WHAT IS YOUR NEW YEAR"S RESOLUTIONS

[Pumpkin56]

I had my niece over for New Years. We watched some Planet Earth and some hockey and then went to bed. Neither of us made it to midnight

I normally don't make resolutions but I think this year I'm going to try to work out more. I have an old injury from my soccer days as a teenager that has never stopped bothering me. I did find a workout though (ballet conditioning, of all things) that has seemed to make my ankle stronger and since I started doing it, it hasn't rolled on me once. We'll see if I can keep doing it though--I have a tendancy to get bored with work-outs and drop them after a few months. Fingers crossed!

[Pumpkin_Man]

Murf, the burning of the old calenders is not really a traditon in the traditional (pardon the pun) sense of the word. I keep 4 calenders in my house. One is held to my refrigerator with a magnate, and lists all my paydays for the year. Two of them are Catholic calenders, one hangs in my dining room along with the schedule of various church activities, and the other hangs in my living room right next to my screen. The fourth hangs on the wall by my telephone so if I get a call and some one wants me to check on a date for something, I don't have to set the phone down and run over to where there's a calender. It's primarily used for Studio O'Brien photo shoots. That sounds excessive, I realize, but it's just a habbit. Right after I light off my Traditional New Years fire crackers, I burn the old calenders so I don't get them confused with the new ones. I keep the new ones in one of my kitchen drawers so I don't burn them by mistake. I burn the old ones, and then I put up the new ones. So it's more of a house keeping habbit then a tradition to burn the old calenders.

Mike

[NeverMore]

Speaking of calendars, seems a couple of goof-balls from John Hopkins University are trying to introduce a new one. Everyone here will most likely hate it since it does away with October 31st. I'm just glad I live in the U.S., where we're slow to adopt such things. We still don't use the metric system after all.

http://gizmodo.com/5872482/what-if-your ... every-year

Here's the calendar... http://henry.pha.jhu.edu/ccct.calendar.html

I do like that it has an extra week between December and January every 5 to 7 years though. That would be cool.

[Pumpkin_Man]

That has to be the most STUPID idea I ever heard. It took centuries to develop the Gregorian calender. Now some weenie wants to change it for the sake of corporate gain. I say NO. I DO NOT WANT MY BIRTHDAY TO BE ON A TUESDAY EVERY YEAR. I ALSO DO NOT WANT CHRISTMAS TO BE ON THE SAME DAY EVERY YEAR! There are all kinds of movable feasts in the Catholic church, too. Lent and Easter, for instance are not always on the same date. Easter is supposed to be after the first full moon following the Vernal Equinox. This "brain storm" is doing to screw up the seasons and everything else. We may be celebrating Easter the same weekend as we celebrate Christmas if they go with that rediculous system.

I'm sorry, but who ever came up with that "great idea" should come up with one more "Great idea" and drop deat!

KEEP THE CALENDER TRADITIONAL!!!!!

Mike

[Li H'Sen Chang]

That has to be the most STUPID idea I ever heard. It took centuries to develop the Gregorian calender. Now some weenie wants to change it for the sake of corporate gain. I say NO. I DO NOT WANT MY BIRTHDAY TO BE ON A TUESDAY EVERY YEAR. I ALSO DO NOT WANT CHRISTMAS TO BE ON THE SAME DAY EVERY YEAR! There are all kinds of movable feasts in the Catholic church, too. Lent and Easter, for instance are not always on the same date. Easter is supposed to be after the first full moon following the Vernal Equinox. This "brain storm" is doing to screw up the seasons and everything else. We may be celebrating Easter the same weekend as we celebrate Christmas if they go with that rediculous system.

I'm sorry, but who ever came up with that "great idea" should come up with one more "Great idea" and drop deat!

KEEP THE CALENDER TRADITIONAL!!!!!

Mike

You very serious about calendar, Mike.

[jadewik]

My goals (I hate the word "resolution") for the year are to work on my scrapbooks. It'd be nice to finish my wedding book this year... before my 6th anniversary. Heh.

Rang in the New Year in New Orleans (I was asleep by midnight). As a Christmas gift, my 'rents took me and the hubby to the Big Easy. I've wanted to go there for a LONG time. Spent a week there and enjoyed all the lovely cemeteries and the rich history of the place. It was a much needed vacation. Now, I feel INVINCIBLE and ready to tackle 2012. It's certainly off to a better start already seeing as I'm not mending broken pipes both in and out of the house or dealing with punctured cat eyes or any of the Tom Foolery that happened at the start of last year.

What I want to know is-- who thinks there will be a December 23rd this year? =)
(That's a reference to the Mayan calendar, which ends on Dec 22nd, prompting the theory that the world will end on Dec 22, 2012.)

I hope everyone has a wonderful New Year! Celebrate it with some Halloween style!

[zoltan hound dracula]

My goals (I hate the word "resolution") for the year are to work on my scrapbooks. It'd be nice to finish my wedding book this year... before my 6th anniversary. Heh.

