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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Wow, it's the year 2000. Can you believe it? Seems so very strange that it has finally arrived. I've been waiting nearly 40 years for this day. Is it all that I expected it to be? It's not quite like the "Jetson's" (I just loved that cartoon) but technology has changed itself dramatically since the day I was born. I mean, really, I'm sitting here typing my thoughts out on this computer which is hooked up to the Internet and the World Wide Web where I have my very own web page that practically has my whole life displayed. And we thought the invention of the electric typewriter with correction capability was cool :-)
What are my New Year's resolutions?? That's simple... I have one: To live each and every day exactly how I want to live it. So that means, if I want to lose weight for the day, I will. If I want to quit smoking for the day, I will. If I want to hop on my treadmill and exercise, I will. And if I DON'T want to do these things, I WON'T. And I won't feel guilty either. Life is just too short to worry about things that won't possibly make you happy... if you aren't happy with yourself right now, this minute, just the way you are, then that should be your #1 goal. Accept yourself, your situation, your life right now and be happy. Then and only then incorporate those other things that will spice it up.
May the year 2000 be all that you want it to be and more...
JANUARY 9, 2000
Hello again ;-) This past week was unusually long... maybe because I was off work so long during the holidays or maybe just because I wasn't getting enough sleep and I was unusually tired. I did sleep 10 hours last night so am feeling much better. I can't sleep that many hours during the week. I'm doing good if I get 7. Anyway, something exciting happened last week. My brother Bob finally got online! This means that all my brothers and sister are online and communicating with each other... well sort of. This is so cool. In fact, I know that Bob won't really have the time and from what I hear, he really doesn't want to learn about all this technology, but I think this new idea of mine might just be the ticket for all of us since none of us really have the time for a bunch of emails flying back and forth... except Mike and I who have been doing that for months now. What I'm trying to get to is that I'm going to create a "MyFamily" page where anyone of us can post news, upload pictures, share recipes, etc. I really hope they all like the idea as much as I do. This way, they don't have to write emails, they can just go visit the page to see what, if anything, is going on in our family. Pretty cool, huh? I'll keep you posted!
JANUARY 29, 2000
Well, it's that time again... Time for another checkup with my doctor... The CT scan and doctor's appointment are both on Feb 8th. Of course, these visits always scare me and this time is no different. No, nothing has changed, it's just that I always try to prepare myself for the worse so that nothing sneaks up on me. Sounds silly, huh? But bad news would be just too devastating for me to take if I weren't prepared. On the upside, Dad is going with me. I always have fun when he's along for the ride. We'll visit the casinos and eat at one of the buffets the first night and the second night we'll probably go eat at the KFC buffet. Creatures of habit :-)
I'll post the good news upon my return... yes, I always try to throw some positive thinking into my thoughts too.
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