Happy 2009!<\/b>
\nMy grandmother always said to take care of what you do on New Year’s Day because you’d end up doing it every day of the next year. My mom told me this morning that my grandmother therefore avoided doing laundry on New Year’s. Of course, if doing laundry were as easy for her as it is for me with all my modern conveniences, then I’m sure that it wouldn’t have been on her list of things to avoid doing. That woman was no shirker.<\/p>\n
On this first day of 2009, I If I have to do those things every day of the coming year, well, that’d be fine with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy 2009! My grandmother always said to take care of what you do on New Year’s Day because you’d end up doing it every day of the next year. My mom told me this morning that my grandmother therefore avoided … Continue reading
\nread
\ncooked some new recipes
\nshopped for groceries
\nsmiled a lot
\ndid laundry
\nand learned to play the bass, a little<\/a><\/p>\n