When Aly first asked me to write a guest post for the first of
January to celebrate the release of TimeMends, possibly with a New Years resolution theme, I immediately thought of
My So-Called Life.* There is this
episode that starts with all the characters sitting around watching a
pre-stroke Dick Clark herald in 1995. And as they’re watching, they do
voice-overs of all their resolutions. It’s one of my favorite moments of the
show because you get this really awesome over-view of each of the characters. Because
resolutions, they’re like this really intimate thing, you know?**
So,
inspired by the spirit of Angela Chase,*** I am sharing Scout and company’s
spoiler-free resolutions.
Scout: No more messes.
No clothes just laying around in piles of clean and unclean and kinda clean. No
more accidentally growing science experiments in the bottom drawer of the
cabinet in my bathroom. No more screwing up the lives of everyone I love. This
year, I’m Talley-izing my life.
Jase: Increase my free
throw average to .90. Stop wanting things I can’t have. Be more awesome.
Charlie: I need to
learn to accept the things I cannot change, have the courage to change the
things I can, and have the wisdom to know the difference. Or, at least, that’s
what my therapist says. And me? I think I just need to grow up and move on.
Talley: Try harder.
And maybe learn a foreign language.
Angel: I want to: 1.
Learn how to use the stove. 2. Read all the Harry Potter books, even the ones
that Mom thinks are too scary. 3. Grow taller.
Alex: Follow the rules
and quit getting distracted by her.
Liam: Avenge and
atone.
* I’m of the
Catalano generation. I almost always immediately think of My So-Called Life. Or Buffy
the Vampire Slayer. Or maybe even Veronica
Mars... You know, there is a chance my own New Years resolution should have
been to watch less TV.
** This sentence can be blamed on the fact I turned My So-Called Life on in the background
while I typed this. I think I may throw on a flannel and dye my hair red next.
*** Who wanted to not get caught up in her thoughts so much and
become less introspective, except that might make her shallow, so she was going
to have to think about it some more.
Thanks to Miss Tammy for the helping us to get to know her Timber Wolves Trilogy Characters a little better. Tammy Blackwell
is the Young Adult Services Coordinator for a public library system in
Kentucky. When she's not reading, writing, or cataloging books, she's
sleeping. She is the author of the YA Novel Destiny Binds and now Time Mends.
You can follow Tammy on twitter: @miss_tammy or check out her website: http://misstammywrites.blogspot.com/
For more information about her awesome characters, check out the Destiny Binds character interview Tammy did a few months ago, click here.
