Self-Reflections and Mere Images of our-Selves: A 2-fer, Onesie - vowing, resolving B4, after...

Auld Times Sake: As we usher one out, greet the new...as in year's end and kinfolks (who have left you a bit "Kranky")...Clear out, would ya....PLEASE?! As we take just a few minutes out of other-wise hectic daze, the ones we entertained at least thoughts of spending time, showing consideration -- 'related' concepts that seem oddly out of place when entertaining some distantly related people, that you have been taught are part of your obligations...at least once per year...

Left Alone: As in alone, with my thoughts, as in "all by my lone-sum" -- a place and time a lot of us deep thinkers long for, when all those "busy bodies" have crowded, after we "welcomed!" (note small W) into our homes...only a mere sampling of the types of things that occupy my mind, when I am left with-out "my own devices"...that over the years have bugged the "living daylights out of me" -- on, well into the night...that even at mid-day, if I think too loudly...responded with "you clearly have too much time on your hands" (curiously, when I wasn't even wearing a watch)...

Prior part planning: Before I unleash a joke, especially if it's of the variety that folks these days of lacking taste, refer to as "Bad, Dad!" I do what our parents taught us...before working the room I work on the "man in the mirror"...a form of self-simulation...

Parting Weighs: After our attorney told each of us, as part of our estate planning, before (our) years end...to let others know our last-ing (he said "final" but it just seem to final-ized) wishes known, we could even include our preference for what types and where each flower might be placed, in relation to...which I, my-self finally understand why funeral directors and their vast array or associates casually refer to it as "making arrangements"...

YOUR very Like-ness: While the rest of you, out there, who also may have a few minutes of des-pare time, as in being perplexed at your expanding mid-section, wonder why you were gifted with either an 'innie' or 'outie' as those present at your birth, buttoned you up...I, on the other hand, direct my-self to how I'm going to weave characters into the plot...as in contemplating my novel...

Crying "Uncle!" Which you are likely well beyond, if you've stuck it out this post this long without going postal your-self...We all have that generic "Uncle Harry" -- the one who, even when not welcome, shows up...if only to plague us with the same old "song and dance" in the form of selfie-facing humor..."Yeah, when I woke up in the gutter, I figured it was time to curb my intake...but then some brilliant mind finally came up with gutter guards, so now I can just keep it flowing..." 

Tender moment-US: "After all is said and done" -- or even well before-hand...I end my daze -- those of special occasions where the Uncle Harry and his ilk (short word but encompasses many) might show up -- the same way I began the party prepping...by surveying each room and "count them plates"

Leave well enough...alone. Enough said. You got any better ideas...I suggest you keep them to your-selfie. Sound add-vice, for the coming year...but...

Come, to think of it...isn't why you keep coming back here...on such occasions? 

WON more thing WE, around these parts keep promising Our-Selves...

NEXT: House Cleaning, Rules of Fan-Dumb.