RESOLUTIONS

I used to do that for the first month every year. Now I rarely need to write a check anymore, so I have improved by default.

Good to know I’m not the only person still writing checks. I can’t make you feel any better, but I can pass on something I started doing for readily apparent reasons.

I learned long ago to make the entry in the check register before I wrote the check. Much more recently, come the new year, I leave a blank line in the register, highlight it and write the new year in as both a reminder and being able to easily find out when I paid for something. (Or if I paid for something.) Probably not that much help if you’ve got one of those really fancy check books where you have a stub with details. Maybe a book mark with the YEAR?

Happy 2 Oh! 2 Five ! If it makes ya feel better, I am one of the geezers that still writes a few checks. Not many of us left!

Mas, I’ve always had trouble “changing dates”. It would take me at least 2 months to get used to the new year. Now that I’ve retired, I can’t keep up with anything date-related – including what day of the week it is! At least at work, I had to date paperwork of several sorts, and I had the framework of the work week to keep me oriented. Now, I often ask Bonnie, “what day of the week is this?”; her reply is usually “I don’t know, let me look at my watch…”

But by the same token, When we had a bit of snow last week, I didn’t have to clean off a car, or drive to work in the @#%&!!!! snow, share the pavement with idiots who didn’t know how to handle frozen roads – none of the stuff that used to put me in such a foul mood. I just relied on Southern snow removal – that big bright object that moves across the sky every day. Sadly, we’re in for more of the same, I hear.

You still write checks???

What a contrast. I think this is the first year in about the last dozen or so that I finally did write the correct year right off the bat. Something must have gone wrong so I think I need to go back and correct that by writing in the wrong year.

Hell I struggle going month to month still. 🗓️ 🤣

I was proud of the fact that I dated the paperwork for my new range card 2025 (not the usual mistake of using the prior year)–until the clerk pointed out that I wrote down February 5, 2025 when I should have dated my signature as 1/5/2025.

I am well aware that pride is a sin. But, I continue to require to be shown examples of why I should be humble.

It recalls to mind Winston Churchill’s put down: “He is a humble man, with much to be humble about.”

So far so good…. 2025 should be a fantastic year…..

Me too, at work, but luckily caught myself in time. It was a shift log, so rather important to get it right!

If your New Year’s Resolution is to avoid mistakenly writing the previous year, that means you have made a whole lot of progress in other areas of life!

2024 was my big, or should I say little, year when it comes to my resolution. I did the whole “this is the year I lose the weight” resolution that I’ve done for the past several years. Well, in 2024 I lost almost 100lbs and I feel fantastic! Now for 2025, the resolution is keeping it that way!

“I’m so glad 2020 is over!” and the “hits” keep coming.

Our family life went through a number of crises every years starting in 2016: parent’s dying, siblings dying, hurricanes ruining homes, floods “drowning” 2/3rds of our friends, customers, businessess, economy, etc.
So at year’s end of 2022 when a meme came on my phone saying “I’m so glad 2020 is over!” … I just looked at it and my draw dropped .. that was exactly how I felt.
In fact, even as we enter 2025, I still find myself “processing” the last two years of more of those same crises.