New Year Perspectives

I have debated on what to start the new year off with and as we all know, I focus on sports. So obviously I will have some sports in this blog. However I will start  it off with a more personal blog.


For those who know me some of these things will be common knowledge. I am fairly sure however, that most of the things I am going to talk about are things that most of you don't know about me. These are areas that I would like to improve on in 2016
Since I like lists, these are the top five things I would like to improve on in 2016


5: Procrastinating: It is true. I am the worlds worst at waiting til the last minute to getting something done. I think it all started when I was young because I remember my dad introducing me to the word procrastinate. It was not a good thing then and it surely is not a good thing now. It literally drives me insane. A perfect example is when the house I live in with my wife, two dogs, two cats, three (known) roaches and whatever else crawls in through open doors, gets a little dirty. The dishes may sit there for three or four or five days and nothing gets done with them, and it does make me a little mad. So finally after waiting that long, I figure my wife isn't going to do it, so its up to me. I HAVE TO UNLOAD THE DISHWASHER ON MY OWN. I PROCRASTINATE up to five days to get this done before I just do it. After that the dirty dishes are loaded that very day by my wife. I don't understand that logic at all, like its my job to empty the dishwasher. Some Saturdays the dishes sit there all day while my wife is just doing yard work for six hours. I just don't understand that. So  what I am saying is, I procrastinate with doing the dishes because my wife wont do it. Just because she works 55 hours a week and does yard work on the weekend doesn't mean I should have to unload the dishwasher. I work 32 hours (give or take) at my main job and then I get paid to watch sports for my other job. My life is tough.


4: Blog Topics: I have some people that give me crap about my blog topics all the time. Bertha Anne at work is a faithful reader of my blog and she constantly whines about my continuing blogs that mention one school in Macon. She insists that I cant write a blog without mentioning that one school. That is simply not true. It is also not true that I am on that schools payroll or that I continuously mention them in my blogs because some of their coaches favorite and retweet my blogs on twitter. However, I will write on things that stimulate my mind and motivate me to put things on paper and if they are the ones who do that , then I will continue to write on things that happen with them. I mean I see a lot of Derrick Evans in my blogs too, but no one is saying anything about that. So for 2016, I pledge to continue blogging about anything I feel like writing about.


3:Grammar: I realize that a lot of the stuff I write makes me look like I never went to school a day in my life. Well I did go to school but its me the better parts of 30 years ago since I have taken any kind of English class. When I am writing a blog, I am trying to get it on paper and get it out as quickly as I can and sometimes I don't go back and read it, so I send out a sloppy version. On the advice of my brother, who says if I want to be taken seriously as a writer, I must clean up my stories, I am going to give my best efforts to clean up my stories on here before I send them out. I wont strive for perfection but I will work for improvement.


2. I want to be a better person: I guess everyone does,but I have got to the point where sometimes I don't even want to be around anyone. I am 53 years old now and not getting any younger, but I need to work on keeping the people I love happy. My wife, who does not read my blog, has a birthday coming up in two weeks, and it is a big birthday. I mean its not like its number 49(which is just another birthday) its one that is like, monumental. I will not say how old she is for fear of repercussion, but I will say that its not number 49 and this one coming up rhymes with nifty. That's all I am saying. Anyways I have not a thing planned and its two weeks away. I know I must come through but seriously, nothing is popping into my head. I don't have a spare nest egg to use, so I need a cheap, special, plan. I am willing for assistance. Right now I am thinking of emptying the dishwasher on the first day instead of the fifth. Is that good enough ??


1-Worry- I am the worlds most outrageous worrier. I worry daily about stupid things. Today I am worried about my son getting his bills paid.  on time. If I have a story that is due in four days, I lose sleep over writing the story at least two days before it is due. I have my 4a.m worries (I have to use the bathroom at 4 a.m, but that's an entire new story) and I usually worry for a good hour until I fall back asleep. I get the worry gene from my mom, who was the worst. If I was supposed to be home at 11 pm when I was younger, I could count on her looking out the window by 10:30, wondering where I was. Thank god for cell phones and responsible kids. For 2016, I will attempt to calm down my worry, gene, but well you know I am worried about accomplishing that,


My mind is full of fresh ideas for the next two week but that will be all for now. Let me know if you like this.