I finally get around to writing my bucket list and then I discover rather than a leisurely lifetime to complete it I’ve got a month.

Apparently the Mayans failed to continue their calendar beyond 21st December 2012 so now everyone is in a panic that we bite the bullet this year just before Christmas. Hold off on the Christmas shopping folks.

I knew there was some scuttlebutt about 2012 being the end of the world – I went and saw the movie. But somehow it slipped my mind, I kinda thought the date and come and gone and just like the Y2K bug we’d survived. But no, apparently it’s still our future.

Has anyone checked in with Nostradamus? It’s always good to get a second opinion you know.

There doesn’t seem to be an explanation on how we are going to go. I’m guessing it would have to be some giant inter-planetary collision or major meteorite incident. It was a meteorite that got the dinosaurs wasn’t it? Notice my highly tuned scientific knowledge, I don’t know why NASA has called upon services.

By the way, I want to go in the inital blast, no hanging around scavenging for survival being a hero for me. A world without power, clean water and supermarket shopping, I’m just not that self-sufficient. Also, I’m only just starting to get into this whole social media thing I can’t possibly go on if nobody is able to “heart” my Instagram photos of the apocalypse.

So if we’ve only got 26 days left how are you gonna spend it? I’ll eat more, laugh often and hug my kids.

I’m tempted to hand in my resignation and party hard for the remainder, but it would be a tad embarrassing to have to go grovelling back on the 22nd with an “oops, the end didn’t come and the mortgage still needs to be paid”.

As usual I’m looking after your wellbeing here, bringing you the most highly researched information that can be found with a google search of “Mayan End of World”. I’ve discovered NASA issued a notice that nothing is heading our way, basically the scientific dudes reckon we are good.

The archeologists and anthropologists say the Mayans didn’t predict the end of the world, in fact they are plans beyond the 21st December which was pretty forward thinking giving they were working over 5,000 years into the future.

The more alternative sites proclaim that the Mayans were simply stating the end of one world cycle and the beginning of another. Our new cycle will see a move into less of a patriarchal ruling to a balancing of the masculine, feminine energy. Our new age will see the focus becoming the earth and restoring it. We will move from profit at all costs to valuing people and planet over the commercial.

Sounds kinda nice, as long as nobody has missed a flaming meteorite, we’ll be sweet.

So 21-12-2012 (see when you write it like that it looks all significant) will come and go, the kids will still argue, the bills will still have to paid and the house will still need to be cleaned. Right?