A whole new decade stretches out before me. The last one was pretty interesting, and I suspect that this new one promises to be the same.
However, I am hoping that my current state of affairs is no indication as to how this next decade might go. I am now sitting at my desk at work, taking a well-earned break from the monotenous, ever-so-important work I do, with only one boot on and a compulsive temptation to unbutton my pants. It's not that stripping is part of my schtik here. Uh-uh. It's because I bashed the shit out of my foot a week ago from balancing on a very heavy, wet, slippery piece of porch furniture while trying to take the perfect picture of a rainbow. I don't know how things turned ugly, but one minute I was zooming my camera lense, and the next I was dragging my smashed foot out from under the tipped porch chair that weighed as much as a piano. I am now hobbling around the office in the only boots I can tolerate on my feet, and when I'm at my desk, the one boot comes off. As for the compulsive unbuttoning of pants - well, that is from a well-earned 10 pounds that I somehow packed on during holiday indulgences. To make matters worse, I gorged on chocolate macaroons last night to try staving off a PMS melt-down. It actually works, by the way. But I decided this morning that I either take the macaroons to work for everyone else to gorge on, or I will soon be buying a new wardrobe.
I would give you a "Best of 2009" reflection, but someone I know did that recently and it was just too hard a read. All I can say is that just when you think you've climbed high enough up a mountain to get the view you're looking for, you realize that there is still another crest to climb, with an even better view of things you've never seen before, but always wanted to see. That's where I'm at. Climbing. Seeing. Experiencing. And what a view.
