Every January is weird.
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Every January is weird.
Some are making resolutions to change things.
Some are hoping nothing is different than the year before.
All of us can’t believe it’s another year and ask, ‘Where did the time go?’
Trust me, I’ll be asking the same question in about two days. I mean 351, but it will feel like two days.
I don’t really believe in resolutions because I think putting a title on wishes or hopes makes it harder for people to achieve or to live up to the expectation set up by the individual or the inner circle.
Sure, there are things I want to do, just like every year.
I want to lose weight. I want to stop loving ice cream, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, and ice tea. I want to put more focus in Edge of Your Seat Podcast (shameless plug, check it out at rss.com/podcasts/edgeofyourseatpodcast, X, Facebook, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts). I’d love to catch up with stories since I have talked to people in September, October, and November and haven’t got the stories into the Amboy News or Mendota Reporter because of lack of time and space.
Traveling is always on the top of my list and I’m starting it immediately in 2025 by taking my mother to the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville for her 60th birthday. My future destinations hopefully include an Alaskian cruise, France, Great Brittan, Australia, Iceland, Finland, Switzerland, and my grandmother’s house in Rockton (her backyard is the Wisconsin border).
My car needs to stay awesome, which takes work, time, and for it to quit snowing, raining.
The POP! Dolls staring at me (Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, and Notorious B.I.G.) while I’m writing this, need some new friends in the office.
My new apartment in Mendota needs some more furniture such as a water (I don’t drink coffee) table, end tables, a dresser, and a couple of odd ball things. I need to take a shelf out of its box and put it together. I should take my personal computer out of the office and put it in the Edge of Your Seat Podcast studio. I also need some chairs or stools for the lonesome kitchen table.
Please don’t purchase anything or bring me furniture you don’t use anymore. I appreciate the offer, but I got a master plan.
Nikes are in abundance on my shoe rack already, but there can always be more.
I told a friend I’d find newspaper articles from a decade ago and I haven’t yet.
The beginning of 2025 is my fourth year as an IHSA basketball official, third for volleyball, second for softball and baseball, and first for football, while the end of the year will add a year to all of my sports.
With each game, I try to take something to improve and become a better official, even if I don’t agree with those yelling in the bleachers or in my face on the sideline.
I want to see my family more often than just the holidays.
Each and every one of these wants, wishes, or goals, are not intended for a unique or specific year. They are things that I need to do any day or every day from now until I no longer have the ability to do them.
And once they’re erased from the priority list or the junk drawer of projects, they’ll be replaced by another. And then another. And another. They’ll continue to build and continue to be completed.
None of them are resolutions we need to do in a year or for the year. These are things I should always be doing, without an expiration date.
While I’m accomplishing one mission after a mission, I’m doing the one thing I always ask myself to do, make this year better than the last.
This time around, at least for the first half of the past year, it’s going to be an extremely hard objective as 2024 brought some amazing laughs and memories.
However, there can be more cheesing and additional brain storage used in 2025 as we move forward looking for this year to be better than the last.