{"id":422,"date":"2009-01-01T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=422"},"modified":"2025-07-31T17:54:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T22:54:28","slug":"happy-new-year-pass-the-bleach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/happy-new-year-pass-the-bleach\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy new year, pass the bleach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so I&#8217;m a schmuck who makes New Year&#8217;s resolutions. Kinda sorta. Maybe. It depends.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16018 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081230_newyear.jpg\" alt=\"Black and gold New Year\u2019s Eve clipart with a clock, bottle, Martini, and confetti.\" width=\"274\" height=\"350\">This is how it goes.<\/p>\n<p>On New Year&#8217;s Day, I take down the Christmas tree, throw a sheet over it and stick it in the coat closet. In my world (and it took me 6 years to bring Dude around to it, although he won&#8217;t ever completely be around to it), you decorate a Christmas tree once about every ten years. And only once.<\/p>\n<p>Next: Taxes. This means bookkeeping.<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;ve been a good girl all year, this will only take me 2 or 3 days. If I haven&#8217;t, well \u2026 a week. It involves the following:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post\">\n<li class=\"none\">Paring files.<\/li>\n<li class=\"none\">Sorting receipts.<\/li>\n<li class=\"none\">Tossing, shredding, burning.<\/li>\n<li class=\"none\">And other activities indicative of office-spring-cleaning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do I end up with? A clean office, clean files, and my cursor on the TurboTax SEND button the minute Dude&#8217;s W-2 hits our mailbox.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post\">\n<li class=\"none\">Next: Hard drives.<\/li>\n<li class=\"none\">Next: Storage room.<\/li>\n<li class=\"none\">Next: Projects A, B, and C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Get the drift?<\/p>\n<p>I might not get all of this done, but I like to spend the new year cleaning out the past year and preparing for the new one. I simply cannot make any New Year&#8217;s resolutions until I burn through the past, look to the future, and figure out where I need to go next\u2014<\/p>\n<p>\u2014which means I usually end up making my New Year&#8217;s resolutions on or about November 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so I&#8217;m a schmuck who makes New Year&#8217;s resolutions. Kinda sorta. Maybe. It depends. This is how it goes. On New Year&#8217;s Day, I take down the Christmas tree, throw a sheet over it and stick it in the coat closet. In my world (and it took me 6 years to bring Dude around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[586,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organizing","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17033,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/17033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}