Always Put Last Night's Panties in the Laundry Basket

Two days into 2007 and already I'm late. I had resolved to post more often this year. To be more active on the web. And well, two days isn't so bad but considering I've been thinking about posting off and on for the last week, well, again, I'm a victim of my own procrastination.

Hell, I resolved to make resolutions this year and I haven't even done that.

Regardless, here's some random things.

• We spent New Year's weekend in Myrtle Beach with my brother and his girlfriend. We had a pretty nice, low-key time, which is my idea of a New Year's Eve. I'm not all about paying a crapload of money to stand in a crowded bar. I'd rather stay in, drink beer and play video games. We drank all day, played XBox and watched the ball drop. Definitely my idea of a good time. Am I getting old?
  
• We're pretty sure we have some kind of critter living in our ceiling. There have been numerous times that both Steve and I have heard little scratch marks and clawing in various parts of the apartment. And now when we turn on the heat, insulation falls out of the vents, as if something had been chewing at it. There are also two wet spots forming on the ceiling and a hole in the dining room ceiling. A tiny hole, nonetheless, but it's still a hole. Someone is supposed to be coming tomorrow to check it all out and I'm afraid I'm going to come home to half of my ceiling missing.
  
• In lieu of someone coming tomorrow, I finally took the Christmas decorations down. Our tree was right under one of the spots so I had to give the guy room to work. It was kind of bittersweet. On one hand, I was anxious for the holidays to be over and on the other, I was sad to see them go. The place looks so bare now. And I had to find a place for all the Christmas stuff, which kind of stunk because I'm running out of room as it is. In our family, all the presents stay under the tree until it comes down so our bounty has been sitting there with a place of it's own, at least temporarily. Now I have to find permanent spots. I could say I need a house, but that just means more space to put more crap.
  
• Now that the holidays are over, it's time to examine the debt I put myself into. I get hives just thinking about it.
  
• I am embarrassed to say that I'm a freaking packrat. And one of the resolutions in the back of my mind is to be more organized and get rid of crap. Tonight, I went through tons of paperwork that I had collected since I was young. Things I had saved that I wanted for "future reference". I resolved that if I could scan them into digital forms, it would be okay to throw away the paper copies. And do you know what I found ya'll? Old stories, notes, lists, poems, drawings. I even found blank pictures from coloring books that I had traced because I didn't want to get rid of them. I used to do that all the time - I wouldn't color in the books until I made copies of the pictures. I didn't want to use them up. I've been like that with a lot of things. I wouldn't use my favorite pens because then they would be gone. I'm still like that sometimes. Maybe I need to make some resolution about that. You know, like not be a freak.
  
• I've got tons of doctor's appointments to make for myself. It's that time of year I guess. And it stinks because it seems everytime I've been to the doctor for things lately, I've ended up getting billed because insurnace didn't cover it all, even though they said it was being billed as medical. But we just switched insurance at work so maybe I'll be able to get myself all taken care of without fighting tooth and nail with the insurance company.
  
• My car got another boo-boo. Half my fault and half the fault of the dude who decided to park in a no parking zone right behind my car. No major deal - I'll eventually need a new tailight but it's only a crack for now. And with everything else going on, I can live with a crack for awhile.
  

That's all I got for now. Not very interesting but it just goes to show everything that's been happening lately. Maybe I'll resolve to take just one day at a time. Because if I don't do that, I'm going to drive myself insane.