I’ve come to the conclusion that 2023 was the year I watched shit do stuff. I observed a few things, but I didn’t really participate. I’m coming out of 2023 unscathed.
I always look at years as sport seasons. A year has twelve months, so it has twelve games. If the year was five hundred, you’d be 6-6. A winning year is 7-5 and a losing year would be 5-7. In 2023 the JumboLove went 8-4.
We could have had a better season, but we lost a couple great players and we have a pesky team in the division. We will need to learn how to go into the next season without those legendary players and change up our game plan for the other teams in the Black and Blue Division.
As for 2024, I think I’m going to wear brown pants everyday. I’m scared shitless of this coming year. The brown pants will cover it up if I crap myself.
Johnny Cash wore black, Prince wore purple and I’m going to wear brown. I had a brown Cadillac in the nineties. It was actually Butt-butter Brown and my Oldman sold it to me for four thousand bucks. You don’t want to hold onto the past, but I’d really love to have the Dadillac parked next to Betty the Green Blazer.
(I just did the old erasing of several horrible paragraphs.)
Here is what I’m going with….
I’m going to celebrate a winning season tonight. I’m going to toast the players we have lost and welcome the new players that we’ve picked up this year. I’m going to look at every loss and see what I’ve gained from them.
I’m going to eat an orange before midnight and an orange afterwards. In the morning I’m going to take a third orange and toss it in the river. I’m calling this my “Three oranges that end and begin.”
The first orange cleanses 2023 from my body, the second orange cleanses my mind and soul for 2024 and the third orange symbolizes something that I haven’t figured out yet.
I just want to write “2023” and “2024” on an orange with a Sharpie and see how far I can chuck it down the river. I probably shouldn’t use the Sharpie. That defeats the whole getting in tune with nature part of this new orange tradition.
Maybe I should buy more oranges and include the morning mimosa in this “Three Oranges” deal?
Call it the “Cleansing of the nine oranges.”
Let’s all end and begin the year with some vitamin c…
…wash away the 2023 season and feel fresh for the 2024 season.
Don’t hand off the ball so much and blitz on every down.
Happy New Year Chalkheads.
