year-end resolutions
I love New Year's. It's probably one of my favorite holidays, right up there with my birthday.
I don't go out and party -- I don't even consume alcohol, and my best friends live far from the Berkshires. Plus, I usually have to work at night on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. But I love the whole clean-slate feeling of a brand-new year. And I love making resolutions.
My TV-related promises for 2007:
* I shall go through the enormous stack of formerly blank videocassettes collecting dust in my living room (and bedroom, and dining room, and study), classifying and labeling them and putting them in chronological order.
* I shall work out more while watching telly. I do this sometimes, especially in the morning, if I want to keep watching something but need to move for fear of my arms and legs falling off. But not as often as I should.
* I shall watch the news in the morning on my weekends. See, I'm exposed to so much news when I'm here at The Eagle that I don't watch it at home. The most I usually get is SNL's "Weekend Update," or maybe a few minutes of Capital News 9 while I'm waiting for "Weather on the 9s."
I have lots of other resolutions on tap, things like meditating and trying a yoga class and actually losing the 20 extra pounds I'm carrying around -- you know, same as every other year -- but they're not directly television-related, so I won't go into those.
And yeah, I'm early; New Year's isn't for another couple weeks. But is it ever really too early for life changes?