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Resolving to be Resolute in 2010
2010 is just days away and it’s that time. The time to try and come up with something or anything that will help me be a better person over the next 365 days or so. The time to ask myself if I do indeed want to simply be the same as I was this year or do I want to take a flying leap into the unknown?
I think this year calls for a flying leap. The years are growing on me and within the next two years I’ll be dangerously close to turning thirty years old. As thirty is a stones throw from forty I figure I should do everything I can to be the man I want to be this year. It’s an effort to look at my future through a very long lens.
As I grow older I see the benefits of changing habits and life choices. As a stroke survivor this line of thinking is magnified thousandfold. With the risk of a second brain malfunction hanging over me in the wings I’ve got to take the reins on the horse of life and make it my own. The time is now. It all starts here. And I can do it.
It all starts here
The time is now. Such words are often said every year around this time. Each of us decides if we’ll take up the resolutions that we fail at just about three days into the New Year. I used to be a guy that made half hearted resolutions that I didn’t really follow and at the end of those years was filled with mild regret at having not made any progress on some really pressing matters. I would quietly bury the guilt and move on.
This year I’ve got a few things on my plate that I didn’t have in previous incarnations of this tradition. I had a stroke last April. I’ve had a few other health concerns that have been directly tied to my unhealthy habits and current state of the once shining temple of a body I inhabit. On top of this I’m back into the dating world for better or worse and I’m consciously realizing I want to look better than the rotund tumbler that I currently resemble. The straw that broke the fat camel’s back is the impending nuptials in which my brother will be marrying his fiancé in 2011 on the 1st of January.
I don’t know about you, but weddings are one of those things you really want to look your best. Due to the fact that there will be numerous people from my past and present there (including family), I’ve want to be a sharp dressed man. And as you well know from ZZ Top, every girl is crazy for one. Tubby with several spare tires doesn’t really a rock song about hot guys make. Just saying.
Nearing The End
Welp, it’s almost over. 2009 is on it’s last legs and the approach of 2010 is upon us. I’m probably more excited for the new year than I should be but it’s the metaphorical possibilities that exist within the idea of a “new year”. A new start, a fresh year to build a new future on and the chance to take life by the horns finally. What’s fascinating to me is that it’s nothing more than another day on the calender. In our humanity we’ve created the ideas of “new years” and all the revelry that comes along with it. I don’t expect any of that to change and we’re all pretty much caught up in this cycle that is pushing us towards the new year with much haste.
The part about the end of the year I do enjoy is looking back and looking forward. Taking stock of the last year or so and figuring out what I’ve accomplished in the entirety of my life so far and then deciding what I need to do this year to get closer to completing my life vision. I’m pretty sure that’s the first time I’ve ever typed the words, “life vision”.
New Years Resolutions Part 3
Well, if you thought this whole navel gazing phenom was done and over with as soon as the new year got into gear, allow me to prove you wrong. You see I’m not a guy to sit down for one day and plan out a whole list of New Years resolutions that I haven’t really thought out, processed and simmered on. I like t0 plan with intention. At least I’m going to try this year to do just that.
Good luck to me on that. I’ll be talking about it over the next here and on my video blog.
So, number 3. I’ve talked a little about my radio show that I used to do nearly every day on blogtalkradio.com in partnership with several hosts. We would talk about Religion, Politics and Entertainment at length. Jokes, serious conversation and even some changed minds occurred. Shocking, I know. In a time where people seem stuck in their ways and unable to see past their little box, it was a bastion of wisdom and logic.
New Years Resolutions Part 2
In my first resolutions post I talked about my weight. It’s 18 days into the New Year and I can say that without a doubt I’m absolutely no closer to negating the negative aspect of my girth-ness and the affect it has on me. Mind you, it’s only been under twenty days. The incoming President is usually judged on the first 100 days. I’m free and clear for another 70!
Kidding aside, I’ve got some work to do. Which comes to my second Resolution. One of my goals for 2009 is to live. You know the whole, “I don’t wanna die. I wanna live!” statement that is present in many apocalyptic movies of past and present. There is of course a certain scene in “Serenity” where the promise of horizontal relations gives someone the gumption to fight on intent on winning so that they can indeed, “live”.
