HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011!

i just heard the pop, of a firework, pretty near to me.

thats the OFFICIAL notification to us, that the new year has entered in..

and my dog SHADOW..is having a fit.

my other dog, CARLEY is scared and laying behind me here in the PC room, on the floor...shes never liked anything that makes a "BOOM" or "POP" sound. and she gets restless...paces the floor all over the place, looking for a place to go to hide..and shes a large dog.

pretty sure she was abused with some pops, and bangs as a pup, and it has carried through her entire life. we always have to prepare for her nervousness, during any holiday that issues in loud sounds like that.

so, its 2011.

it was just 2010.

its hard for me to believe that it has been a decade and a year since the infamous MIDNIGHT POSSIBLE CRASH that was to consume the world..in 2000 (the NEW mellinium) all the orld was abuzz with the knowledge that if the PC industry didnt figure out how to get the PCs to recognize the new year (2000) the world would come to a crashing halt. what did we, the average human know? we didnt know that the "cure" had already been developed, the media still pushed the old information out to us.

i can remember that night very well... there were several things that happened that night...

one, i realized at exactly midnight on the morning of 2000...the world DIDNT come to a crashing halt...the TV was on, the clock was still running, and we still had electricity in my moms apartment, where i was with my son, celebrating this NEW Mellinium as it ushered its way into our lives...

the other...and for some reason even tho the new yearwas landmark, i can never remember the one thing that made it a horrible new year... my husband had an affair.... it would be later that month (on January 20th) hed walk away from my son and mysefl, and never look back...

the new year had given me a kick in the stomach.

but it also gave me a new lease on life...and i struggled to hold onto it.... but i managed, over time, to make the difficult life..work for me.

i dont face those same events this year... ive walked completely away from that...and made my way to the shore...to be kissed by the sun, and held by the breeze of a warm sun... lfe dealt me a hard hand, but i payed it, and won.

that was 11 years ago..hard to believe.

and this am as i usher in a NEW YEAR (2011)im reminiscent of that time, that moment, that struggle.

the fireworks have stopped. nearly 20 minutes later. im sure carley is happy about that. Shadow as well. she can settle down and not bark about the noise.!

this is the year im going to make a change..FOR ME!!! its MY time! im gonna make every moment count!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

MICHELLE