New Year Same People

Some people start off the new year with hope, looking forward to a year they hope and pray will be better then the previous year, I am not one of those people. You might wonder, 'Why, Wickket, why?' My answer, dear readers is simple, you have to be born like that, not a cynical realist like I was. Really, the only thrill New Year's Eve ever held for me was staying up past my bed time when I was a tot. Other then that, I can drink any time I want to, and I rarely ever want to drink, and I realize that a new year does not mean everything will change. Everything could change, but a new year has nothing to do with it, it has to do with the people that make the changes. Yes, something might happen this year to move our world leaders to sanity, but let's face it, that's highly unlikely. Even more unlikely, that guy that thinks he's hilarious (you know that guy, he thinks he's friggin' Eddie Izzard) will take a clue and shut up. Point being, human nature is not easily turned or swayed so why look to some new year with the blind hope of the ignorant unless you intend to do something about it yourself? Write that letter, or email your state or city official like you keep threatening to do. Let us all raise our voices in unison and cry out "No!" Let's cry out against the injustice, poverty, hypocrisy, and evil that has such a firm hold on our world. Let us all remind that evil that good will always be stronger when we are united. Let us not be blinded with ignorance or false hope putting faith in fate to make changes for our future while we sit back and do nothing but hope. If you want the world to change then lets change it, but if you just want to ask what I think 2007 will hold, or if I think it will be a better year then prepare yourself for a dose of reality because I'm not pulling any punches. Read the news, it's not any better for 2007 then it was for 2006, chalk full of people doing stupid and cruel things. As for this little black duck, I intend to find out why the recycling people in our city refuse to take our recycling, it's not like I did something to them. We want to help the earth too! (Actually they do this to everyone in town) Yet, they just scatter our recycling all over our yard, leaving us to pick it up and throw it away. No one on our street even bothers anymore, and that makes me a sad panda.
I'm still battling the dreaded bronchitis, but I'm winning so that's a plus. Still, being sick for so long and during the holidays has me really angry. Big surprise. New Year's was rung in with the Sig and I both ill and playing a video game. If that is a sign of things to come then I'm not sure what to think about the new year. Yesterday was the first time I even left the house over the three day break, the rest of my time was spent on our couch. But I couldn't take it anymore by the time the afternoon rolled around yesterday so we went out to watch Happy Feet, and do a little shopping. Happy Feet is a surprise, it is a all around wonderful movie. The characters are interesting, the music is fantastic, the story is touching, it is visually beautiful, and it has Robin Williams in it. What more could you ask for in a family flick? If you get the opportunity check it out. After the movie we went shopping at Bed, Bath, & Beyond one of my favorite places to shop. You have to love a store that you can buy both the sharpest and the softest thing in your house at! We bought a new set of silverware, and some new steak knives, then we had to get a new silverware rack, and of course a new banana hammock. We went in there to buy new silverware, but then we had to walk back through the store and check out. It never ceases to amaze me how that store can make me feel so good about spending far too much money. After the delayed BB&B experience we had to stop at Petsmart and pick up a new fish for the tank. We bought a little orange guy that will school with my Tiger Barb. All in all for being sick it was a pretty active day! Especially since we also decided to tear down Christmas, and do some serious house cleaning as well.
Tomorrow...I'm going to start trying to figure out what is going on with our recycling department.