Not to sound like Jerry Seinfeld, but it’s a topic of conversation Dave and I have every year. Why do we need to have a New Year’s Resolution? I think Dave put it right yesterday during the Dick Clark New Year’s show when this girl was going thru the crowds asking everyone’s resolutions:<\/p>\n
“If I think I need to improve something about myself, I’ll start improving immediately and not wait till January 1st.”<\/p>\n
Of course, one of things we always do on Jan. 2nd is start our Annual Vollmer Diet Attempt. We’re coming up on the 13th Annual Vollmer Diet Attempt tomorrow! Yep — lose 10 pounds by Feb. 1st! Whoo hoo, the enthusiasm is there, can’t you tell???<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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I think Dave put it right yesterday during the Dick Clark New Year’s show when this girl was going thru the crowds asking everyone’s resolutions: “If I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,10,616],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-fI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/01\/whos-the-latest-victim-for-the-13th-annual-vollmer-diet-attempt.html","url_meta":{"origin":974,"position":0},"title":"Who’s the latest Victim for the 13th Annual Vollmer Diet Attempt?","date":"02 January 08","format":false,"excerpt":"So...who should be our victim this year? 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