Vernal Equinox Resolutions

Sunday morning I received an extraordinarily pleasant surprise.  It was Spring Forward day--Hooray!  I know, those who go to church love to bitch every year about losing an hour...hey, look at that-- another plus for the secular world.  (Also, those who don't go to church don't make their kids trick-or-treat at 4:30pm when Halloween is on a Sunday or Wednesday, but that's a sad saga for another time...)  Spring Forward is my second favorite holiday, after Easter.  They are grouped into the top tier for the following reasons:

1. end of winter!!!

2. longer days, sunnier evenings

3. beginning of warmth = self-esteem-achieved through tan = happiness

4. anticipation of summer holidays is now appropriate (yep, I'll be having them til I'm 29)

*These top two holidays would be tied for favorite, but Spring Forward just cannot compete with Peeps --i mean,  it's spun sugar, covered in sugar.  "Come On!" (see Gob, A.D. season 2)

 

This annual dawn of joy provides myriad pleasing consequences.   Every spring/summer my winter hibernation from all things/people is shed and i am once again capable of finding joy in new things, and maybe even new people (don't hold your breath, strangers-in-line-for-friendship).  

So, I've decided to use this joyful posture to my advantage by doing new things!  Winter is a time for re-reading classics and listening to the "slow" mix i made 7 years ago. Winter is a time to eat the same soup/bread/king size box of hot tamales for dinner every night. Winter -- bleach.

This spring I plan to do the following (and blog about it, of course):

1. Discover and read new fiction (and a little non-)

2. Get new music (actually new, not another Paul Simon song to add to my Simon-only playlist)

3. Start food blog, by which i will be both eating and writing about new things (p.s., if you can think of a good name for this, its the only things standing in my way...something to do with bread/butter might be best...)

4. go to new places in denver, i.e. restaurants which don't deliver, museums, bars, parks, etc

5. Learn new things -- most importantly typing, for my summer internship, and to keep myself from further ridicule, generally.  Also, spanish and french. should take a couple weeks. 

6. Learn more about gardening, house-repair and improvement, and implement that knowledge, so that next winter, when I hibernate, i'll be comfy as shit. 

Obviously, list writing is my forte, so in the coming weeks, its going to be a spring-list bonanza around here!!!  

P.S. In honor of spring, please re-watch "Evidence of things not seen"  (see season four)  CJ's faith in of the Vernal Equinox is so charming - it's magic!