Happy Holidays?

   Christmas has once again come and gone. Another year come to pass. It's been a fairly good year, every year has it's ups and downs, this year had more ups than downs thankfully.

   Not much new to report nothing worth mentioning anyway. I do feel older now, for once. It hit me at the annual Christmas party that the family has every year. Maybe it was the games of "Beer Pong" or "Taps" aka "Flippie Cup" or the half a dozen or so alcoholic beverages I had consumed by the time it was time to open presents, or as us older cousins do, open our envelopes. We don't really get presents that we unwrap anymore, they come in envelopes now. But as I sat in the hallway overlooking the living room at Twan's I felt what the older cousins, who are now the young parents, must have felt when they were around our age. They'd transitioned from kids to the adults and I was now in the process of experiencing that transition. As I stared down into the living room through my alcoholic buzz, I realized that never would I have the same smile as my younger cousins had as they tore through the wrapping paper and marveled at the new toys they just received. I came to the realization that I was grown up that it was time for me to stop messing around and figure out what the hell to do with myself. Make myself truly useful in some capacity. So alcohol, in the words of Homer (Simpson not of the Illiad), can be or is the source of all of lifes problems and solutions. In my case it was sort of the solution. It empowered me to get focused and re-orient myself. That is until we played "Taps" again and I busted out another glass of Sangria. Btw, who plays "Taps" and "Beer Pong" at a family function? My crazy ass cousins and I when we're bored!

   So another year is about to commence, hopefully this upcoming year will have an exhausting number of ups rather than downs. This year will hopefully allow me to accomplish more goals and aspirations. I don't really want to make any new years resolutions, mostly because I'll probably just break them anyway. One thing I do want to do for sure is to quit the smokey smoke. That's right folks I want to quit that demon that is my vice. I want to kick that monkey off my freaking back. I plan on having the my last cig before midnight and start the new year off smoke free...we'll see how this goes.

   On a completely random note I was going to my car to warm it up on the way to pick up pizza for the fam and I took one step after the steps onto my driveway and BAM my foot gave out from under me on the ice. Now my left knee cap is bruised to hell, my right upper arm hurts, and I just feel like a complete jack hole.

   Well hope you have a safe and fun New Year!