Dinnercraft helps bring your (and our) protracted adolescence to an end. Our authors cover topics ranging from cooking and eating, to home and garden, to crafting and DiY, and all the rest of the things you find yourself caring about these days.
The Interim
Christmas the day has come and gone but the season doesn’t end until the tree comes down. On New Year’s Day we will make resolutions; will eat the last of the leftover camembert and make a soup of other odds and ends. We will dismantle the tree and pack up the ornaments and lights for the winter, while not close to over, is at least beginning its long, slow wane into spring.
This week is a break from time for many lucky people. Children are free from school, and we are still traveling to and from home, between cities, across state lines and even over borders, continuing the visiting and merriment. We aren’t giddy with anticipation as we were one week ago and yet we aren’t experiencing post holiday despair.
We have shiny new things to stimulate us, cookies and cakes with an expiration date, certain objects to put away and other rituals that are to begin. It’s about to be 2010 and there is much in store for all of us here. We have just a few days left of laziness, of being a procrastinator, an overeater, an underachiever. On Friday we wake up molted and transformed, to bring about better versions of ourselves to bear upon the world.
What are you going to be?
Give us till Monday at least.
I shun making resolutions, because they’re too “inside the box” for me. I do, however, intend to brush off my iPod and get back to running when it isn’t so ghastly cold. My ass deserves it.
A resolution/goal I have in mind is to get a NY Public Library card within the month of January so I can take out books and not spend needless money on them (unless I love them). Another is to work out regularly more than twice a week, and another is to eat more vegetables.
The biggest one, though, is to maximize my little Nikon point-and-shoot camera’s abilities so I can finally justify getting a dSLR.