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My resolution is to engage in revolution of the personal kind.

Going round in circles, lotlot?

The real scruffy mutt Floyd is depicted on last post of yesterday by Peter Lake.

I resolve to quit dating everything 2011

There can be only one......

Hazel, if your just getting up, I'd better be nos da'ing. I think Floyd is ready for a walk in your garden......

Hazel: Check final post of yesterday re: Floyd.  I added one.  I am hours behind all of you here in CA and to me it is still New Years Night.  12:28 am to be precise.  Sorry.

From "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,"

"The moving hand writes
and having writ
moves on."

I resolve to have and keep the good attributes of a palimpsest. I resolve to own all that I learned from the Hitch, and to be like Bartleby the Scrivener.

If the above doesn't make absolute sense at first, well, I have been in the sun and the wind today. It has wreaked itself upon me, and so I am just being uneditedly direct.

For a while back there, in what I thought was my enlightened state, I did make new year resolutions only to forget them by the second week of January. Luckily, being Chinese always meant I get a second chance when Chinese New Year comes around, typically between mid-Jan and mid-Feb. It hit me one day that the Chinese Don'T make new year resolutions! That suits me fine! My philosophy of living the year is ala little dim sim steps.....achievable small steps and goals, and everything in moderation

For a while back there, in what I thought was my enlightened state, I did make new year resolutions only to forget them by the second week of January. Luckily, being Chinese always meant I get a second chance when Chinese New Year comes around, typically between mid-Jan and mid-Feb. It hit me one day that the Chinese Don'T make new year resolutions! That suits me fine! My philosophy of living the year is ala little dim sim steps.....achievable small steps and goals, and everything in moderation

Ooops.... Sorry, typing on my mobile

Happy New Year SF! Good things come in threes, too. Amazing we are both up and about at the same time on opposite sides of the planet. I am most definitely not a vampire, but I love the night and often dread what Jay McInerney called "the dawn's surly light."

I thought the transliterated phrase is "dim sum."

Mark:  Dim Sum is what you eat.  I assume that what Pat means is something to do with walking?  Dim means small I will bet!

"The dawn's surly light."  I love that.   Spring Fragrance  Hello to you and Happy New Year in Tasmania. KSS  Happy New Year to you where ever you are on the other side of this planet. Make mine Southern California where the sun if finally shining, the oranges and avocados are ripe on my trees and I just noticed some blossoms on my strawberry plants!!!  God is good.

Happy new year Karma and Dash! Hope your new year bad started well! It's summer here, and it's difficult not to be in a good mood. Dash, your hours must be the same as Jane's. KSS, honestly i actually say tim sum so dim sum is close. The Australians say dim sim, which is supposed to mean the same. I have given up telling them they have made them a little too big (same with their sushi). Dash, dim sum means "little hearts" which i thought kind of is  kind of a good way to treat new year resolutions

I hope your new year HAS started well...

You say you want
a resolution

I feel any resolution worth it's salt must be hand written in a personal journal. There I can laugh at my own shortcomings and shake off the dust when I "fall down". The oft misused term "repent" means a change of mind. I can tweak as the practical and the ideal intersect somewhere near the material and the ethereal. I am a better man for it. We are all better people when we realize that we are what we are and not just what we have or do. It’s scary to not attach things or labels and just be you. Not of us like to be naked. But all of us like to be free and that's why we should declare it publicly perhaps lest we play that Self Deception Game like the Emperor in his new suit of clothes.

I've read several articles recently suggesting that we NOT do New Year's Resolutions.  The authors suggest that they are a leap into failure and that we slam our own self esteem.  I prefer to set some immediate intentions.  And from my training from a wonderful coach, I set them as things that are readily attainable.  At this time, I have two: to meditate daily for at least 20 minutes and to exerecise at least four times a week by walking at least 30 minutes.  If I can get those two going, a lot if ither things will happen more easily.  'Nuf said.

Actually, Spring Fragrance, I think some dim sum would be a good way to start the New Year.  新年快樂 - Happy New Year.

oh yes Lynn...I agree. It's midnight and I am suddenly feeling peckish! What browser are you using, that allows you to insert the chinese characters? And xin nian kwei lei back to you!

