Around here, we like to make New Year's wishes instead of resolutions. It makes much better karmic sense. Failed resolutions cause anguish, but it's a real treat when a wish comes true.
So, please find the nearest star and start reading.
We wish everyone great shopping all year; the kind of experience that makes you giddy with delight every time you buy something.
We wish everyone could muster up the courage to tell people what they really want and return gifts they don't like.
We wish everyone who gives a wrong gift the strength to tell the receiver to take it back and mean it.
We wish that the District would be packed with delighted shoppers all the live-long day. Explore the great stores out there: Fitigues, Anthropologie (finally), REI. Come on, now, people—shop. Have dinner. See a movie. Make it an evening.
We wish a store like the Reading Room would open up in the Arts District near Dust and Godt Cleary Projects. Hell, and a great shoe store, clothing boutique, paperie and sidewalk café, too.
We wish Modify, the funky furniture store on Charleston Boulevard near Main Street, would keep regular hours.
We wish Boca Park sweet success with its imported fountain water during this time of drought.
We wish Le Boudoir Boutique back open.
We wish Ligne Roset a better turnaround time. Las Vegans aren't patient folk, but imagine how fabulous their homes could be if they were.
We wish Unica Home continued success at its Industrial Road location and its satellite inside the Funkhouse on Casino Center and Colorado Boulevard. Ditto for Talulah G in Boca Park and the Fashion Show.
We wish Starbucks would learn the difference between unsweetened tea and tea with no sweetener. We know it's a matter of semantics, but you can't undo something that has not been done.
We wish Summerlin and Green Valley moms would stop dropping children off for school in their Juicy Couture sweat suits with "Juicy" emblazoned across their asses. In fact, let's stop wearing any clothes with words emblazoned across the ass. And that goes double for overalls for everyone over 3 feet tall.
We wish everyone some kind of custom-shopping experience. Buy some custom boots from David's Western Wear. Take your car into a body shop to see what they can do to make it sizzle. Embroider. Accessorize.
Finally, we wish you all bling and prosperity during the coming year.
E-mail Anne Kellogg at [email protected].