new years

"The New Year is the day that marks the beginning of a new calendar year. It's always a great time for me because I get to start fresh. I can leave so much of the BS from the past year exactly where it belongs: in the past. That jury notice I got a few weeks ago? No longer existent. Those state taxes I forgot to file? Not my problem. The past-due 2010 employee reviews? Not an obligation anymore. As soon as Seacrest starts the countdown and the clock hits midnight, a magical feeling of complete and stutter relief fleshes over me. It's wonderful. Time to say aloha ("goodbye" not "hello") to the worst of 2010 and pretend a lot of it never even happened. It's God's "get out of jail free" card (unless you're really in jail, and then, ya know...you're stuck there for now). This New Year's I'm gonna blast some Gloria Estefan, blow my noisemaker until I explode an eardrum or two, and cheers to brand new beginnings 'cause that's what it's all about. Happy New Year everybody."

-Michael Scott, Dunder Mifflin Newsletter

..whose work has come to nothing

Now all the truth is out,
Be secret and take defeat
From any brazen throat,
For how can you compete,
Being honor bred, with one
Who were it proved he lies
Were neither shamed in his own
Nor in his neighbors' eyes;
Bred to a harder thing
Than Triumph, turn away
And like a laughing string
Whereon mad fingers play
Amid a place of stone,
Be secret and exult,
Because of all things known
That is most difficult.

-William Butler Yeats

on the verge

so.. wow. I just finished up writing a letter to my missionary, that I totally neglected for the last 4 months. So many memories are flying through my head right now. Memories of those great times we shared when we were kids. Elder Sam Moffat comes home in July! That is so darn soon.

On another note, I all of a sudden have this strong desire to do something drastic. Like, dye my hair really blonde. Like leave home early. I'm not totally set on one particular action quite yet, though. I just wanna throw myself into a new life, to the extreme.

Hmmm...

good riddance

I've got to get you out of my head.