I resolve.................now what was it I was resolving to do?  Oh, yeah, work on my memory.

Spring Fragrance:  I rang in the new year with some DIM SUM at a Chinatown Tea House.
I'd rather toast with green tea than champagne when all the amatuer drinners are out driving in Manhattan.  

New Year's Resolutions need to be goals that we can realistically achieve.  Getting out of debt is not easy for someone going through a serious medical condition or paused between jobs.  You need to resolve to change something that you can control not something that has the potential to fail due to unknown variables.
 

There is a commercial running on the local NYC news telling people that they can exercise more in the new year by getting off the bus or train one stop before their destination and walking the rest of the way.  Sounds plausible but NY weather is dicey in winter, with heavy rains, snow and ice.  This advice may not be so helpful to the faint of heart, as freezing temperature cause your heart to work harder and the physical strain may be too much.  Therefore that resolution can be easily broken for many within the first week. 

It took me a long time to realize that New Year's Resolutions became self defeating prophecies and that for me, it is the process. By that I mean by the time I consider all the things I could make resolutions about, I have at least touched upon what issues need to be addressed. Of course, Eat Less, Exercise More, Win the Lottery top the list every year but there are always other issues.

One more day until Real Life commences...enjoy it everyone!

I am trying to be less judgemental, but other drivers are foiling my plans...

My  resolution is to take better care of myself, not in the traditional  way of losing weight or scheduling "me time" but in making sure I'm prepared for emergancies.  As a volunteer I always give out Blizzard Boxes to my clients but I forget to stock my cabinets with the supplies I need in case of inclement weather.  This year I'm  making it a priority to keep batteries in the flashlights, canned foods in the cupboard and a go bag with the extras that are needed if I ever need to evacuate again as I did during Hurricane Irene.
   

I reasolve to be more resolute.

UMMGAWA:  That is certainly a Good way to start !!!  Like Planning to make a Plan !!!   Put sufficient Thought in things, and they usually turn out Better ...
 
GOOD  MORNING  ALL !!! 
 
I hope 2012 is starting off for y'all as well as it is for me !!!  It is said that however your year starts out is a harbinger of how it will be for the rest of the year ....... May Fortune Smile So Upon You All That You'll Have To Build a Bigger House To Keep All The Goodness Out Of The Rain !!!
 
We took the entire Krewe out for Breakfast this morning ... I have done all the cooking I want to, for a while ... Its about Forty-Eight Degrees, a little windy, and there is a Bright Ball of Fire in the East ....... Another cup of coffee, and it will be time to cut all the switches on again .......
 
GOOD  DAY !!!!!!!

I am copying the list Mr. P wrote at the top of the page, and just dating it and signing my name! So, there, TT! It is in print and public. Started with 10 min. exercise this AM, and a bare boiled egg, mere toast, coffee....If only there were a pill to drop pounds as easily as tasting good food!

With my January birthday, I have 2 reasons to set goals....67 is getting lots closer to 70, and the feeling that I am sliding down the other side of the hill.

Live in the moment! As a child and spouse of the nomadic military life, I've spent my life relocating, unpacking, waiting for the next assignment, packing, and relocating.  It's that waiting and wondering what's around that next corner that's the double-edged sword - we're forever curious as to what lies ahead, but forever unable to fully enjoy the experience going on right now!   This year, I resolve to temper my what-if curiosity with moments of what-is indulgence!

So, the mystery of Floyd's real identity is settled...thank you, Peter Lake....

http://www.petermanseye.com/images/photos/post/istock_000004935293xsmall.jpg?1314178339

And Bert has been chastised by bebe, animal shelter CEO woman, and now he is not letting his new doggie chase the car down the street...Pup should be on a leash, behind a fence, or in the house safely away from the traffic, Bert. Hope your court appearance today goes well....as for using ideas or quotations from this site in a court opening statement, I'd say that was a good use of information, whatever the sources, if it seems the right words at the right time.

Spring - All those dim sim, dim sum, and some small steps seem like good ideas..."A journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step," or some wisdom like that still makes sense. Small improvements give us the feeling of accomplishment, and may lead to larger results, as Spring and Julia say.

