NEW YEARS RULIN'S (And Happy Holidays)
December 20, 2011 - 10:53am
1. WORK MORE AND BETTER
2. WORK BY A SCHEDULE
3. WASH TEETH IF ANY
4. SHAVE
5. TAKE BATH
6. EAT GOOD - FRUIT - VEGETABLES - MILK
7. DRINK VERY SCANT IF ANY
8. WRITE A SONG A DAY
9. WEAR CLEAN CLOTHES - LOOK GOOD
10. SHINE SHOES
11. CHANGE SOCKS
12. CHANGE BED CLOTHES OFTEN
13. READ LOTS GOOD BOOKS
14. LISTEN TO RADIO A LOT
15. LEARN PEOPLE BETTER
16. KEEP RANCHO CLEAN
17. DON’T GET LONESOME
18. STAY GLAD
19. KEEP HOPING MACHINE RUNNING
20. DREAM GOOD
21. BANK ALL EXTRA MONEY
22. SAVE DOUGH
23. HAVE COMPANY BUT DON’T WASTE TIME
24. SEND MARY AND KIDS MONEY
25. PLAY AND SING GOOD
26. DANCE BETTER
27. HELP WIN WAR - BEAT FASCISM
28. LOVE MAMA
29. LOVE PAPA
30. LOVE PETE
31. LOVE EVERYBODY
32. MAKE UP YOUR MIND
33. WAKE UP AND FIGHT
2. WORK BY A SCHEDULE
3. WASH TEETH IF ANY
4. SHAVE
5. TAKE BATH
6. EAT GOOD - FRUIT - VEGETABLES - MILK
7. DRINK VERY SCANT IF ANY
8. WRITE A SONG A DAY
9. WEAR CLEAN CLOTHES - LOOK GOOD
10. SHINE SHOES
11. CHANGE SOCKS
12. CHANGE BED CLOTHES OFTEN
13. READ LOTS GOOD BOOKS
14. LISTEN TO RADIO A LOT
15. LEARN PEOPLE BETTER
16. KEEP RANCHO CLEAN
17. DON’T GET LONESOME
18. STAY GLAD
19. KEEP HOPING MACHINE RUNNING
20. DREAM GOOD
21. BANK ALL EXTRA MONEY
22. SAVE DOUGH
23. HAVE COMPANY BUT DON’T WASTE TIME
24. SEND MARY AND KIDS MONEY
25. PLAY AND SING GOOD
26. DANCE BETTER
27. HELP WIN WAR - BEAT FASCISM
28. LOVE MAMA
29. LOVE PAPA
30. LOVE PETE
31. LOVE EVERYBODY
32. MAKE UP YOUR MIND
33. WAKE UP AND FIGHT
Happy holidays, babble!
So, good ol' oldgoat will be taking over for Rebecca West and me for a bit, starting this Friday, as we hightail it for some Carribbean principality and take an ill-deserved break. But between you and me, I'll be phoning it in until then. So with Hanukkah starting tonight and all, let holiday cheer reign.
It's also the eve of the Solstice. Happy holidays!
(I don't know why, but #9 on his list made me kind of sad. When you're poor, something like wearing clean, nice clothes is a big deal.)
Enjoy!!! Read lots good books, and drink very scant if any!!
PS: The SAQ doesn't carry scant. Anyone know where I can get a few bottles?
One resolution for 2012: lose 15lbs.
Last year it was smoking. The unopened bottle of Champix still sits in a cabinet above the refrigerator, where I had left it last January after reading the pamphlet that came with the box. This year in the place of trying to give up on something I thought instead, and with the full acknowledgement of certain ramifications, to putting more effort into excavating and exhuming classical politics.
Cripes. This is the last time I admit in public that I'll be "phoning it in all week." What a shitstorm!
RULIN'S #31. LOVE EVERYBODY
So Happy Christmas. I love you baby.Thansk for sharing that list from Woody. I think I will have to make one of my own; it will have to be shorter, of course, as I'm not capable of as many great deeds as Woodrow Wilson Guthrie.
I just noticed that this is a favorite of ... Noddy Holder! Noddy Holder! OMFG! I saw Slade play in Nanaimo in some antediluvian past of mine, with earplugs and earmuffs from the mill where I worked, and was able to stand directly in front of the speakers without any hearing loss, which was a great place to stand if you could, and I think Slade cracked the cement they were so loud,
and the earth was younger,
I think,
or at least I was,
and that's all that matters.
lol.
Hey all. I guess this is the Merry Christmas thread, right? I actually really like Christmas because I try not to stress about it too much.
