordinary moments that have made life extraordinary. And on New Year's Eve, we owe it to ourselves, and others, to focus on, and cherish, those moments. As difficult as it may. 

New Year's resolutions are a topic of their own. We all have them, and they usually involve some type of draconian deprivation. When setting yours this year, please be kind to yourself. You deserve to live purposefully, with wild abandon, and deliberate joy.

With or without a party hat. 

XOXO Annie

PS - In 2017, I'll be posting my blogs every 2 weeks, rather than every week. The joyride will continue, and I look forward to having you along!