Resolutions

Well, it isn't even the New Year and I've already decided to ditch one of my resolutions.  I decided to go easy this year and my two resolutions were to A) be on top of people's birthdays and B) call my brother's family at least weekly and on holidays.

Have managed to annoy Matt already, though am not sure how (Matt, if you read this, I'm sorry for whatever I did wrong).  In fact, I was calling him Old Year's Day eve - I didn't realize that was his anniversary (in my defense, mom is sending me the list of important dates via snail mail - and it isn't 2010 yet).  Happy I'd lucked out (though the sitter sounded really worried when she finally answered the phone - I was calling every 1/2 hour because I know better than to just leave a message.  Then she sounded scared when I said I was Matt's sister . . .makes me wonder what she has been told...), when called back, I wished them a happy anniversary and verified that he had bought Vicky a suitable present.   (Ask the Nigerian taxi driver - this is my responsibility.)  Yeah.  He wasn't happy to hear from me.  Keep in mind I'd taken two Advil pm (can you say loopy?) and could still tell he wasn't happy.

Then, knowing Matt would be busy tonight, I left a "Happy Old Year's Night" message on his cell phone.  He called me back and was quite snide.  Apparently, I suck at this spontaneous, friendly call-thing.  So, am ditching that resolution.  Am still planning on being on top of the 2010 dates - but my apologies to anyone who has an important day in January.  Given the mail, my new (and only) resolution for 2010 is to be on top of birthdays from February through December.  Will call my brother on major holidays (talk to you at Easter, Matt!) and family birthdays.

2010 hasn't even started yet and I'm failing my resolutions.  Can't decide if the test run was good because I can adjust the resolutions in the next 41 minutes or bad, because the calendar hasn't turned and I've already failed.