What are you doing New Year's Eve?

First of all, I need to share this super retro-cool video from the likes of Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who each have one foot planted in the 1940s and the other ensconced in the twenty-tens.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSq1cez_flQ

And now, I'll ask again, "What are you doing New Year's Eve?"  Getting soused out of your gourd amidst a gaggle of chatty friends?  Or are you going to blend into the anonymity of the teeming throngs of a public gathering, where the big crystal ball slowly descends to announce the arrival of baby new year?  Maybe you and your sweetie will simply stay at home, ringing in 2012 with champagne kisses?  Or perhaps you don't really consider this evening a big deal, and you're perfectly content with going to sleep early after watching "Duck Soup"?

Whatever you plan to do, I hope there's an element of release and a soupcon of hopeful greeting and expectation.  Release those things that may have held you back, or things that clouded and deadened your energy during this past year.  Imagine them on the last page of your 2011 wall calendar and see yourself ripping them off the wall and sending them to the recycling can.

And then, make room for growth and happiness, for creative splurges and thrilling adventures.  Greet new and positive relationships - see them walk right into the room in your mind's eye.  Paint a mental portrait of joyful expectation and promise, a 2012 filled with wonder, play, gratefulness, prosperity and plenty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b7qaSxuZUg

May 2012 be filled with love, possibility and peace for all.