The List, With Chocolate on the Side...May the Force Be With You...
...As with each new year I sat down and created "the list". Resolutions to change bad habits and to create new good habits dominate my list. I sit and stare at the list, hoping to somehow scrunch up new energy and resolve to make the projects ahead of me become a reality. The curse of flat surfaces is everywhere with strong ju-ju mocking me. "I will not put up with this any longer!" I announced to the four winds. Pitching and sorting, I began a brutal triage of old papers, bits and pieces of buttons, pens, tacks, trinkets, etc. Feeling much like Indiana Jones searching for the Ark of the Covenant, I persevered digging through the piles of accumulated paraphernalia stacked on my kitchen table. "There's a table under here, I know it. After all, something with a flat surface has to be holding up all this stuff!" An hour later, I began to hyperventilate from the stress of all the decisions of sorting and pitching the stacked contents of the t