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31 December 2006

Critter New Year Resolutions

Before making any new promises, let's take another look at last year's resolutions ( with more current photos), shall we?

Henry promised:

I will quit eating catshit

I will try to be less cute, so that the other critters get equal attention

I won't try to climb on Sharon's head

Still does the first; judge for yourself on the second; minor improvement on the third.

Lucy vowed:

I will be less neurotic, so that I don't have to be so brave

I will remember that I am not the boss of the cats

I will keep playing tug-a-war, which I just discovered, with Henry

Actually, some progress on the first! Not so much on the other two, though.

Boo swore:

I will risk coming downstairs when we have company

I will stop playing with cat turds on the staircase

I will spend more time on the lap, and less on the shoulder

That second one is hopeless, I fear. But she is less shy!

Spike said:

I will, for another year, not bite anyone

I will be less of a bully

I will be kinder to my teddy bear

Wow. Spike has not bitten anyone! Spike has mellowed! (We'll just forget about teddy for the moment...)

Squirrel(s) sort of committed:

I will share more with my siblings and cousins

I will not chew the ottoman

I will stop teasing the neighborhood dogs

Ah, well. It was silly to think I had any influence over them, anyway. Although I have enjoyed watching a pair of them . . . um . . . act like it's spring, in the lilac tree, today.

And what about the human?

Well you should ask.

My New Year Resolution in January 2005 was to quit smoking:

I did great. For 1 1/2 years. Then, in the fall, I began smoking with a neighbor, and quickly got up to four cigarettes a day. Sometimes three, occasionally five.

Now it's been almost two weeks without a smoke; the neighbor is out of town. I'm going nuts. I swear my mind is muddier without nicotine.

Really.

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chocolate is a great substitute for everything! even nicotine!

happy new year! my next post will be from missoula, i'm on my way home tonight.

Posted by: catnapping | 31 December 2006 at 06:13 PM

Yeah, I think that happened to me too, but it passes, along with the twitchy behavior and tendancy to fear any activity which reminds one of a cigarette.

Posted by: cindy | 01 January 2007 at 12:24 PM

We three resolved not to make any resolutions last year, but then resolutions were thrust upon me when I was diagnosed with diabetes 2. There went the theory that chocolate was safer than nicotine.

The radio says that nicotine is safer than cigarettes if you "chew." The high school girls of Bozeman, lovely slim scrubbed brainy creatures, went in for plain old Copenhagen when pulling all-nighters (I don't know where they spat at the library), but the radio advises little "tea bags" of Finnish snoose. Sure, you'll get cancer of the gum, lip, esophagus, etc. but at least the guy sitting next to you won't.

Every time I see these critter photos I resolve to get a digital camera as soon as I have money! Maybe I should resolve to have money.

Prairie Mary

Posted by: Mary Scriver | 01 January 2007 at 03:25 PM

This one's going out to all of you well-intentioned criters:

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Posted by: Dr BLT | 03 January 2007 at 12:15 AM