Karin thanks her partner in crime

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New Years Day! A time for laundry lists of resolutions you won’t keep, two a day gym sessions, and declarations to weigh the same as your birth weight.

Over dinner in tiny town Vermont, I made the most absurd resolution list of 20 things I will definitely not keep including giving my life savings to charity, becoming fluent in Spanish and reading a dictionary-sized book a day. I also vowed to go to the gym 100 times a week, publish a dozen books and learn to play the clarinet. Why the clarinet? I don’t know. All of a sudden, in the heat of champagne and a geriatric Vermont jazz band, the instrument really appealed to me. 

With resolutions meant to be broken fresh on the brain, there is no one on earth with whom I have made more resolutions than my friend Mary-Alice. We were joined at the butt in college, and still are as much as adult life will allow. Over the years we have promised to do a laundry list of things so ridiculous that some of them have come true. We’ve gone on diets where we only ate condiments, diets where we drank cheap vodka, attempted to travel solely by boat, tried to sprint the Great Wall of China, etc, etc. Mary-Alice is amazing in so many ways, but one of my favorites is that she is a doer to the nth degree. If I suggested we try space travel, she would frolic over with some moon boots and oxygen. 

We traveled all over the world together and I hope 2010 allows us to do a little more exploring. We still need to test the limits of international waters and brush up on our international clog dancing act.

As I break almost every resolution I made tonight, I will think of Mary-Al and all the promises we made and broke together. Considering all the fun we had, they amount to nothing. Here’s to an antic-filled fun-loving 2010. 

This is "Kathryn Stacey" Mary-Alice's and my love child that we made on "Morph my face dot com." What a beauty!!
This is “Kathryn Stacey” Mary-Alice’s and my love child that we made on  a morph your mug site. What a beauty!!
Ah, college. Only the finest wines were consumed, as evidenced by this photo where we fell on the ground drunk, my hair became a mustache and my boob fell out.
Ah, college. Only the finest wines were consumed, as evidenced by this photo where we fell on the ground drunk, my hair became a mustache and my boob fell out.
A sort of recent photo where we are trying to become one with our oval heads. We decided that this is the best camera pose for people with spud-like heads. I can't wait to see the antics 2010 inspires for us.

A sort of recent photo where we are trying to become one with our oval heads. We decided that this is the best camera pose for people with spud-like noggins. I can't wait to see the antics 2010 inspires for us.

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One Response to “Karin thanks her partner in crime”

  1. Mary-Alice says:
    January 2, 2010 at 3:59 am

    OMG this is so lovely Poops!!! You are the bestest facebook girlfriend and butt-bejoined BFF that I could ever hope for. Here’s to Arabic lessons, making a feature-length film about the migration of herring, becoming prima ballerinas and a world-famous tap-dancing duo, and of course giving all of the proceeds to a scholarship fund to help fabulous girls go to Vassar. Happy New Year from snowy Berlin and I can’t wait to reunite and compare lists!!!
    Love,
    Peena

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