Wednesday, December 31, 2014

good bye 2014

it's the last day of 2014 and time to look forward to 2015. i haven't quite nailed down my new year's resolution but i'll come up with one for sure. maybe exercise a bit more and cut down on candy...... you know, the stuff that lasts a week or two.

2015 will be a year of transition for your's truly. i just put in what may well be my last day at the cracker factory. i'll still be on the payroll for several months and have let it be known that i'd be happy to come in and work but my immediate boss basically to me to fuck off. when i was a young man i dreamed of this day, retire and party every night like it's 1999. but a funny thing happened in the intervening 35 years, i got old! around about 50 the old body started telling that warranty was over and if i continued on with my merry ways, there would be huge repair bills and maybe even a one way ticket to the here after. so it goes.

like most people i have a goal in retirement. no, i'm not going to travel, educate myself, become a better person, make amends etc. my goal is find a really cool pitbull at a shelter and begin another long beautiful friendship.

so here's to better days! 2015 will be an excellent year if we give it a chance and choose to ignore all the bullshit from the eternally pessimistic fearmongers.

l'chaim!

i love you sons of bitches!

18 comments:

Doc Teri said...

I have chosen to ignore ALL bullshit this year. Good resolution. Happy New Year, Pilgrim.

billy pilgrim said...

happy new year doc, Illegitimi non carborundum.

if you ignore ALL the bullshit, there's not a helluva lot left.

Doc Teri said...

There's always Latin

BBC said...

Good horn blower, that is as close as I'll get to a blow job this year.

I think after I move to Texas I'll get a healer. The grumpy old bastard cat can go back next door to live.

"There's always Latin."

With a million words in our piece of shit English why would you need Latin?

Dixie@dcrelief said...

Pretty sure I was watching Andre' Rieu play Auld Lang Syne the other day.

New pit bull - new relationship - sounds nice. Cannot wait to see the winner of your heart!

Unfortunately Latin is Greek to me.

Mr. Shife said...

Happy New Year, BP! I hope 2015 treats you well.

Gorilla Bananas said...

Putting your feet up has got to better than taking shit from your boss at the factory. I hope you'll be growing some big tomatoes as well as raising a new canine!

peppylady (Dora) said...

I tried to stop being involved with the new goals for up coming year.

Good luck finding the right canine buddy.

Coffee is on

texlahoma said...

Happy New Year!

Days like this remind me of the theory that everything happened all at once and the Earth's gravitational force...ah something about the space-time continuum...too many dead brain cells...Happy New Year!

billy pilgrim said...

dixie - i'll watch andre play anything. he's the best showman on the planet in my uninformed opinion.

mr shife - 2015 may be a watershed year for me.

gb - putting my feet up is nice but al swearengen says there will always be pain; stand it like a man and give a little back. who am i to argue with big al.

dora - coffee sounds like a good idea. i got a few exotic blends for xmas.

tex - happy new year to you and bob.

i'm unstuck in time so i've lived this moment countless times. i guess the trick is to relive the good moments as many times as possible and relive the sad times as few times as possible.

peppylady (Dora) said...

Billy our son and wife gave my husband and I some coffee called "Tom Sawyer Country Coffee"..."African Sunrise"

thimscool said...

Good riddance for bad rubbish. 2015 has got to be better.

BBC said...

At social hour yesterday we started the year off with clam chowder and roast beef sandwiches.

A free afternoon meal is a nice thing, yes?

billy pilgrim said...

dora - african sunrise.... would that be a dark roast?

thims - other than ruby leaving me, 2014 was a pretty good year. but of course 2015 will be better.

king - why would you move to texas when you free soup and sandwiches in the great pacific northwest?

BBC said...

Cuz the free soup and sandwiches in Texas won't have so fucking much rain on them. :-)

Dixie@dcrelief said...

Hi Billy. You thinking about a brand new pup or a rescue dog? Then again, there are puppies to be saved too. I'll check later - enjoy the remainder of the weekend! Salute ~

BBC said...

Holy shit, the floods are coming, you got a boat?

BBC said...

In "Dead like Me" a grim reaper has a pit bull. hahahahaha