The holidays are over, now it’s time for the tradition of making resolutions.

I do admit I spent the first day of the new year avoiding one of my 2010 goals. I thought if I was going to break the resolution, why wait a few days.

I waited a few hours before the dark-colored sugary beverage beckoned me to the refrigerator.

The rest of the day was used as an anti-detox pop day.

I know what a bad way to begin the year, already going back on the goal of no pop. But it worked in a way. I shivered as I looked at the 2-liter sitting in the fridge the next day. My stomach had enough and the temptation was gone.

It has to stop. For the last two years I drank pop everyday – more than my college years, even more than when I was working in places I could drink it – for free.

Since the lapse I have been good and looking at each day as a new day.

Now coffee is a different story and I need it on the late Mondays and long Tuesdays. It is rarely one of my goals to give it up. Though I will limit my visits to a certain coffee chain and since their special holiday drinks are disappearing from the menu it won’t be as hard.

Kudos to everyone who has still kept their resolutions since January 1. As for resolution breakers like me, it’s not too late you can still do it!

I also look forward to a better 2010. The future looks bright from the beginning of a new year. I have yet to break the news to my Vue, Saturn is closing in hopes someone will buy it from GM.

Many events are yet to be determined as how close each sport will get to the state finals or how much Michigan plans to cut in November (months after each district has already planned for the fiscal year).

But the anticipation grows for the planned events throughout the community and all of the schools and a little concert in March I anxiously waited 48 hours until the moment 10 a.m. to hit the buy button for tickets.

I am looking past the grayness of the economy and looking towards the promising future. May those without jobs find them and those with jobs keep them.

See you in the bleachers!