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Just because I’ve never kept a New Year’s resolution doesn’t mean I can’t continue to make them. In 2012, I resolve to:
- Develop a healthy late-night addiction, like novel-writing
- Now that I know how to receive a text, learn how to send one
- Become reacquainted with vegetables
- Attend Mexican wrestling matches more often
- Fire myself from my detective agency, so I can collect unemployment
- Buy a paella dish and learn how to make it
- Accept every writing assignment that comes my way
- Be first in line when Skrine Chops reopens
- Donate something besides matzo ball soup to the food pantry
- Write a history of Forest Park
- Play chess more often
- Pre-eat before going to restaurants to free up my mouth for drinking and talking
- Finally get the low-down on Forest Park’s haunted Victorian
- Find out if my late aunt’s hideous lamp might be a priceless antique
- Complete the first draft of a Haymarket play by May Day
- Read to my grandson – he just loves the Tribune business section
- Get some help for my out-of-control grocery-shopping habit
- Find my reading glasses
- Watch every Bulls game in its entirety, no matter how big their lead is
- Finally gain that elusive 10 pounds
- Quit at the top of my game by abandoning my career as a concert pianist
- Find a teaching job that only requires a GED
- Revive the internationally acclaimed Forest Park History Tour
- Always be there to help out my family and my editor
- Learn how to shower in the dark, or get bathroom light switch replaced
- Check with adult daughter, before discarding her “blankie.” It still has some soothing silky border left
- Break-in new arctic boots
- Hire someone else to teach the teenager to drive
- Take a real vacation, as opposed to a long weekend
- Add some swing to the Sabbath, by attending big band jazz on Sunday nights at FitzGerald’s
- Re-read my favorite book The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody
- Help residents with their history inquiries
- Shop and dine in Forest Park whenever possible, depending on the specials
- Learn to type with all 10 fingers, or take early retirement with carpal tunnel syndrome.