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Well, Christmas is over. My neighbors have filled their trash cans to overflowing with used gift wrap and boxes awaiting early morning garbage pickup on Wednesday. The tinsel and lights are starting to come down, and everywhere, parents sigh with relief at being done with shopping, cooking, and eating. At least we have a year until the next big - oh wait, New Year's Eve is right around the corner! Will this mirth and merriment never end?

Granted, New Year's isn't the giant buy-buy-buy fest that Christmas and Hanukah have devolved into. Nonetheless, some of us face it with trepidation, recognizing New Year's for what it is: The number one holiday for self-loathing and guilt, lonliness and misery.

You know what I mean about the guilt and self loathing, aka - the resolutions.

New Year's Resolutions! We never keep them and we only make them to torture ourselves. This is the year I'll get the promotion, lose 10 pounds, find love, stop eating carbs, give to charity, save enough to travel to Europe. Maybe. But probably not. By the time you're in your 30's, you know, kind of, that these New Year's resolutions hardly ever pan out the way we plan. Or if they do, we tend to drop them too early to see any long lasting results. After all, how many exercise machines live in your basement gathering dust and unwashed laundry after a resolution of daily exercise? How many classic books sit on shelves uncracked and unread? How many pounds are gained back year after year after year? Let's face it, we all stink at keeping New Year's Resolutions.

Instead, why not just enjoy New Year's Day for what it is, a day off work, a day to sleep off that hangover, etc, and not endure that self-induced guilt. It's got to be healthier than bitter disappointment with yourself. Seriously!

Instead, have fun on New Year's Eve. I like to watch the ball drop in NYC myself after checking out the First Night activities around town. As a kid we lived near Pasadena and watched the Rose Bowl parade live. Now we watch it on TV from the East Coast. The parade makes for an awesome start for the New Year, and memories of interesting experiences add more to our lives than do guilt and promises unkept.

And please, put away those holiday decorations in your front yard. You'll have to put 'em back up, soon enough. Happy, healthy New Year to you all.

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