Happy 2014!

I cannot freaking believe that we are 14 years into this century. Remember Y2K? It seems (almost) like yesterday. My partner, two Golden Retrievers and I were vacationing in Destin, Florida (note to dog owners: Destin is not dog friendly; they have beach hours for dogs and it's something like 2am - 4am... well, not that bad - but the hours never fit our schedule). Anyway. We were sitting on the beach late on the night of 12/31/1999 (remember partying like it's 1999?) watching the city lights of Fort Walton Beach. The Y2K drama had us wondering if the city would go dark at midnight. So we sat and sat and watched and watched. The lights stayed on. Was it that the computer geeks had fixed everything before midnight - or was it just a lot of hype? Guess we'll never know.

Little story from my partner's childhood. When she was in about fourth grade the teacher was talking about (gosh, I don't really know) but she mentioned that the children in the classroom would be alive for the turn of the century (tho the teacher would likely not). My sweetheart, the brilliant mathematician, did the arithmetic and discovered she would be 45yo at the turn of the century. Oh my. She was so disappointed. She knew that would be WAY too old to have any fun on that magical new year's eve. I'm sure that little girl would have been terribly disappointed the big girl spent the evening waiting for the lights to go out.

What kind of memories are you going to make this year? You get to decide.

If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.  -Martha Beck

Have a good one -