It's January already?

As you may notice, I've revised the look of this blog. I was feeling a bit too crowded with the chunky colored shapes of the old template, so with my first (and greatly delayed post) of 2014, here's a brand new appearance as well.

(On that note, if anyone has any comments/criticisms/suggestions about the new appearance, let me know.)

Some basic thoughts on the relevant topic of new year's things:



I'd already entered the new year before I remembered that tradition of making resolutions to live this year differently. I mean, I'm sure I heard people discuss it, but it all rather passed by in a vague mist and I didn't really register that it was that time of year again.

All right, so if you made that resolution to be a better person this year, you have my wholehearted moral support.

But the whole thing with "new year, new you," has already been debunked by all sorts of statistics I won't bother to look up for you. You know, all of those "90 percent of New Year's resolutions are broken by the first two weeks, etc.," (a statistic I made up, but you probably know what I'm talking about).

If you want to become a better person, just start on the day that you realize what is preventing you from being a better person in the first place. You really don't need a new calendar to get you to do that.

Other thoughts:

This weather really needs to warm up soon...