Happy New Year!
As we all know, this is the time of the year when everyone thinks/decides/promises about making changes in their lifestyle; smokers swear that they will stop this nasty and expensive habit; and the less active swear that they will begin exercising.
Since I do not allow smoking in my house and the place I work does not allow any smoking on its property, including the parking lot, I am very rarely exposed to someone who is smoking in my presence. What I am exposed to are those hundreds of cigarette buts that line the drive thru of my local DD. I know there are a lot of things to worry about in this world and I should focus on them but what is with smokers who throw out their burning cigarette out their car window? Sometimes I think it is a silent protest against the rest of us for treating them like social outcasts.
And if you are considering joining a health club or the Y, when you join, please do not keep driving around the place until you find a parking spot next to the door; or even worse, park in an illegal lane so that you do not have to walk an extra 10 yards. This type of behavior will always remain a mystery to me.
So if you are trying to quit smoking, good luck and if you want to get healthy, walk that extra 10 yards. And if you are a real contrarian (i.e. P.C.), you may want to take up smoking and stop exercising. 
On behalf of the LiL family, we wish you a happy, prosperous and healthy new year.
December 31st, 2007 at 4:24 pm
All the best to you, Mimi dearest. Made a resolution. No more Mr. Nice Guy.
December 31st, 2007 at 5:12 pm
PC, a resolution is in part to “change a behavior”… ;0)..Couldn’t resist!
December 31st, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Happy New Year!
Totally with you on the butts. I just shake my head when I’m stuck at a light on the VFW Highway and look into the median. You can count hundreds of butts on a Summer day. Very sad.
Even more annoying when the person in front of me on Route 3 flings one out their window.
December 31st, 2007 at 6:00 pm
the entire car ash tray dump at a Dunkin’ is best of all.
Happy 2008 and here’s to what promises to be an odd political year locally, nationally and internationally. Kenya and Pakistan ‘blowing up’ and a handful of people in Iowa might decide who our next president is - democracy is a strange duck.
Lowell and surroundings struggle with homelessness and even more foreclosures while more businesses announce layoffs, more stores empty out downtown and there is next to no discussion of where the economy is heading. MCC continues to do more to help out the downtown than UML and the university remains absent from the discussions regarding Hamilton Canal and the downtown and makes a major decision to build its new research center on campus rather than in the Hamilton Canal district. For this, the local paper gives the new chancellor an A grade. I guess we do things on a curve these days!
Happy new year and my thanks to one and all who keep this site going for providing an important place to discuss the screwed uo world we live in with at least some sense of humor!!
January 1st, 2008 at 1:03 am
Happy New Year, folks…thanks to Mimi for another great blog year (and for all her help covering city politics and culture) and welcome back to KRS!