I made no resolutions for this year. Well, at least none in writing, and definitely told no one any of my own personal goals I may have (hint: not putting them here either). But I think a person always tends to hope that the "new year" will be a "good one", and I think they usually mean in the areas of employment, finance, health, family. Yeah, I would have to say that I always have the general hope that these areas of my life will be "good" this year. I also see how today would be a big kicker for many.
Today is Friday the 13th.
Oooooo... scary! NOT! But it does bring us just short of being two weeks into the new year, and from what I have been hearing, many, many peoples have given up on the resolutions they made that New Year's Eve/Day. Those pounds you been wanting to drop? Yeah... the gym is just too busy, or I tried to make the time, but it makes me lose an hour of sleep. Not for me, mind you. I haven't been to the gym at all this year, yet. This damn cast stinking already, I can imagine what it would be reeking like if all the workout sweat were accumalating in it. (Shakes head). Yeah, I don't want to go there. Otherwise, the health portion of my year is going fine. I have not weighed myself, but still feel the pounds dropping (though slower than with workouts). Just been watching what and how much I eat.
In the areas of Finance and Employment, we know 99% of the time, these two will be hand-in-hand, whether in the good way or not. This year, in my household, something has got to be done. Not that I haven't been trying. The Daughter starts in to her school here in the next 2 weeks (or just under) and the bills for that have started in. Things were strapped a bit before, since I have not been working, and now they have just gotten tighter. I have begun to more actively search for a job. I even signed up with a placement agency, though I am leery of them. Couldn't exactly say why, just have this 'feeling'. Not much is out there for me as this week's search - unless I had some kind of degree, which I don't. Sigh. But, my hopes are not dashed... yet.
So, basically, though I am 'looking down the drain' at this year starting off on such a great note, at least I am only looking, and not falling. Wow, a pessimist actually being positive.... weird.
How's your new yer going?
And did I mention, 13 is my favorite number?
PeacE
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Friday, January 13
Thursday, December 29
A-Parent-ly Bad
As a parent, there are a trillion and one things I do not understand about kids, even having been one myself. It seems I am finding more and more of them just plain outright irritate me to no end, and are being displayed/acted upon by my kids. The oldest son went with the Daughter back to Tucson for a few days, and will be returning for New Years. I would think that would make things easier managing the boys while they are on break. Heh. Teach me to think.
Yesterday was an okay day. They spent the better part of it watching YouTube videos and actually getting along. Today, as soon as they are both up, it is constant bickering at each other. Needless to say, my patience is worn thin.
They have a week plus yet to go before school starts back up. Sigh.
The Wife got off work early yesterday, and we took advantage of it to do some family activity together. We went out to eat at 5 & Diner ('50s style restaurant) followed by an early evening movie of 'The Adventures of Tin Tin" which the boys really enjoyed (they are 9 & 5). I completed the evening by heading to bed with my Kindle, and a crossword book.
I guess if you are like the seemingly mass population, you should be debating what sort of New Year resolutions you should make, then break during the first week. I guess a couple years ago, the family (meaning RM and Sis) started having us pen down those resolutions. Sis would save them for the year in sealed envelopes, and at the next NY lunch, would pass them out for everyone to see if they made it. I think mine last year was to not make any resolutions. Can't remember for sure. I just know I am not doing it this year. No since in deflating my hope at the beginning of next year. If there is a next year.
I am thinking of personal things I would like to accomplish over the next year, and I may even share some of them.... but not before the big day!
PeacE
Yesterday was an okay day. They spent the better part of it watching YouTube videos and actually getting along. Today, as soon as they are both up, it is constant bickering at each other. Needless to say, my patience is worn thin.
They have a week plus yet to go before school starts back up. Sigh.
The Wife got off work early yesterday, and we took advantage of it to do some family activity together. We went out to eat at 5 & Diner ('50s style restaurant) followed by an early evening movie of 'The Adventures of Tin Tin" which the boys really enjoyed (they are 9 & 5). I completed the evening by heading to bed with my Kindle, and a crossword book.
I guess if you are like the seemingly mass population, you should be debating what sort of New Year resolutions you should make, then break during the first week. I guess a couple years ago, the family (meaning RM and Sis) started having us pen down those resolutions. Sis would save them for the year in sealed envelopes, and at the next NY lunch, would pass them out for everyone to see if they made it. I think mine last year was to not make any resolutions. Can't remember for sure. I just know I am not doing it this year. No since in deflating my hope at the beginning of next year. If there is a next year.
I am thinking of personal things I would like to accomplish over the next year, and I may even share some of them.... but not before the big day!
