I'm a SUPERSTAR

Happy New Year's everyone...man, this picture (thank you Google images) is so great on so many levels. That lady in the brown sweater vest is really rockin' in the '06 in style isn't she? And who told Linda to wear black? Didn't she know that Bob (the guy trying to get Marie all boozed up with cheap bubbly) painted his apartment all black in what Tim (the jackass giving himself a hernia with the noise maker) likes to call the "St. Patrick's Day Misunderstanidng"? Linda, you blend right in with the walls babe, no one can see you trying to hurl confetti into the air.

God I love this time of year.

I had a good time too - although clearly not as much fun as Sweater vest lady did. My next doorneighbors hosted a small get together which was awesome because I could walk home in about .0007 seconds. We talked, laughed, counted down the new year, yelled Happy New Year out the window to the 3 cop cars that appeared outside at about 12:01 - Sunnyside's moto for '06 is "Let's Make '06 Murder free!" - then I went home. We actually played a fun game (funner than "There is no way in hell I'm playing charades") where we all wrote a resolution that we wanted to keep in the new year. Then we put the paper in hat and later in the night drew out a slip of paper. This NEW resolution was the one we are meant to actually keep, not the one we originally wrote down for ourselves. I picked "To be a superstar." Okay that's kind of cool if you think about it. I'd prefer Sandra Bullock style superstar and not Jessica Simpson style superstar. But the exercise got me thinking - what other resolutions should I work on for the new year. In a few days I'm going to be another year older - not necessarily more mature, but older, and maybe I should start taking this "New Year" stuff a little more seriously.

So here, in no particular order are...

GAYLE'S 2006 Resolutions

1. Take golf lessons once I pay off my student loan (should happen in July if I've made my calculations right.)

2. Write everyday. (It worked for me in '05, why mess with success?)

3. Get repairs done in my apartment that I've been putting off.

4. No new debt! Sorry Visa Mastercard, you'll have to find some other wallet to suck dry.

5. Smile at one stranger every day. Okay, replace word "smile" with "laugh at".

6. Submit a play to a festival in Denver, CO.

7. Submit for 3 auditions every week.

8. Finish writing my one person show.

9. Try not to punch, stab or throw things at people.

What?? Who put that in there??

Happy New Year everyone! Check back with me, I'll let you know how I do on these.