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My new year’s resolution: Thou shalt not believe everything thou thinks

January 9, 2016 by Mona Andrei 12 Comments

Forgive me father, for I have sinned. I started writing this post on the first day of this New Year. At the time, I had friends visiting yet felt compelled to obey my urge to write. And so I slipped away while said friends sat at my kitchen table drinking alcohol. In my friends’ defense, it was New Year’s Day and celebrating the brand new year seemed an appropriate theme for breakfast. Also, I may have pushed them into temptation with my counter display of all the alcohol I could find. Admittedly, I wanted to slip away unnoticed. Wine, beer, cheep champagne, mouthwash. I was without prejudice and so were my friends.

Confession over. Now onto the post …

Happy New Year, awesome readers!

With all this talk about New Year’s resolutions I thought I should share a little secret: They don’t work. And by “they”, I mean New Year’s resolutions.

Part of me wants to apologize because I KNOW how expensive gym memberships are. Another part of me wants to ask the person who invented New Year’s resolutions what they were selling that year. Since losing weight is one of the number one New Year’s resolutions of all time, I’m going to assume that they were selling a new diet.

That said, there is ONE thing I’d like to work on this year and that is my ability to control thoughts. Not everyone’s thoughts just my own.

Scenes of my ideal life in 2016 …

My ideal life_1

My ideal life_2

My ideal life_3

As you can see, I have great aspirations for this year … one thought at a time. Baby steps.

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Filed Under: Hamster Ramblings, Pretending to be a grown-up, That effin hamster

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  1. Rebecca Forstadt Olkowski says

    January 9, 2016 at 8:31 pm

    My brain is a hamster wheel and I would be overjoyed to control my own thoughts. Thanks for a fun post.

    Reply
    • Mona Andrei says

      January 19, 2016 at 4:33 pm

      Thank you for stopping in, Rebecca 🙂

      Reply
  2. Lesley Donaldson says

    January 10, 2016 at 4:33 pm

    Love the shopping in pyjamas!

    Reply
    • Mona Andrei says

      January 19, 2016 at 4:34 pm

      Lesley, I actually ran into another lady in her pyjamas at the grocery store recently. We looked at each other and laughed like old friends. We were strangers at the time 🙂

      Reply
  3. Eva L says

    January 10, 2016 at 10:10 pm

    Did not know you were writing my auto biography! I still check to make sure the closet door is closed before I sleep at night ….I have a firmly tucked in pillow between me and the edge of the bed to keep the creeping hands from under the bed from touching me AND I cover the evil green light from the alarm clock, clock radio and Bell box …cuz you never know.

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    • Mona Andrei says

      January 19, 2016 at 4:34 pm

      HA! I do these things too, Eva 🙂

      Reply
  4. Jacqueline says

    January 10, 2016 at 11:11 pm

    Love this! It is TRUE 99% of people are rather shy in groups. Especially groups of people they don’t know well. Remembering that helps me tremendously when I have to navigate new waters.

    Reply
    • Mona Andrei says

      January 19, 2016 at 4:35 pm

      Yup, me too, Jacqueline 🙂

      Reply
  5. Kyla @ Mommy's Weird says

    January 12, 2016 at 5:02 pm

    Who the fuck cares. BAHAHAHAHA

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    • Mona Andrei says

      January 19, 2016 at 4:35 pm

      It’s my new mantra, Kyla 🙂

      Reply
  6. Monique says

    January 13, 2016 at 3:23 pm

    I am glad you are thinking this way.

    Reply
    • Mona Andrei says

      January 19, 2016 at 4:35 pm

      Thanks, mom 🙂

      Reply

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