2012, I  vow to do better as a Scrivener; I re-submitted and re -wrote two screenplays "Bearing Fruit, " and "Allegewi Soul Mates," I had enter them last year 2010, in a film festival; I submitted by via Certified mail on the 29th of December, 2011; I admit they were unfinished...works last year because I had a 5 day notice of submission;  so, I have acted as a palimpsest in my recently re-submitted manuscripts..***************.I will not coast in life or scrieve my days away. Life is short!*********
 ..'War Horse," the latest movie out caused tears to stream down my cheeks and the roan color fausant horse reminded me of my horse, Brandy. Brandy, another, Love of my Life.....who is loss and gone just like the many soldiers of war; my Uncle John served in World War I Calvary and I stll have his stiff leather chestnut brown leg chaps and uniform..hat and all ..He became a Doctor of Law! Attorney John Skweir,how  many Doctor of Law are there?
*******Read a book, Outlawing the Almighty!!!*****
 Not that I want to rouse you or convoke you... I am voting for Obama/Biden ticket....health care needs reform... dont believe in such rumours from the Republican,......" wa was wa," ; I am Republican and dire things are dire....when policies cause the 3 D's as I call it Death , Disability, and Disease..or vice versa..Disease, Disability and Death...we have hit the chaotic abyss bottom of the barrell yeks...!  In Pennsylvania, Suicide rates are an all time high....yeks....children taken away from their mothers.....we are in a Depression.....CEO's making 300 or more times the average hospital worker..the environment of all unproductive public schools...."2% nepotism children succeed!
.At an estate auction yesterday, I expressed my opionion. with a wonderful socially sound articulate woman..and she said...oh there are plenty of health care workers making money,,,i bantered back ..".what 2 % of them... because I did not succeed in " as a HospitaL,"MAKING MONEY," Dietitian...I founded the first Dietitian Practice Office, the American Heart Association in a low country ocean setting in  South Coaolina a Wellness Group in the late 80's early 90's and helped many many people; I would never tell my children to strive for a career in healthcare, it's GREAT for the money!!! Are you kidding me....Alot of careers are that..... you are a big help but weren't not paying you a cent....so you are actually doing missionary..... volunteer work...OK....... it is what it is!!!  See you do not have to go out of United States to do missionary work  ; working for corporations if you are one of the unlucky employees on the below sea level roster....you do not get benefits or perks you are just "expected"....to be a low paid employee...no wonder people are hanging out hungry on the Brooklyn bridge where my Dad was born near 92nd street New York New York!!!
  I, too, need inspirit intervention; this movie, War Horse, was an inspriation to me to keep trying......before I dye....to have courage to help our deplorable time..here in ..my mountains,city and world. I have considered joining the  corps they could use a good swimmer/NAUI diver....even at my age.................so, ok..... I gatchya,,,,,that is just not possible @ this time; i hope to keep providing opportunity in the arts....help those to get going on a peaceful path...through the singing, dramatic theatre field;also i am training to teach you.. how to care for Farm animals and I still keep up with teaching Beekeeping...it's vunderful....I am writing grants too. My hopes are your dreams.....heard this before..from our mothers and fathers.... Tempus fuguit!  my Latin teacher would say, then too she would say "Around every cloud is a silver lining!"  I will post my video on the Pittsburgh Victorian Girls on Youtube shortly, I vow to and  will work harder on marketing...marketing this 2012; remember my books "White Buffalo Spirit and Honey for All & Pittsburgh Victoria are on Etsy.com my store name is Wild Trout Lilly; I vow to aviate and navigate my life as golden aventurin reflection that includes : lots of spects of lifegiving proposals to solutions to people particiipation in the Peace Movement. Peace is Worth Keeping, danger lurks nearby, and don's yen's be so nescience!
  Should I press the button SEND or did I give TMI  !!!

Here in N. Ga, we are looking at morning temperatures in the 20's with strong winds, making the wind chill in the teens...I am feeling bad for the little children standing at the bus stops early in AM! Granddaughter walks to her school, so it is a good thing she got hats and gloves to go with her boots and heavy coat. Bundle up, kids! Windy and sunny today, so I am staying in.

