Happy 2010!

I wonder if it is tormenting people to say "happy new year" all the time if there are bad things going on in their lives. I don't know... at least it makes more sense to me than "happy holidays" and "Merry Christmas." At least it is an expression that could be saying, "have a better year this year." Have hope for the future, and since none of us know what is going to happen in the future, why not?

I'm busy making those usual, yearly, soon-to-fail resolutions, and will continue to be throughout the year. I should pretty much be smart enough by now to give up on the idea of ever being organized. What does that even mean, anyway? I'm all for increasing simplicity, but I'm also, always, for increasing complication. I guess the more complication I take on, the more simplicity I also have to take on to keep the complication from becoming overwhelming.

I started this journal to try to write something frequently, in order to make up for the lack of letter writing, emailing, phone calls, and other communication I have a lack of. I guess I'll see if I can put this to use this year.

Happy new year!