You know how sometimes we look back at the year behind us and think of all the wonderful things it brought…and suddenly we feel so overwhelmed with indebtedness to the universe for all the happiness in the world that we become afraid that our hearts might explode but then, hey, who cares, right, because everything and everyone is so magical and great and rainbows and unicorns that nothing can get us down, not even a gratitude-induced cardiac arrest?

Yeah, 2009 was not that year for me.

Don’t get me wrong, there are a myriad of things that I should be thankful for, and I am. I really am. There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t realize my huge populace of blessings, each of which I do not deserve.  But 2009 has been rough. Emotionally, financially, gynecologically…okay, maybe not gynecologically. But burdensome nonetheless.

It sounds eerily similar to what I said a year ago, but I want 2010 to be different. By the way, that reminds me…do you guys realize that January marks the one-year anniversary here at YourDailyThomas.com? For 365 solid days you have all listened to me ramble incessantly about everything from childhood memories to canine rectal exams. Thanks for that. I’m going to go ahead and file that in the “rainbows and unicorns” folder in my mind. Anyway, I’m hoping with all my might that I have more positive things to write about in 2010, and if I’m really lucky maybe even a few gynecological adventures.

I’m planning on working up my list of New Year’s resolutions in the days to come. I will, of course, post them here so that I can look back later and see how many of them I gave up on by February. In the meantime, I thought I would share this video I saw on BeyonceWorld.net today which I thought was fun and appropriate for this post. It is a mash-up music video by DJ Earworm featuring all of the top 25 Billboard hits of the year. And, no, haters, it’s not all Beyonce, although she did have 2 of the top 25 hits. Heller!