PeacE
Thursday, January 1
Resolutions - BTW that means I lie
For the first post of the 2009 year, I find myself in a place that is not my home. Fortunately, anyone that could give a hit is asleep, and some of the very loudly sawing logs, but for the most part asleep. I think I found 2 younger children still awake playing some online game ( I think World of Warcraft, but I could be mistaken). At least I had my kids ... oh, let's not be petty starting out the new year.
Yes, we had a wonderful evening at my Sis's. The older children, plus myself, stayed the night. I think it had something to do with the Jack Daniels, but who am I to place the blame anywhere?
So, it is the start of a New Year, shall we talk about resolutions. Oh yes please. I hear you screaming it out. Let his be the same as mine, let us fail them all together, and share the excuses. That is me. Excuse central. I am too literal, too well-read, too much the better spoken, that my excuses fall like water on a duck's back when I throw them out. The family goes, uh-huh. OK. Not even sure of what I am throwing out. Thank goodness for library cards to build the vocabulary to do that. Now if I could impress other people....heh!
Seriously, now though. Resolutions for the new year. What is a resolution? I took the time (hell, I have a whole year's worth to do it now) and looked it up. The book available to me was the Second College edition of the American Heritage Dictionary, published in 1985. The word "resolution" consisted of 9 separate explanations, the 9th having actually an a) and a b). I went so far as to go to dictionary.com, and here is there definition:
res⋅o⋅lu⋅tion /ˌrɛzəˈluʃən/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [rez-uh-loo-shuhn] Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. a formal expression of opinion or intention made, usually after voting, by a formal organization, a legislature, a club, or other group.
2. a resolve or determination: to make a firm resolution to do something.
3. the act of resolving or determining upon an action or course of action, method, procedure, etc.
4. the mental state or quality of being resolved or resolute; firmness of purpose.
5. the act or process of resolving or separating into constituent or elementary parts.
6. the resulting state.
7. Optics. the act, process, or capability of distinguishing between two separate but adjacent objects or sources of light or between two nearly equal wavelengths.
8. a solution, accommodation, or settling of a problem, controversy, etc.
9. Music.
a. the progression of a voice part or of the harmony as a whole from a dissonance to a consonance.
b. the tone or chord to which a dissonance is resolved.
10. reduction to a simpler form; conversion.
11. Medicine/Medical. the reduction or disappearance of a swelling or inflammation without suppuration.
12. the degree of sharpness of a computer-generated image as measured by the number of dots per linear inch in a hard-copy printout or the number of pixels across and down on a display screen.
As you can see, between 1985 and the spread of the internet, there have even been more definition to the definition. When it comes to speaking about a New Years resolution, I think the item as #2 suffices, from both standards.
The act of resolving to do something.
I am going to lose weight. I am going to go after that promotion I should have had. I am going to tear up this town in marketing my product. I am going to be that better person. I am... I am... I am.
New year. New starts in life. That's someone's good marketing. It's been around as long as I can remember, and I am younger than some....only been here since 1971. But this time of year I always hear the same rigamorale - is that a word? I am too lazy to look it up again. Actually, it was only three pages away, and I had to add the 'e' at the end to make it spelled properly. So, we have no idea who started the trend about 'making new fresh starts in a new year, but I think we all agree, it sure sounds like a good time to do them, eh?
Unless your company's fiscal year ends/starts like September or something. Then it sounds like too late to do much good. That is a whole 'nother bit of hot shit I wanna stir up later this month - be prepared.
So, in the meantime, you wanna set goals for self-improvement, for bettering yourself financially, for making the world a better place.... I am not going to stop you. I encourage you. I stand behind you in this literary sense, and commend you, yea, support you, in these endeavors. For as I see it, nothing is killing this world more, than natural HATE, and IGNORANCE, and lack of anyone wanting to make a difference.
You are still with me? And how do WE make that difference? Let me tell you ..... I have no clue. But, I bet if each morning, as you go to your car, or in the door to work, and you tell some one "hello" that you normally just glare at; or say, shovel off half the walk of the ones next door; or some other act of general kindness - even outside the damn Christmas holiday.... hell, everyone is nice thinking Santa is coming to town..... but outside the conventional time that holidays set... who the hell knows what can happen.
Me? Yeah, I got my resolutions. I am selfish. It is hard to get over that, just because I am so great. Hey, had to throw a joke in there somewhere.... seriously, myself.... My goals - something I am resolving myself to do - strengthening my family ties; controlling outworldly desires (basically, quit drinking so much); and lastly, this will fall into place with some of the other things, but take better care of the body, so I can last to do more of the family stuff.
Yeah. Lotta tough stuff on my list. At least for me. Can I resolve to do it? I dunno. But a fresh year, maybe I can mark it as a fresh start. I don't have a fiscal time... it is now or never.
