What is your DU New Year's Resolution?

[EFerrari]

Mine is to abstain from Clinton threads, Chavez threads and immigration threads for the ENTIRE MONTH OF JANUARY. :hi:







lol

Happy New Year, DU!

:evilgrin:

[swag]

1. To support the Democratic nominee for President

and to help Oregon eject Gordon Smith from the US Senate.

[EFerrari]

3. Let us know how we can help!

[swag]

7. Wow, nice ejector seat!

As soon as we know if the Dem Challenger is Steve Novick or Jeff Merkley, I'm sure the Oregonians will be shooting up some flares.

Let us know what races are most critical to you too!

[EFerrari]

9. Since Feinstein and Pelosi are very senior, there's no movement there.

But, we will be needing some help preventing the Republics from changing the way our electoral votes are apportioned. They are DETERMINED to steal CA and are still gathering signature to put their measure on our ballot.

[Individualist]

2. Same as it is every year

I resolve not to make New Year's resolutions.

[EFerrari]

5. Don't think about making a New Year's resolution.

:)

[Missy Vixen]

4. Make out more

It's much more fun than the usual, isn't it?

Julie

[EFerrari]

6. Define "usual".

:)

:hi:

[MrMickeysMom]

8. Mine's to attend every local city council meeting, following local issues and

finding someone who has video Skype. I can't believe how easy it is to have 2 way video and audio. Can you IMAGINE how we could use this? I'm not talking YouTube, where my alter ego would be lured, but talking across the world about what matters!

HAPPY DU YEAR!!!

MMM

[EFerrari]

12. Local ROCKS, MrMickeysMom!

Happy DU Year to you and your family. :)

[MrMickeysMom]

22. Same back at ya, sfexpat2000!

I hope to read and participate to DU more during this upcoming crazy 2008 election year!

:hi:

[The Straight Story]

10. I won't post in the nude anymore

:)

[EFerrari]

14. I said "resolution" not threat.

lol

:)

[TahitiNut]

45. ... or any less?

:dunce:

[EFerrari]

55. We need a naked peanut gallery.

To be inclusive.

Happy New Year, my friend.

:dunce:

[H2O Man]

11. To find an open spring

during the winter cold.

[EFerrari]

15. It looks like a bear has been making "angels" in the snow.

:hi:

[tekisui]

62. Hold yourself to that one, H2O Man.

It adds years to your life.


Quality years!

[Solly Mack]

13. I'll behave for the first half hour of the New Year

[EFerrari]

16. Given the time difference, tell us when that is for you

so we can set our watches.

:rofl:

[Solly Mack]

20. hehehehehehe

That was my loophole! LMAO

[EFerrari]

24. I know it is. I'm a retired mom. I can spot a loophole

through a wall, around a corner and down the hall.

lol

:toast:

[Sugar Smack]

17. To stop reacting and start acting.

Happy New Year to you, too!!:pals: :toast:

[EFerrari]

18. You don't fool around, do you?

:loveya:

:toast:

[Sugar Smack]

39. I won't, starting tomorrow.

:D :toast: :rofl: :loveya:

[EV_Ares]

19. To work on my shortcomings & be an even better person in 2008

Doesn't mean I am a bad person by any means but I always can find ways I can improve myself in many ways. Also, to read more and I have started buying books in audio and have found can get them read quicker as can listen while working out at the gym & other places.

Nothing drastic.

Wish the best to you sfexpat; you have a very happy, healthy, prosperous & great New Year.

"I think that every human being has an innate sense of "I". We cannot explain why that feeling is there, but it is. Along with it comes a desire for happiness and a wish to overcome suffering. This is quite justified: we have a natural right to achieve as much happiness as possible, and we also have a right to overcome suffering. The whole of human history has developed on the basis of this feeling. In fact, it is not limited to human beings; from the Buddhist point of view, even the tiniest insect has this feeling and, according to its capacity, is trying to gain some happiness and avoid unhappy situations."

