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Happy New Year, everybody. Spent a great deal of December dealing with back-to-back illnesses. Enough Vicks VapoRub on my chest to deflect a bullet, enough phlegm to bury the shooter. And you readers just got the prettier imagery from last month.

Got well enough to spend time with both my and Lynne's family, only to spend the New Year's weekend helping take care of Lynne and hoping she didn't get either of what I had. She's better today, thankfully.

Today, I went back at work after dealing residual crap that happened on the job the week before when I had to get back to work. It was my own fault the way things happened today, but it still reminded me of how wretched so much of this year was because of my own actions. I'm hoping that's the last of that for a while. I've been trying so hard to get better and move on, and I hate setbacks.

For the last month, I've been torn between mentally putting a big "X" over 2006 and trying to point out to myself lessons learned and count the blessings (both have been numerous). The first piece of news I received from the email last night only emphasized this.

Do I see years too much as things to get through and not appreciate? Probably. But I think 2005 and 2006 gave me a little help in that worldview. If I resolve anything, it will be to get rid of that habit and truly learn to move on in life, not just get by year-to-year.

But since I still have a little bit of residual hatred for last year, I'm posting the good news in a separate post, free of all this bullshit.