We're having a nice, quiet evening at home tonight and exchanging gifts tomorrow morning. I think this is the first year I've ever just spent Christmas at home, without visiting my family. But it's okay - we'll see them the first week of January (when my kid is with us), and we're having a really nice time just hanging out, listening to music, relaxing, etc.
I just made a batch of "homemade Baileys" that someone gave me a recipe for last week. It doesn't taste exactly like it, of course, but my initial taste seemed very nice. It's cooling in the fridge because we like creme liqueurs very cold. We also got some yummy overpriced cheese that we can have with a bottle of wine from Prince Edward County tonight.
No meals planned; we'll probably just go out for a bite tomorrow night if something is open. If not, we'll figure something simple out here or order in. Maybe I'll just make spaghetti. :)
Merry Christmas!
Enjoy your Christmas weekend, Michelle. We've got Seasons 3-4 of The Wire lined up. YIPPEE!
Oooh, sounds good! I haven't seen any episodes of that, actually. Everyone keeps telling me to watch it. We have, however, watched all the seasons of Battlestar Galactica (his choice) and Babylon 5 (my choice). We got each other hooked on them. :)
You enjoy your weekend too, laine lowe. :) We were thinking of going to this movie tonight, but we're both feeling lazy so we probably won't bother. We just ordered in Thai food for supper and had a feast - and now we're relaxing with our Christmas "spirits" and finding songs on YouTube and playing them.
Windchill of -35C going to hit us soon, already it's -29C; hardly any snow yet, but we'll start getting some Monday, hopefully. I'm trying to stay awake to go to a late night service here. I must admit I'm not fond of services so late at night when it's this cold. The community held its annual 'Santa arrives' celebration for the kids at 730, but I'm not going out right in the cold after I had a shower after supper. Besides, I can't hear anything in the gymnasium. I have most of my lost hearing back, but it wasn't all that great to begin with. Barely heard the choir last night. But I never miss church - wouldn't look good for a former Mob hit man to skip out on church, now, would it?
Have some gifts to unwrap after the service, and have a tray of Christmas goodies to start on - Christmas cake (dark), shortbread cookies, and dinner rolls - all homemade. This is a swell community - it's small (less than 100 people), but we look out for one another. Wishing you all the best!
Visited the neighbour psychiatrist, health nut but also fond of single malt scotch. 56% and 23 years old. woo hoo. Did a hike this afternoon up Mt. XYZ, took about 40 min to the first peak. Got above the fog which is now rolling in like you would not believe. I think we're going to get a pea soup that no one will be able to see through.
I've got my copy of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which I am supposed to read for the babble book club, but I am sipping here and there, chit chat with friends and if I can get 50 pages done tonight I will be happy. Might watch the film version of Dylan Thomas's A Child's Christmas in Wales, or read it instead, as I have recently re-discovered that I can read something faster than I can watch it.
Here at the ragged edge of the world the fog is rolling in like the snow that is not here. It will have to do.
I think it's been a year of great struggle, the good guys (that's us!) have found a new strength, and I think that this will make me better too. Woody's list from 1942 has been on my mind all day, and I am working on my own version. Thanks Woody!
ieychd da! to babbler friends and to all a wonderful holiday.
For Christmas, I gave myself the book 200 Pie Recipes.
I expect to be in the kitchen a lot in 2012.
Merry Christmas, Boom Boom and ikosmos. :)
Very nice! I gave myself this book for Christmas. Well, truth be told, I just bought it on impulse because I wanted it, a week and a half before Christmas. :)
I see Indian food in our future!
ikosmos, I also got The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. I've been meaning to read it and keep forgetting, but I've enjoyed the first few pages. Another thing I plan to do while on my vacation for the next couple of weeks, so I can participate in the babble book club!
I always wake up earlier than RR on weekends, and today is no exception. So I'm passing the time surfing online until he wakes up. I feel like a kid. Presents under the tree just waiting to be opened, but I have to wait until he wakes up! Maybe I'll make coffee (which I don't drink). The smell of it just might wake him up... :)
We're doing what Jews do on Christmas. Watching lots of movies then eating Chinese food.
That's what I'm doing today Mr. Tea.
Anyway, Merry Christmas to everyone, hope you all have a great day, and now I'm going for a nap.
Mr. Tea, that's exactly what we were thinking about doing today! :)
We don't have any Christmas dinner planned, so we might just wander on down to Chinatown and see if any restaurants are open around dinnertime. Or maybe I'll just whip up a nice batch of spaghetti, crack a bottle of wine to drink with it, and make yummy pesto garlic bread. Oh, and the overpriced cheese I mentioned a few posts back. We'll play it by ear.
