How the Grinch Stole New Years

The clock is ticking – less then 30 hours left to this year and I still was not decided on a New Years’ Resolution (and I’ve been getting a little pressure on the subject – something about giving up meaningless sex? – surely you jest!) So anyway, here I sit on New Years’ Eve Eve doing some year-end account analysis – reworking my budget (for the umpteenth time!), paying bills, and reconciling my accounts. This is always a sobering process for me (which is why I have to drink while I’m doing it). I don’t understand why my budget calculations work on paper, but yet I’m always coming up short in my accounts, having to scramble to move money around. It’s sorta’ like when you’re a kid and you don’t want to eat your peas, so you spread them around your plate thinking it will fool your mother. That’s how I generally handle my finances – I just spread the little bits of green around and hope that it will fool someone (like me) into thinking I actually have more money then I do.

So, here it is – nothing as titillating as meaningless sex, I’m afraid – my 2006 New Years’ Resolution is: To Be More Fiscally Responsible (subtitled: Stop spending money you don’t have, dummy!). Alas – so much for my last blog, teasing of “better wines” in 2006. Well, at least this makes me more appreciative of the $40 bottle of French Champagne I just bought to ring out 2005. Thank god meaningless sex is free!

Happy New Year to all (just don't expect a gift -- I'm on a budget now, ya' know)!