Happy New Year :)

Posted by: Sister Toldjah on December 31, 2008 at 6:28 pm

New Year's EveHard to believe it, but another year has come and gone, and it’s time to make some more new year’s resolutions that we know we’re all gonna break within a couple of weeks. Well, hopefully we won’t break all of them, anyway. If you’re like me, you’re gonna lay low and spend a quiet evening at home, maybe drinking a couple of glasses of champagne while watching ABC, waiting for the ball to drop in Times Square at midnight. I’ve been off work since last Thursday, and I’ve been on the go so much that it’s about time I took an evening off. So no night out for me.

It’s been a wild year this year, ya’ll, and 2009 promises to eclipse it. Let’s enjoy these last few hours of 2008, because next year’s going to be a hell of a bumpy ride and we’ll have to be on our game. We’ve got an economy in the tank, and a war on terror where victory depends on the next leader of the free world realizing that making a great speech alone essentially won’t change the dynamics of things, nor will implementing a solid liberal agenda that includes raising taxes and spending $$ like crazy, nor will sitting down and speaking unconditionally with a despot who wants to blow your strongest ally off the map.

Ok, enough of that. For now.

Jules Crittenden’s got a good mini-review of some of 2008’s biggest stories. MSNBC’s got photos of cities across the world that have already celebrated the birth of 2009.

And speaking of births, congrats to James Joyner and his wife, who just welcomed into the world today a beautiful baby girl by the name of Katharine Webb Joyner. God bless that little girl, and our country, too.

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  1. Jenn says:

    Have a fantastic New Year.

  2. Helen says:

    Happy New Year to all. We are there already. Big Ben has struck. <:-p

  3. Steve Skubinna says:

    I’m not into making NY resolutions, because they’re generally nothing but empty gestures towards what we think we ought to do but have no real committment towards finishing. The way I see it, if you need to do something, you take care of it when you need to do it, and January 1 isn’t some talisman of seriousness.

    As a lapsed Catholic I think Lenten sacrifices are much better, because most people can quit smoking or soda or watching soap opera or whatever for a 40 day period, and having done so it’s not too difficult to go all the way and quit for good afterwards.

    However, for ST’s sake I will make this earnest attempt: I hereby resolve that starting in 2009 I shall curb my insane jealousy of Lorica. After all, it isn’t his fault that ST favors him over other, much more worthy candidates.

  4. Lorica says:

    Happy New Year to you Dear!!! This is going to be an exciting year. I think that the last couple of years were mundane compared to what we are going to see in 2009. I have so little hope for this incoming adminstration. I figure America will survive tho. Heck if Carter couldn’t destroy this country with his incompetance, Barack won’t be able to either. I just Thank God most Presidents these days want a 2nd term. :))

    Grats on the new Baby Girl. I always figure that if I ever had a baby girl I would name her after our dear blog mistress. Sister Toldjah McMillan. =)) Man I crack myself up.

    As far as resolutions, I resolve to drink less, smoke fewer cigars, watch less football until August, and speak my mind less. I also resolve to be more upbeat about our new country, the USSA, United Socialist States of America. YAY!! Thank you Democrats, cuz this is working sooooo well in Europe, we should bring it here. =)) I do so crack myself up.

    And, Ahem, Mr Steve, there might be more worthy but few as loyal, patient, long suffering, or huggable. :D – Lorica

  5. Steve Skubinna says:

    Damn, that was a short lived resolution! (pounds head on table, breaks table, looks for some more durable furniture…)

  6. Mwalimu Daudi says:

    What are Sneery’s New Year’s Resolutions? I need my hero to tell me what to think…..

  7. Yax K'uk Mo' says:

    While I can still type straight, a Happy and Healthy New Year to all.

  8. Dana says:

    I hereby resolve to read Sister Toldjah, at least once a day! ;)

    See, that wasn’t hard.

  9. Amy Proctor says:

    Happy New Year, sister!

    From South Korea…

  10. forest hunter says:

    Amy: You’re a couple days late! I know….it’s never too late, huh.

    Steve: I can hook you up with a table guaranteed to be impervious to those skulling moments! :o

  11. Desert Rat says:

    Let us fervently hope that 2009 will not usher in a replay of the Carter Administration!

  12. Lorica says:

    =)) Steve =))

  13. NC Cop says:

    Amen to that Desert Rat!!

  14. Dana says:

    Well, Mr Rat and Mr Cop, if it does, at least remember that it was the Carter Administration which helped make Ronald Reagan president.

  15. NC Cop says:

    Good point Dana. That was something I was thinking myself. It took us 4 years of Jimmy “Hamas” Carter in order to get Ronald Reagan for 8 years. Will history repeat itself? Stay tuned.

  16. Amy Proctor says:

    forest hunter, agreed, better late than never. We’re 14 hours ahead of EST.