Time to sum up the year and bring on the New Year! 

Time to sum up the year and bring on the New Year!

I hope everyone had a great holiday! I had a great one. I must have been a good girl this year because Santa did not bring me any coal! And by all accounts, I was good. I spent it with loved ones and went to see more loved ones in Virginia after the holiday. Eventhough, I was deathly ill Christmas night. I must have caught that nasty stomach thing that is going around. And I still wasn't completely right for a few days after but I was a trooper and still tried to be my old crazy self! Now I am back up here to celebrate the New Year. I am going to spend it in NYC w/ the fam-see the ball drop in Times Square and go ice skating at Rockefeller on New Year's Day. It will be a good time. I hope everyone has plans that are great but safe. I want to see all of you in 2004! Okay, it's time to sum up what I have learned in the year 2003 and pass it on to all of you--my loved ones...

1. One thing that is constant in life is CHANGE-whether it be bad or good.

2. It is better to live one day as a lion than a hundred days as a sheep-(family member's saying)

3. Don't let the chance to say how you feel about someone pass because you may never get the chance again.

4. Never settle for anything or anybody less than you deserve.

5. There is never a dream too big to follow.

6. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger (had to personally remind myself a few times of that this past year)

7. You are not responsible for anybody else but yourself.

8. Sometimes letting go is the best solution.

9. Happiness is a choice. You either choose to be happy or choose to be unhappy.

10. And last but not least, live each day as your last-live, work, love, and play hard!

Well, off to bed I go my dear ones. Next time I will speak or hear from most of you will be in the New Year---I feel great things for this next year---I hope you feel the same : ) Love and Kisses....Bring it on 2004!

Love,
Rosebud