Rang in the New Year in New Orleans (I was asleep by midnight). As a Christmas gift, my 'rents took me and the hubby to the Big Easy. I've wanted to go there for a LONG time. Spent a week there and enjoyed all the lovely cemeteries and the rich history of the place. It was a much needed vacation. Now, I feel INVINCIBLE and ready to tackle 2012. It's certainly off to a better start already seeing as I'm not mending broken pipes both in and out of the house or dealing with punctured cat eyes or any of the Tom Foolery that happened at the start of last year.

What I want to know is-- who thinks there will be a December 23rd this year? =)
(That's a reference to the Mayan calendar, which ends on Dec 22nd, prompting the theory that the world will end on Dec 22, 2012.)

I hope everyone has a wonderful New Year! Celebrate it with some Halloween style!

hi jadewik,just got off phone from NASA,they said world safe in 2012

[NeverMore]

What I want to know is-- who thinks there will be a December 23rd this year? =)

I plan on partying hard on the 20th no matter what.

[Pumpkin_Man]

Chang, you're DARN TUTIN I'm serious about the calender. All of my life, and for countless hundreds of years, we've been using the Gregorian system, and IT WORKS!! There's an old saying: "If it aint broken, don't fix it." This 'new fangled' calender is going to louse up everything. Take Halloween, for instance. There won't be any more October 31st, so does that mean that Halloween will be on the 30th of Oct, or the 1st of Nov. Catholic tradition calls for Nov 1st to be All Saints Day, so already we have a problem. Perhaps they will come up with another new fangled notion to eliminate the celebration or observance of Halloween all together. Another problem is Christmas being on a Sunday every year. With Christmas on a weekend every year, business no longer have to give anyone the day off. The total death of that holiday, in other words. It will just be a special weekend, as will New Years Eve and Day. The most serious problem, however, is with the observance of Lent and Easter. Easter on the Catholic calender is a moveable feast, which allways falls on the first Sunday after the first Full Moon AFTER the vernal equinox. This new fangled fiasko will totaly screw that up, and alienate a billion Catholics world wide.

The entire purpose for this whole calender change is so that corporate weenies can make bigger proffits. IT will actualy be a huge ecconomic bennifit. To the very richest of the rich, not to us workins stiffs. We will be done out of our Christmas Holiday, we'll be done out of Easter, and very likely we'll be done out of Halloween.

I don't mean to rant on like this, but this is a VERY VERY BAD IDEA. Oh, and they also want to put EVERYBODY on 24 hour Military time, too. That means that you'll be getting up at O whatever hundred, and coming home from work at 0 1600 or 0 1700 or what ever. It will create MASSIVE confusion, MAJOR problems for all the clocks, watches and other devices that operate on the Standard 12 hour time and Gregorian Calender.

I'm sorry, but I hope this idiotic change in a most valuable TRADITION never happens, at least not within my life time.

Mike

[NeverMore]

Whoa! Sorry to get you so riled up Mike. Like I said, Americans still haven't adopted metric, there no chance we'll accept this.

Did you see the remark by theocanada in the comments section?

I'm on to these guys - they had a bad halloween one year and this has been their long simmering plan to get rid of it.

[witchy]

Okay I'm the odd man out, I am going to try to be nicer to people & not spend soo much money this year, ohhh and lose weight!!!

[Spookymufu]

I cant imagine getting any more perfect then I am now....

[Pumpkin_Man]

Witchy, you allways struck me as a very nice person. As for spending money, one must first have money before he or s he can spend. With two vehicles to pay off, having money is a bit of a quandry.

Sooky, RIGHT ON. As much as I love tradition, making New Years resolutions is one tradition that I never embraced, nor do I care to.

Nevermore, I apologize for ranting, but you are right. I did get a little riled up, mainly because this new fangled fiasko is a major threat to many of my beloved Catholic traditions that are tied into the gregorian calender. And since it is upsetting me so much, I think the best thing for me to do is to stop boring everyone else here with my ranting about it. You are right. The American people are not going to stand still for that, and this is my last post on the subuect.

Mike

[Li H'Sen Chang]

Witchy, you allways struck me as a very nice person. As for spending money, one must first have money before he or s he can spend. With two vehicles to pay off, having money is a bit of a quandry.

Sooky, RIGHT ON. As much as I love tradition, making New Years resolutions is one tradition that I never embraced, nor do I care to.

Nevermore, I apologize for ranting, but you are right. I did get a little riled up, mainly because this new fangled fiasko is a major threat to many of my beloved Catholic traditions that are tied into the gregorian calender. And since it is upsetting me so much, I think the best thing for me to do is to stop boring everyone else here with my ranting about it. You are right. The American people are not going to stand still for that, and this is my last post on the subuect.

Mike

What 2 cars you have Mike? I have 3 cars but 2 are paid for and the other one will be in 3 month.

[Pumpkin_Man]

I have a 2010 Mercury Milan which I bought brand new the Summer before last, and I have a 2008 Harley Davidson motorcycle which I bought used last Summer.

Mike