Bang!

I started this year with one!
Yesterday marked the end of a lot of things for Ms Willow Wonder. For instance, at precisely midnight my first year in the envious role of Mr K. Mikey Merrill’s lady friend came to a close. Yup, it’s been a full 365 1/2 days since I tricked that man into dating me. Woo hoo! We celebrated by not really kissing because I have a giant cold sore (SICK SICK SICK!!!!) and not really dancing because Mike wasn’t drunk enough. BUT, we had an awesome New Year’s Eve party at the fiesta-friendly Jupiter Hotel with lots of fun friends and pink champagne. My favorite part of the evening was when a group of drunk (mostly) ladies- including and perhaps featuring myself- started “jamming” with Michael Jackson using our 10 cent noise-makers. It sounded a lot like, “I want to love you BWOOO BWOOO BWOOO, pretty young thing, BWOOO BWOOO BWOooo,” which is to say it sounded awesome. And lasted a long time. And was really very awesome. To us.
Yeah man, 2006 was ka-razy alright. I finished graduate school, thus becoming a MASTER, got my first real teaching job, my first apartment by myself, my first cat as a grown up lady, and I went on a cool Vegas vacation. Oh, and the democrats took control of congress- holla! I also got in a small car accident, fell out with a good friend, and found out my back is both too crooked and too straight. But all in all the good triumphed over the rotten, and I declare 2006 a success- the banner year that was predicted. By me. And Mike and (I think) Steve.
Soooo, 2007. You have got a LOT to live up to, I’m afraid. You better bring out some bells and some whistles. Right now, please.
I do have some resolutions. Of course. They’re pretty boring this year and I will probably fail, but I will share them with you anyway. Because boring is my gift to you!
1. Blog every day for a month. Starting today. Liz did it in November and it was rad.
2. Take my iron-rich multivitamins for crying out loud!!! All I have to do to stave off anemia is take the effing vitamins, and yet I almost never do. I got a very stern note in the mail from my doctor last week about just this issue, and I vow to do right by her! No more pale, spacey, chronically fatigued Willow! 2007 is the year of flushed, focused, chronically energized Willow!
3. Initiate more social occasions with my friends- at least one per week, actually. See, one of the benefits of having a very socially-engaged boyfriend is that there is lots of fun stuff to tag along to. The downside is that you end up at more business meetings than happy hours (if you have my boyfriend- I LOVE YOU MIKE!) and you don’t end up seeing some of your tight friends enough. Of course, without Mike I would probably have spent the past four months alone in my apartment seeing no one because I’ve been a leeetle depressed lately, so I am very grateful for all of the events he’s let me ride shotgun to. I’m just ready to plan some pit stops of my own.
I have some job related goals, too, but they’re so bizarrely specific I won’t go into them here. Although maybe as the month goes on I’ll get a little light on material and end up laying out my eight week plan for revamping my guided reading program. Oh, the joys that are in store for you, dear readers, in 2007!
Which reminds me.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!