Rabbit rabbit

So it's 2006? What of it? I can't imagine much will be different from the years before - I mean, except for the fact that I'm done worrying about turning college applications in on time. That's done, and I suppose that was a big cloud over my head for about two years that's mostly dispelled. Not much I can do about it now: they're in. Submitted. Ta da, Happy New Years. A college education for little Nate.

I made the same wish that I've been making for years, silly old me. I don't really have any other wishes to make, do I? Last year I wished to be right-side-out again, and got my wish. This year... Nope, don't really know what to wish for but that old standby. Maybe to get out of here and begin a semi-new start. That will happen in August, however. A long time away from now.

As far as resolutions go, I don't make em because I don't keep em. No point in making a promise to yourself if you fully intend to break it. I could resolve to brush my teeth more. Lord knows my breath's bad enough. And maybe to help clean the kitchen, despite the fact that I cleaned the entire upstairs room for my brother's little college-friends getogether. Yeah, my family had a party. The parents had a "let's play card games and laugh in the face of shitty 2005 as it goes to whatever timeless hell old years go to," and my brother had a "let's play video games and watch the Chappelle Show party." The former had cheese and crackers, and the latter had young people and the Chappelle Show, and video games. There was much laughter.

Of course, the first words I said this year were "rabbit rabbit," those being the magic words to have a chance at having one's wish granted, for lack of other wish-granting-options. See, there are many chances to have your wish granted, the most well known being birthday cakes, shooting stars, wishbones, dandelions, and wells. I'm also acquainted with the eyelash-thumb wish, the say-perdiddle-and-put your-finger-to-your-nose when-you-see a-car-with-only-one-working-headlight wish, as well as the say-rabbit-rabbit-on-the-first-day-of-the-month-(and-year) wish. When a wish is offered to you also, it's a good idea to take it. Burning of wishes is a good idea, in a ritualistic celebration coinciding with a time of the year, such as Yule logs and New Years fires, much like last year. There is also rumored to be a wish involved with catching a leaf before it touches the ground, and not letting it touch the ground for a year. That wish didn't work for me, however. I may not have executed it properly, but I don't really have the patience to try again.

I may have fudged the wish up this year by not voicing it correctly. It usually needs to be either written down or said vocally, or at least clearly thought, although I have had a very focused image come true before. Take all those images that you associate with what you want, and focus your wish onto that - I like to think there's less of a chance for error and malicious bending of intent if you use images and emotions in that way.

Not that any of it actually works, but it's nice to pretend sometimes. Very nice indeed.

Anyway, Happy New Year. 2006, baby. Here's to hoping It's Not As Shitty as 2005, and The End of 2004. Nighty night.