Don't Let The Screen Door Hit You On Your Way Out.....

How many people woke up this morning thinking that thought? Going to bed on Monday night I felt just like a little kid on Christmas Eve, so excited that I couldn't sleep (O.K., so maybe it was that afternoon latte thankyouverymuch, Starbucks!)

I can't help hoping that, like Bob Newhart and Suzanne Pleshette, we're just going to wake up Tuesday morning and the last eight years will have been a dream- a really bad one at that.

Well, we're awake now, and as soon as we've had our coffee and pop-tarts it'll be time to get to work, which, I guess is why I've started this blog. I was going to just add a new chapter to the blog that Rachel and I started on our trip across country (see "A Long Strange Trip"), but then I decided that I had a real desire to start something entirely new, my monument to change, if you will. Well, there you have it.

I'm hoping that this will be a place to record the highs and lows of my "January 20, 2009 Resolutions". The title "A New Thread" is a play on words hopefully evoking a feeling of change and/or knitting, with maybe a little cooking, photography (mostly pictures of my knitting and cooking), and, ahem, exercise thrown in. It was only fitting that I launch my new blog on this most auspicious occasion, where everything looks doable.

I'll try to post often; feel free to email me with feedback (especially you young whippersnappers...if you have any helpful blogging techniques, let me know...) There may be a slight lag occasionally between posts; my Wii yoga instructor gets very testy when I don't show up at least every other day- (those Wii instructors can get very snarky.)

And so, in the words of Bob Newhart, "You really should wear more sweaters." Words to live by.

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