How much time you have?
Love y'all! Happy New Year. Look forward to seeing ya again!
PeacE
Yes, we had a wonderful evening at my Sis's. The older children, plus myself, stayed the night. I think it had something to do with the Jack Daniels, but who am I to place the blame anywhere?
So, it is the start of a New Year, shall we talk about resolutions. Oh yes please. I hear you screaming it out. Let his be the same as mine, let us fail them all together, and share the excuses. That is me. Excuse central. I am too literal, too well-read, too much the better spoken, that my excuses fall like water on a duck's back when I throw them out. The family goes, uh-huh. OK. Not even sure of what I am throwing out. Thank goodness for library cards to build the vocabulary to do that. Now if I could impress other people....heh!
Seriously, now though. Resolutions for the new year. What is a resolution? I took the time (hell, I have a whole year's worth to do it now) and looked it up. The book available to me was the Second College edition of the American Heritage Dictionary, published in 1985. The word "resolution" consisted of 9 separate explanations, the 9th having actually an a) and a b). I went so far as to go to dictionary.com, and here is there definition:
res⋅o⋅lu⋅tion /ˌrɛzəˈluʃən/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [rez-uh-loo-shuhn] Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. a formal expression of opinion or intention made, usually after voting, by a formal organization, a legislature, a club, or other group.
2. a resolve or determination: to make a firm resolution to do something.
3. the act of resolving or determining upon an action or course of action, method, procedure, etc.
4. the mental state or quality of being resolved or resolute; firmness of purpose.
5. the act or process of resolving or separating into constituent or elementary parts.
6. the resulting state.
7. Optics. the act, process, or capability of distinguishing between two separate but adjacent objects or sources of light or between two nearly equal wavelengths.
8. a solution, accommodation, or settling of a problem, controversy, etc.
9. Music.
a. the progression of a voice part or of the harmony as a whole from a dissonance to a consonance.
b. the tone or chord to which a dissonance is resolved.
10. reduction to a simpler form; conversion.
11. Medicine/Medical. the reduction or disappearance of a swelling or inflammation without suppuration.
12. the degree of sharpness of a computer-generated image as measured by the number of dots per linear inch in a hard-copy printout or the number of pixels across and down on a display screen.
As you can see, between 1985 and the spread of the internet, there have even been more definition to the definition. When it comes to speaking about a New Years resolution, I think the item as #2 suffices, from both standards.
The act of resolving to do something.
I am going to lose weight. I am going to go after that promotion I should have had. I am going to tear up this town in marketing my product. I am going to be that better person. I am... I am... I am.
New year. New starts in life. That's someone's good marketing. It's been around as long as I can remember, and I am younger than some....only been here since 1971. But this time of year I always hear the same rigamorale - is that a word? I am too lazy to look it up again. Actually, it was only three pages away, and I had to add the 'e' at the end to make it spelled properly. So, we have no idea who started the trend about 'making new fresh starts in a new year, but I think we all agree, it sure sounds like a good time to do them, eh?
Unless your company's fiscal year ends/starts like September or something. Then it sounds like too late to do much good. That is a whole 'nother bit of hot shit I wanna stir up later this month - be prepared.
So, in the meantime, you wanna set goals for self-improvement, for bettering yourself financially, for making the world a better place.... I am not going to stop you. I encourage you. I stand behind you in this literary sense, and commend you, yea, support you, in these endeavors. For as I see it, nothing is killing this world more, than natural HATE, and IGNORANCE, and lack of anyone wanting to make a difference.
You are still with me? And how do WE make that difference? Let me tell you ..... I have no clue. But, I bet if each morning, as you go to your car, or in the door to work, and you tell some one "hello" that you normally just glare at; or say, shovel off half the walk of the ones next door; or some other act of general kindness - even outside the damn Christmas holiday.... hell, everyone is nice thinking Santa is coming to town..... but outside the conventional time that holidays set... who the hell knows what can happen.
Me? Yeah, I got my resolutions. I am selfish. It is hard to get over that, just because I am so great. Hey, had to throw a joke in there somewhere.... seriously, myself.... My goals - something I am resolving myself to do - strengthening my family ties; controlling outworldly desires (basically, quit drinking so much); and lastly, this will fall into place with some of the other things, but take better care of the body, so I can last to do more of the family stuff.
Yeah. Lotta tough stuff on my list. At least for me. Can I resolve to do it? I dunno. But a fresh year, maybe I can mark it as a fresh start. I don't have a fiscal time... it is now or never.
How much time you have?
Love y'all! Happy New Year. Look forward to seeing ya again!
PeacE
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