Happy New Year ladies and gents! I know it's been a new year for about 4 days now, but Dave nor I have been able to update since. The new year brings about change whether it's a law, something personal, a mindset or one's surroundings. It is a chance to take what we've learned from the year before and apply it to this new year full of hope and unforeseen experiences. The Bagel shop where I work is prepared for business to be slow until the beginning of February because of resolutions dealing with weight loss. My boss gives everyone the benefit of the doubt, which is about 3-4 weeks of good legitimate weight loss attempts, then business should resume as usual. This might be a bit discouraging, but that's how it goes for a bunch of us.
Dave and I have been working on the Bounder for about two months now, on and off. The most recent times were during Christmas break we worked on it and on New year's eve we worked on it. Now, I have to be honest here, I'm tired of working on it. I want things to be done and not to have to pull staples out of the floor boards and watch Dave get aggravated at the staples, carpet, vinyl or at me. He hasn't been getting aggravated at me or those things very often, but any amount of aggravation is not fun for anyone. I might be tired of it, but I am not doing as much work as Dave. I am just impatient and tired of working on the floor and tired of floor related things. I want to move on already. So this attitude makes me impatient so that makes Dave aggravated and then no one is having fun doing anything! Especially after a 8 hour day of having your hands bleed from blisters and cleaning 23 years of poop from the toilet and toilet hole. It's just not glamorous. But we know that after all is said and done we will be proud of our new home and of each other for sticking it out. There will be accomplishment in this new year, whether we like it or not.
I think that's where some of us stop the resolutions and want for change. It might get too hard, or just plain aggravating. But at the end of the year when we look back and think of how things could be if we had stuck to exercise, not smoking, treating people a different way, drinking only water, keeping a clean house, deciding to be happier, reading the Bible everyday, only then is it when we realize that hard things are worth the effort.
I might be wishing and dreaming that the Bounder would magically fix itself up so Dave and I could just take it easy, but nothing would get done. No matter what, this is a project that will be seen through until the end.
We should keep our heads up and motivation high. You are the determining factor in how good of a year this will be.