Did school start in N.Ga today? Today is still a full-on holiday here. Nothing starts til tomorrow...and it sounds as if its warmer in New England!

Moose- Off to see the "Woman with the Crimson Ink". Will give you my review. It was that or The Descendents. Hope I chose wisely.

Mooseloop, your doggie picture was pretty awesome too. You name him and he can hang with Floyd.... But he does have to do something about his fish breath!

Be well and happy new year to you!

I learned two interesting things today. Arabian horses were always accompanied by camels in Saudi Arabia. The reason being was because they are dependent upon humans for their needs, and the camels can provide milk if water is short.  Makes very good sense why in the pre-oil days they used camel caravans crossing the deserts.
 
The other thing was that with a lunar calendar or a lunisolar calendar that sets recurring festivals on specific days in a lunar month, it takes 33 years for the date to come back around again to the place where the calendar started getting out of whack with the seasons.  That is probably why we fixed on 33 years for a generation. 
 
I guess my New Year's resolution is to fill what's left of my aging brain with more interesting trivia.  It's certainly beats the politics of this country and the mean-spiritedness of most of the inhabitants.
 
Oh, I got a death threat on the phone last night.  I thought about calling and reporting it to the sheriff, but then I figured they had dialed the wrong number and had no way of knowing who they called, only who they thought they had called.  The brilliant guys were quite obvious of an ethnic group that tends to disregard the mores of other countries by disrespecting their laws, so they left me with their caller ID showing name and number!
 
Happy New Year.  I wonder if anything will be new, or if it will just be moe of the same Screw
'em All policies we have become inured to.

I vow to be more concise.  There.  I made one.  And within 24 hours maximum, I vow to break that vow.  I feel ever so much better now, one of the group, because up until now, I didn't make any resolutions.  I gave up years ago, sometime just past mid adulthood, when I realized that the best changes I make in my life happen spontaneously, with no pre-planning at all.  And so it goes, and it goes pretty well in that manner, for me at least:  My best self shows itself by way of surprise.

I resolve to try to stick to my daily list.  I made one last night with only five things on the "to do".  The thing is, Park, I'm with you, and by this time tomorrow I'll have gotten behind on the list, decided to do something that isn't on the list, or completely ignored the list I write out tonight for tomorrow.   Maybe I can even finish today's list.

It's colder than witches ass here in middle earth, AKA Metro Atlanta. Very cold and wind blowing briskly, warmer indoors, where stir crazy cabin fevered Bowl Game watching people live.

I resolve to find "The Nick" to my "Nora" or maybe just to stop dating Idiots altogether....or maybe clean a little better, or stop sleeping in & be at work on time, or to be more something or another...

In all honestly, I feel I did pretty good in 2011. The road I FINALLY am traveling on is a pleasant one and I hope to be able to stay the course in 2012.

And of course hopefully I will be having a few "Larks" along the way...

I am one of the 35%.  I do not make resolutions on the New Year.  If I can not manage to change myself during the rest of the year, what difference does the New Year make?  I make small adjustments as I go along, listening to those who are kind enough and eloquent enough to let me know in what I might improve myself and how.  These things are done in small steps and achieved after much struggle.  I do not believe I can become a better person by going on a diet.  I do believe I can become a better person by keeping my compassion and patience at the forefront of my conciousness all through the year.  Those are two traits I fought a mighty battle for and I will not relinquish them easily.  But a resolution seems a small thing to me, something one tosses off for fun at the stroke of midnight.  Unless there is a life-changing event that prompts such a resolution, accompanied by deep thought and fierce inner struggle, a resolution is not worth the paper it is written on.  Just my opinion.

I don't make New Year's resolutions either. I always would break them, so why torment myself, I'm tormented enough as it is....................
 
MOOSE...................I may have sounded quite nanny, nanny boo-boo, but animals are very important to me. I would say that how someone treats animals says much about them. No, not a CEO just a lowly board member.................
 
UMM...................tis freezing here & very windy................I will have a nip of Maker's Mark after my wine this evening..................
 
