I win at 2011

In which your humble narrator welcomes the new year belatedly and sets forth his agenda for 2011.

2010, that vile, skanky, hussy of a year has come and gone. First the good:

• Child #2 started daycare and proceeded to show the other munchkins what verbal development is all about.
• Child #1 started preschool which was not as calamitous as he had feared. 
• Child #2 finished teething. 
• Wife-a-roo became Dr. Wife-a-roo, Ph.D. in Educational Psychology (not procrastination as I originally feared). 
• Child #1 got potty trained.
• I got handsomer.
• New fancy phone.

And the bad:

• Child #2 got all of her teeth between March and October. It was unpleasant. She was an angry, drooling wreck.
• Child #1 made potty training a painful, horrible experience for everyone in the house, and possibly for at least the 20% of residents of our zip code who live within ear shot.
• A massive hail storm necessitating a new roof (again) and new siding.
• Sister-of-mine had her car stolen.
• Grandma died.
• Constant phone calls to the mortgage company to get the money for the insurance settlement processed.
• Sinus infections 1-3.
• Became a minivan driver.
• The great purge of 2010.
• Twins choke.
• Reds choke.
• Michele Bachmann re-elected easily.

Needless to say, I won't miss this year. Coming up in 2011:

• Will call it "twenty-eleven." Gotta make the switch sometime.
• Dr. Me, Ph.D.
• Benjamins. It's all about the Benjamins.
• Eat cheese.