New clothes,check.

New shoes,check.

New attitude,check.

New opportunities,check.

New resolutions...?

It's tough when time travels faster than me. I just am not ready to bid '08 goodbye and embrace new endings and old beginnings. I mean come on I haven't even glanced at '08 and its gone? What happened to love for me?

Oh right, its non-existential.

It should be about time one sang 'Auld Lang Syne' and buried bitter hatchets,and that time should've been 23 hours ago. 

'09...doesn't roll as smoothly as '08 off the tongue does it. My brother said it once took him 6 months to get the year date right. My suspicions for this time-probably a niner. 

As I breathe in wide and deep, the realization follows through me and sinks to my soles. I know it is time. It just isn't humane to languish in the memories of '08 and neglect the open window that '09 presents. 23 hours of that has been, fortunately, enough. Thank goodness. 

So in my last '08 breath, I bid it adios, and once again, store the memorablilia into another one of the mental cabinets. Which has a capacity of 18 years now. 

I cheated. I can't really remember the first 4 yrs of my life, so that makes it 14, if you want the truth. Who knows what people want anymore when fear presides above Obama today.

I now present............2009!

yay.

well! Here we go, best foot forward, helmets on, headfirst.