I LOVE…Fridays! and a Dear John letter

I LOVE…  that 2011 is finally coming to a close.  To celebrate the occasion, I’ve written a farewell letter.

Dear 2011,
It’s time for me to say goodbye, and you know what?  I’m not sad at all.  I’m actually glad you’re ending, and it isn’t just the usual end-of-the-year-anticipation I’m feeling (although I feel that as well).  The truth is, 2011, you’ve been hardly anything but depressing and boring, and there really isn’t much in the way of happy memories for us.  I will most likely look back upon our time together as  dreariest, most stressful year of my life.  Even if you hadn’t come directly after the best year of my life you would still be the worst year with practically no redeeming qualities.  You were full of angry and bitter feelings on my part, and I’m going to get revenge upon you by making 2012 the best year of my life.  I plan on making sweet, passionate love to the next 12 months by moving back to Rhode Island, getting a job, and eventually getting a place with my wonderful husband – our very first place together.  It’s going to be glorious!  Gone will be the days of sitting around with a lazy attitude 24 hours a day in a 9 x 15 room having nothing to do, being bored and playing my beloved video games so much that they’ve lost their sparkly appeal.  Of course I will still be lazy, that will likely never change, but I’ll have obligations that require me to not be so lazy every minute of every day.  I won’t feel like a waste of space, like I’m wasting away each day – at least that’s what I intend.  2012 is going to be the year when I make things happen while you, 2011, will rot in the back of my brain where I keep the trash I can’t physically erase but still avoid.
Good riddance,
me

PS  -  I’m taking all my awesome Christmas presents with me into my new relationship, and I’m leaving you with nothing.

I LOVE…  this portrait I drew in paint of my brother Robert (red), sister Alli (blue), and her dog Kokomo on Christmas day when we were talking via webcam.

Yes, I am fully aware that Kokomo looks like a sheep, but the portrait is otherwise entirely accurate.  I should have taken a screen shot of them as well so that the proper comparison could be made, but I didn’t think of it.  It was Christmas and I had other things on my mind.

I LOVE…  coffee.  Alas, once again I’m going to try and quit the coffee drinking.  I simply cannot have coffee without cream, but milk and cream make me sick.  This time we’ll see if I can actually stop drinking coffee.  At first there will be a surge in Coca-Cola consumption, I have no doubt, but hopefully I’ll be able to ween myself off of that as well at some point in the future.

I LOVE…  How I Met Your Mother.  The Destroyer and I have just discovered it (I know, we’re so behind the times) and we lovingly call it the Marshall and Lily show.  It’s our new before bedtime TV show.  I had to stop watching The Universe.  I call it Doomsday, because all it does is make me anxious before I fall asleep that the world is going to suddenly end in fiery painfulness.  Seriously, every other episode after season 1 is about how everything in space is against the planet Earth and blah-blah-blah-Armageddon-is-inevitable and YOURDAYSARENUMBERED.  It’s too much for me to contemplate before I go to sleep at night.

What do YOU love today?