Before making any new promises, let’s take another look at last year’s resolutions ( with more current photos), shall we?
Henry promised:
- I will quit eating catshit
- I will try to be less cute, so that the other critters get equal attention
- I won’t try to climb on Sharon’s head
Still does the first; judge for yourself on the second; minor improvement on the third.
Lucy vowed:
- I will be less neurotic, so that I don’t have to be so brave
- I will remember that I am not the boss of the cats
- I will keep playing tug-a-war, which I just discovered, with Henry
Actually, some progress on the first! Not so much on the other two, though.
Boo swore:
- I will risk coming downstairs when we have company
- I will stop playing with cat turds on the staircase
- I will spend more time on the lap, and less on the shoulder
That second one is hopeless, I fear. But she is less shy!
Spike said:
- I will, for another year, not bite anyone
- I will be less of a bully
- I will be kinder to my teddy bear
Wow. Spike has not bitten anyone! Spike has mellowed! (We’ll just forget about teddy for the moment…)
Squirrel(s) sort of committed:
- I will share more with my siblings and cousins
- I will not chew the ottoman
- I will stop teasing the neighborhood dogs
Ah, well. It was silly to think I had any influence over them, anyway. Although I have enjoyed watching a pair of them . . . um . . . act like it’s spring, in the lilac tree, today.
And what about the human?
Well you should ask.
My New Year Resolution in January 2005 was to quit smoking:
I did great. For 1 1/2 years. Then, in the fall, I began smoking with a neighbor, and quickly got up to four cigarettes a day. Sometimes three, occasionally five.
Now it’s been almost two weeks without a smoke; the neighbor is out of town. I’m going nuts. I swear my mind is muddier without nicotine.
Really.
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