First post of 2009

So the Christmas period is effectively at an end now. Christmas and New Year are both behind us and January 2009 is staring us in the face. Firstly I would like to say, I hope everyone had a great Christmas time and enjoyed themselves doing whatever it was they did. I myself had a pretty mediocre Christmas day. To me the feeling of Christmas just wasn’t there this year. Maybe it is because I had spent the last few months away from home and hadn’t really been near anything vaguely Christmassy until the days before the big day. Whatever the reason behind my slightly less that enthusiastic festive cheer it was great to be able to spend time with my family and my amazing girlfriend Becki, who I had been apart from for far too long. So it’s about this time of year people start making their New Years resolution, I’ve heard some pretty good ones in my time but I myself have never really bothered with making one. Maybe I should this year. Maybe I should be more organised? Or control my money better? Or maybe I should work harder (infact as I write this I am putting off working). I’m sure something will come to me in the next few days. In the mean time I leave you with some lyrics from a very good band I happen to like called The Lawrence Arms (see below)

I hope where ever you are, what ever you believe (in the ways of Christmas and all that) you enjoyed your period of festivity and I wish you a very happy 2009.

Peace, love and respect.
Always.

Tom RDD



(The Lawrence Arms – 100 resolutions)


Where have I been all your life?
Sitting on fences-a novocaine for all the senses.
Another year will pass us by.
Making sense of nothing, in defense of something.
I laughed too late and dug myself into a grave.
This year I'll try not to think too much.
This year I'll try to stand up for myself.
This year I'll live like I've never lived before,
This is my year for sure.
Another stupid clumsy story.
More accidental aspirations.
Another explosion of silence.
I think I'm going deaf, or maybe I'm just hearing less.
This year I'll try to only listen to myself.
This year I'll try not to think too much.
This year I'll try to stand up for myself.
This year I'll live like I've never lived before,
This is my year for sure.
I wonder where you'll be bringing in the New Year.
As midnight clocks are singing,
Good chance I'll be slobbering somewhere.
Probably pass out, wasted, and sleeping until the smoke clears.
Vague memories of midnight flash in tune to morning sunlight.
Wake up knowing you'll never be there.
I've got 100 resolutions, but I've got no solutions.
I've got one song I write 100 times.
And only a dozen or so rhymes.
This year I'll try not to drink so much.
This year I'll try to stand up straight.
This year let's live liked we've never lived before,
This is our year for sure.