I'm probably going to spend lots of time today digging into a bunch of books that I got for Christmas. I got the whole set of Lucy Maud Montgomery's journals (5 books in all - that should keep me busy for a while), a couple of cookbooks (a book of "everyday" Thai recipes, and a "World Vegetarian" cookbook by Madhur Jaffrey that seems as huge and comprehensive as The Joy of Cooking), an origami book, and a permaculture garden book that I love because it will help me dream about spring and all the yard work I'll probably never get around to doing. But hey, it's fun to dream!
I'm watching the George Harrison movie bio, Living In The Material World, both parts I and II. Awesome stuff, played through my powerful stereo. Then I'll get more firewood into the basement, then start cooking the big bird. I expect to have a bad headache at the end of the day.
We've got Season 4 of Breaking Bad all lined up but we're waiting for the kids to take their naps first. Nothing says Christmas like a drama about the crystal meth trade, I suppose.
And It's always been my Christmas Eve tradition to watch TSN's annual "year in sports show", so we did that last night. Though I drank a pumpkin-flavoured beer, so thats sorta in the spirit, I guess.
..have been going through the first season of "game of thrones"..an r.r. martin inspired show. i've also been through the 1936 "desire", the '66 "w. a. o. virginia woolf?" and the 2011 "hanna".
..it's been quite the year. a year that brought a ray of hope so that i can now look forward to the next. wishing all babblers a Happy New Year!!!!!
i've dug up a few past year-end hockey battles in preparation for some of the World Jr. Hockey Championships on right now. I watched the Habs V. Central Red Army (1975), World Jr Gold Medal Game (2005), and I have the Olympic Gold Medal Games (2002) to peek at. The VHS tapes are starting to degrade, mind you, and I will probably have to chuck them.
Listen and learn and co-operate.
I've got a few resolutions, mostly around money and food and sleep. It's amazing how everything is interconnected. Spending money on stupid crap food and eating out because it's convenient, which of course costs more than better, healthy food, which takes more time to prepare, time I don't have because I am wasting time staying up too late doing nothing productive and therefore getting up late in the morning, which means no time to eat breakfast or pack a lunch, which means buying it at work, taking a cab when I am too late to take the bus, which costs more money, which is less healthy because it involves less walking and fewer stairs, which I'm too tired to do anyhow because I stayed up too late the night before, which means I crash after work and don't feel like cooking, which means ordering in, eating out, or eating crap convenience food, which costs too much money and is less healthy...need I go on?
1. Go to bed on time at night.
2. Get up on time, and no getting lost in a book, puzzle, or internet in the morning - eat breakfast and pack lunch!
3. No more gratuitous taxis.
4. Try to follow this guideline for food (as opposed to the crappy corporate food lobby-inspired Canada's Food Guide or even worse USDA food guide), particularly the thing about how half of all your meals should be vegetables and fruit.
5. Leave credit card at home - no more Satan hiding in my purse.
I'm sure I'll last until at least January 10th. ;)
What the heck happened to winter? It's 2C here today, and the next 24 hours the forecast is for heavy rain and very strong wind. Normally we'd have two feet of snow on the ground, and temps ranging from -10C to -20C. We've had some very cold weather, but very little snow.
It moved to Oshawa. It actually SNOWED here! Oh the horror.
It's snowing in Toronto right now. Call the army!
I just made a batch of "homemade Baileys" that someone gave me a recipe for last week. It doesn't taste exactly like it, of course, but my initial taste seemed very nice.
I tried this too, this year, just looking up the recipe on the internet. Of course, first time I tried it, I was impatient and just wanted to see how close to it I could get with the ingredients I had. I only had a little cream and no condensed milk. So I substituted regular homo milk. Eww, right? It actually wasn't bad. I also didn't have almond extract, but I did have real vanilla extract, I had Hershey's chocolate syrup, Canadian whiskey, and I made a tiny little drip of coffee for the amount I was making.
Second time around I had more condensed milk than cream, but it definitely tastes better.
I was surprised that the main flavourings in Bailey's are chocolate and coffee because I don't taste that in the real Irish creams. I had thought there might in fact be a touch of mint, which is why I looked up the recipe in the first place, but I haven't seen any recipe calling for mint.
And does it really make a difference if you use Canadian rather than Irish whiskey?
Heck, I used Kentucky bourbon for mine! :D
And yeah, I was surprised to find that the recipe called for cocoa, vanilla, and coffee as well! Not to mention raw eggs.
I've decided that I will think less about solving my problems and spend more time ... solving my problems.
Carpe diem!
I like this version of the old classic.