Farewell to 2008
Well, this is it. The moment where we all count down to the end of one long stretch of 365 days. I know it’s been a harried year on the international stage with diplomacy and war. The markets from Argentina to Zimbabwe have taken a pounding. Here in the good ole’ United States of America we’ve been in a recession for pretty much the entire year. Money isn’t growing on trees like it used to and everyone is facing uncertain times.
Yes, 2008 was probably not the best year we as a nation have had. Never mind what ugly shape the world is in right now.
On a personal level 2008 has been equally as rocky. Back in April I had a minor stroke that put me in the hospital for six days. Every since that day I’ve been living my life in terms of black and white. Some days are good, some days are bad. My left side acts up every so often. My leg especially enjoys slowing me down at times. I’ve lost some confidence when it comes to speaking in social situations. That once gregarious unstoppable force that was Aaron DeLay has slowed some. I take two pills a day and haven’t found the groove and rhythm that I had hoped would be evident by this time in my life.
New Years Resolutions – Part 1
The New Year is rolling towards us at an inescapable speed and if we’re not careful any kind of resolution making is going to be lost in the midst of the revelry and after Christmas sales. Well, I for one refuse to let the Holiday Slump slow me down. I don’t remember what my resolutions were last year. There’s a video on my YouTube account but I’m afraid if I watch it I’ll get depressed, down a bottle of Jack and end up on the streets of Denver in a pink nightgown from my female roommates singing terrible renditions of “Let It Snow”.
So I decided to start over. Fresh and with a open outlook at 2009. It’s the start of a new year, of a new start and more importantly new chances to not make a train wreck out of life. This resolutions will run several parts over the next few days. Feel free to comment as well.
My first resolution is to stop being known as “tubby” around the office. You know it’s bad when the employees call you by the other fat guy’s name. It’s funny the first few times and we all chuckle about it. Then after a few days it starts to grate on your nerves, snapping them like guitar strings. Eventually that last nerve remains and you realize that yes indeed Virginia, you’re a fat man.
Merry Christmas Everyone!
This Christmas, enjoy the time with Family, Friends and all those around you. Smile, laugh and have those moments where you simply treasure the time spent with them. To my parents in Montana where my brother is, to my aunt and uncle and even my amazing cousins from Great Falls, Montana and to all the DeLays’ and Dahls’ from Washington to Florida…MERRY CHRISTMAS!
I’ll miss spending time with you this week, but I’ll be remembering the moments of times past when we were all together celebrating the joy of our family.
To whoever reads this through Facebook, Twitter and whatever…MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Christmas Thoughts and Memories
The month of December nears the middle as the cold snap has, well snapped in the great city of Denver. The latest reading is nearly 8 degrees below zero with a wonderful wind chill dipping nearly thirty degrees below the big fat zero on the Fahrenheit scale.
Translated, it is unspeakably cold here in the Mile High City. Since Winter came in late this year (halfway through November? Really? Old Man Winter get stuck on the toilet?) it’s been very nice and warm on most days. Sunshine, never really below 20 degrees at night.
I figure we’re bearing the brunt of said cranky Old Man this time around. This is not to say Denver is the coldest or even close. 40 degrees below zero with a unthinkable windchill in Montana is cold. Been there, got the t shirt and chattered my teeth down to the nubs. It’ll bounce back up within the week or Denver being what it is, it’ll be 70 on Tuesday.
Thanksgiving
Each November we as Americans’ gather together to give thanks. To remember and to celebrate.
This Thanksgiving I’m spending time with my folks up in Montana. It’s been a great time and I could tell you all about it…but I’m not really up for it. Instead, I’d like to post some clips of the men and women of Armed Forces the world over having fun, smiling and just having a great time.
It is because of these men and women that we have what we have to be thankful for today…and tomorrow. As you sit down to feast and laugh and take time away from the ruckus of the world…take some time to be thankful for the amazing people who have decided to serve our country elsewhere in the world.
We are forever in their debt.
Happy Thanksgiving to one and all…here, there and wherever you may be.
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- Well, @mistymontano it appears a Tuesday storm is in store. Did Mother Earth go off her meds again?
- @ColoradoKila THE EYES THE EYYYYEESS!
- @johnincolorado You made a funny! #anditwashiliariouslyawesomegojohngo
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