ahhhhhh ... the newness of it all!

New Year's definitely ranks up there with one of those "bittersweet" holidays in my book.  Bitter because the years are actually flying by (yes, all you youngn's out there...it does happen) and ONCE AGAIN, no solo trip to Paris to stroll from cafe to cafe ... but definitely SWEET because we all get to start out all over again.

My brain has a wonderful capacity to block out the past year (well at least the bummer parts) and pretend I am all shiny and new all over again and I have the opportunity to once again be perfect.  Ok, perfection might be pushing it since I got a ticket at 9:01 am today for failing to properly signal during a turn.  Here's the scoop - I did signal (the policeMAN) even acknowledged it ... but I did not signal for long enough - thus a $66 ticket on January 2nd!  Not my fault, though, or at least that is what I am claiming ... not my fault we live in a wee-small tourist town where the police have nothing better to do than harass poor defenseless mothers who are finally dropping off the youngest of her brood after 13 days of a kid & present filled existance.

OK, back to my striving for perfection ... if only in my own mind!