I hope everyone had a happy New Year's Day. I feel as though I should wrap up a few loose ends, blog-wise. Warning: Long Blog!
First of all, a faithful reader of this blog (toebee), has posted an exceptional entry on his own blog. I have to mention it because I think Roz will get a kick out of it. Go read it, but come back. Don't forget where your loyalty lies!
Roz and I didn't get to do our yearly Christmas Smack-Talk, so all we can do is rehash last year's bad lights.
I had a good "reading year" last year. My previous record was 52 books in a year. In 2006, I read 59 (and I took two whole months off from reading, think of what I could have done!) I guess I'll try to beat that this year. It shouldn't be too hard if I don't get burned out.
We picked up my new bookshelf and it's wonderful. Before I had piles of books everywhere--one pile for books I haven't read yet, one pile for books I've read but want to keep, one pile for books I've read and want to give away...just insane. Now I actually have shelves to put them on to get them off the floor and organize them. This makes me happy. I have a book obsession (admitting it is the first step) and I have a problem with acquiring books at a much faster rate than I can read them. My goal this year is to balance that out a little bit. It's really hard, but I've already passed up an opportunity or two to acquire books. Baby steps.
I don't really believe in New Year's Resolutions, but if I did, here's what I'd put down.
1. Drink less Coke/more water.
2. Acquire books at a slower rate or read at a faster rate.
3. Get into some kind of exercise routine again. (that's so cliche)
4. Less clutter. (Flylady, please help me!)
5. Be less of a shrew.
Let's see, what else? I met the boy's immediate family and nobody hit me, so that's good. I feared that I would at least get hit with a marshmallow since his nephews got these guns that shoot the big fat chubby bunny kind, but I was lucky. A neighborhood cat was not so lucky. Maybe I should have asked to borrow it to take out some of the feral cats in my neighborhood. Another one jumped out of the bushes at me last night. I think maybe they sleep in my flower bed. I'm so embarrassed. My neighbors probably think the cats belong to me.
4 comments:
Oh, man, love the tacky lights post. My sis and I criticize almost every light display we see every year. It's great fun.
That was almost as much fun as Dave Barry's annual holiday gift guide:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/features/2006/holiday-guide/gifts/dave_barry_gift_guide/index.html
Thanks for the link!
We were in Milwaukee over the New Years and down the street from my brothers family is one of the tackiest I have seen. Have a pic and I will post later this week for all to enjoy.
As we drove around looking for the tackiness around the Dallas area we mentioned that we were glad to see that the Nativity scene had not made it into the inflatible field. Talking to a friend about this he then informed us that he had seen an inflatible Nativity scene. The tragedy that is inflatibles. Where will it end if ever?
Sorry about the hogs lose to my Wisconsin Badgers. That was one of the worst games I have been witness too. No one seemed to want to win the game.
Have a great New Year!
toebee...
That was one of the best junior-high football games I've seen !
toebee,
A local radio station was talking about bad Christmas decorations the other day. A lady called and said she lives in a nice neighborhood that tries to have kind of matching decorations, luminaries, etc. A new family moved in and put up all kinds of tacky inflatables. She said she didn't know what was worse: during the night when they were all inflated or during the day when they were all deflated and flat on the ground.
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