 

I wonder how many have really changed their lives by the 'resolutions' they make?  Perhaps the only positive of the annual rite of resolution making is that it has us taking a long look at ourselves.......that's always a good thing, whether or not you abide by any promises you make while drunk, hung-over, or just in the grip of tradition.   At least once a year we should all make a self-assessment as to how we're doing and where we think we need to go--based on all the unexpected curves that Life continues to lob our way.  'Tis noble, maybe, to proclaim that "This year I will.....", but nobler still to daily make the changes that enable positive change in us and others, to be guided by our conscience, to continue to love and be happy and supportive.  Be open to the serendipity on the menu of life instead of sticking to the burger and fries of doldrum!  

CAROL.................ah yes, the simplest ones are often the most easily compromised...................

Well put, Carol.

Serendipity, kismuth, banana pudding soul... Love that fare. The wheels on that big cosmic bus go round and round, Carol and Dash.
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Moose- Tattoo was great cinematography, good story, and solid acting. Too much sex and for me as it consumes valuable story time and I am of the Hitchcock camp of what you don't see is the most suspenseful.
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Sea Island- Keep up the good work!
I am off to Gypsy rehearsal as the oily Uncle Jocko- A piece of me Symbollically belongs in Vaudeville! Ivan and me. Is everybody happy?

Oh, Sea Island Lady, please do not vote for Obama and his wasteful spending.

At least one 'inspirational' text I've read alleges that the Eastern philosophy is best for managing changes in our personal lives.  I don't refer to changes like quitting a job and finding a better one, although it might apply in certain instances.  Rather, it was referring to the  New Year's Day variety - losing weight, ending procrastination, etc.  Baby steps, it recommended.  Dim sum?
 
In fact, it suggested that with exercise, one might start by simply standing up during the  commercials on TV.  Tiny changes that don't seem like changes and seem nearly meaningless.  One week, we stand up  - the next week, we might jog in place for 30 seconds.  Pretty soon, you're the next Jack LaLanne.
 
My resolution is to improve by tiny but continuous degrees. 

TOMMY:  You're just saying that because it is True .......
 
Altho' ... I have often thought it might best be Comic Opera !!!
 
And, I agree with you Tommy ... I too have never believed Sex to be a Spectator Sport ... but then, I have never believed Pee Wee Herman to be a Movie Critic, either ... while Rex Reed DID come close ... (did I spell that right ???)

Not an attempt to curry favor with J. Peterman but the most expedient way to deal with having to suck in your gut further than it is willing to go in order to button up is simply to acquire clothing that fits.
Just a little further north of Atlanta, it is snow covered and 15°F or what we like to call chilly.
It is quiet: some of our loved ones are in Pasadena for the Rose Bowl, some on their way back to New York City.
The crystal flutes and tumblers have been moved to the back of the cupboard giving way to the beer, scotch and sherry glasses which have no season.

rings90 ~
"Larks" I got that. Who else?

Julia Masi ~
Were it not for the volunteer work, you would owe a note from home for that seven week (?) absence.
Nice that you are back.  




 

Not a resolution maker or keeper either. Change comes from day to day, hour to hour and minute by minute and you have to go with the flow.
Moose: I hear you loud and clear on your animal status. It's amazing how much love you find in the daily caring of one of our four footed friends or feathery companions and the trust it generates so enhances your daily life. Makes you a better person and certainly a more compassionate one.
As for the world in general, what's needed and in such abundance, is a little more love, compassion and understanding. Think how quickly we could turn things around in this tired, old, war-weary world. Now THAT'S something to resolve.

and finish what you start- - like those cookies- - there are not enough left to put away

Stoney- you are correct, Sir.

Ivan- Back when it was 3 shows a day, they earned their pay. Speaking of paying what is the scoop on Fatty Arbuckle?
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I think Jack Nicholson in Chinatown was amazing.

Stoney...I got it but managed to forget it. It is probably still hanging in the Chicago Art Museum.

Stoney: just today I too did the out with the etched crystal and back in with the familiar, unetched easy-in-the-hands glassware.  That no one breaks, because I think, no one would miss a piece or two until there was nothing to drink with...  The etched stuff breaks if you only sigh a bit too loudly in its direction.......   I think I digressed, and said too much about nothing much.  You see: A resolution made and unmade within 24 hours, just as predicted.  No matter. It's done and so let's get on with the rest of it.