Forget Your Resolutions Day-An Ollie Holiday
Forget Your Resolutions Day – more aptly titled: Give Up On Everything Day
Remember all those plans you made last month (was it that long ago?) about losing weight and getting in shape? Remember how you forgot them? I bet you were hoping no one caught that but I did!
I bet you’ve been to the cake bench more often than you were at the weight bench. Haw! What’s a cake bench? About 120lbs! Fuzzy Heads (all my friends in the Meadow) find that very funny.
I know you gave up on all your resolutions by now. Me too. Instead of being upset that you didn’t keep all your resolutions, celebrate that you made an effort, no matter how small. So as not to feel so bad, here’s a list of the resolutions I had no intention of keeping:
- Eating less cake. Cupcakes don’t count.
- Eating less pizza. Sauce and cheese on bread doesn’t count.
- Eating less candy. Chocolate doesn’t count.
- Getting more exercise. Climbing up to the treehouse counts.
- Getting up earlier to get more stuff done. Getting up at 2am for a glass of water counts.
- Doing my homework early. Only because Star Trek is on later.
- Not playing with flammable things. Un-fueled engines don’t count.
- Not driving mama crazy with new inventions involving her best utensils. That fancy spatula/ice scraper doesn’t count.
- Telling better jokes. This article counts.
Resolutions are like little promises you make to yourself at the beginning of the year. If you think about it, we use the beginning of the year as a marker because it’s new. Really, if you couldn’t do all that stuff with the other 364 days of the year, why try and do them all on the first day?
It’s impossible!
On Forget Your Resolutions Day, Instead of feeling bad about it, do what I do. The one resolution I always easily keep is…
Spend more time in my comfy blankie. With cake.
About your authors
About your authors
Oliver Bug is an adventurer, detective, inventor and mischief-maker residing in Moonwater Meadow. He can often be found in his workshop putting out small unintentional fires.
Tom Serafini is Ollie’s official biographer and illustrator lives in Brooklyn, New York. He has an affinity for banana pudding and pizza with unconventional toppings.
His first illustrated picture book, Ollie Bug and the Icky Sticky Thing From Space, is going live on Kickstarter very soon. Click the link to sign up for more info.
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