Thoughts on a New Year
I know -it's one of the oldest cliches out there, this thing about getting into a morose and reflective mode on New Year's day. But I am a creature of habit (some of them really bad, bordering on the neurotic) and making resolutions has been part of the annual routine. Last year I made an extra effort to ensure that at least some, if not most, of my resolutions would get fulfilled. I made the list as the wallpaper of the PC at work and wrote them on the first pages of my planner - I never got through a day when I didn't get reminded of the things I swore I would do in 2015. Did it work? To some extent, yes. I did try to walk at least 10,000 steps a day and tried as much as possible NOT TO EAT MEAT, the operative word being "tried." But hey, the results of the my blood tests have been consistently good, so I guess I did get some headway in 2015 insofar as sticking to the resolutions. I haven't gotten around to doing the list for 2016. I need to thin