The Dalai Lama

[EFerrari]

21. The first two audio books I bought were one of Gore Vidal's

and one of the Dalai Lama's.

Peace in 2008.

[EV_Ares]

28. Really, my first one was Obama's but when you get time, let me know

which one of the Dalai Lama's you listened to. I have Fair Game right now I am still listening to, still read but timewise as you probably know the audio really helps.

[EFerrari]

44. I really enjoy hearing a voice. As a reading addict, it's a nice

plus to hear someone speaking. :)

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

23. To lighten up,...a LOT.

:rofl:

I don't want to take anything, personally, anymore. It's just too,...aggravating.

[EFerrari]

30. That's a great one! And, there seems to be a handbook!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

25. To become even more cynical about the value of politics or politicians.

Given the current crop of politicians and their self-serving antics, I expect to keep the resolution with ease.

[EFerrari]

31. Do you need any special equipment for that? January sales are ongoing.

:)

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

51. Strong Russian Tea, an edtiion of "Catch-22", and Bach in the background.

Always seems to put things in perspective for me.

Plus a little reminder of how terribly significant what we do, think, feel, etc, is in the grand scheme of the cosmos.



Picture taken of earth from Voyager II

[EFerrari]

52. Provide, Provide. (A self important soup)

The witch that came (the withered hag)
To wash the steps with pail and rag,
Was once the beauty Abishag,

The picture pride of Hollywood.
Too many fall from great and good
For you to doubt the likelihood.

Die early and avoid the fate.
Or if predestined to die late,
Make up your mind to die in state.

Make the whole stock exchange your own!
If need be occupy a throne,
Where nobody can call you crone.

Some have relied on what they knew;
Others on simply being true.
What worked for them might work for you.

No memory of having starred
Atones for later disregard,
Or keeps the end from being hard.

Better to go down dignified
With boughten friendship at your side
Than none at all. Provide, provide!

-- Robert Frost

[OneGrassRoot]

26. Staying away from GD/P....

with that done, I'm sure more delightful and inspiring resolutions will make their way to my consciousness!

:toast:

Happy New Year to you and everyone else at DU :party:

[EFerrari]

32. Hanging onto our frontal lobes!

Love it!

lol

:party:

[AlCzervik]

27. to get even more enjoyment out of the Clinton Vs. Obama flame wars.

times running out.

[EFerrari]

33. We need action figures and a ring!

(One Christmas, I screamed at my husband, "Look! I found HULK HOGAN!" and all the PC parents in the store moved a little away from me. lol)

/oops -- they don't want me to use that one.

[Breeze54]

29. To not have a DU resolution! LOL!

No, seriously, I guess mine would be to spend less time here. It's addictive! :P





:rofl:

[EFerrari]

34. Where is the damn camera?

lol

:rofl:

[Breeze54]

35. lmao! He,he!

:P

[Le Taz Hot]

40. OK, I have to

:applause: . And I thought MY area was a disaster area. Congratulations, that is most magnificent. :rofl:

[EFerrari]

36. kick

[The Straight Story]

37. Resolution: To kick your threads

KICK :)

[EFerrari]

38. Lol!

You know I was thinking of you when I came up with mine. ;)

[The Straight Story]

41. Not to comment on superbowl ads....

I am still pulling pieces of Snickers out of my ass :)

[Le Taz Hot]

42. Seriously.

Lose weight. I went to my doctor's a few weeks back and they weighed me. I didn't want them to weigh me but they weighed me anyway. I screamed. Literally. :wow:

[EFerrari]

43. Oh, me too. Given this economy, it won't be very hard.

Happy New Year, Le Taz Hot. :hi:

[Le Taz Hot]

47. And to you too,

my friend. :hi: :toast:

[Mika]

46. To see how many admin warnings I can get in January..

..for certain types of responses on the Cuba threads. ;)

Happy NY :toast:



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[EFerrari]

48. Feliz Ano!

:toast:



:hug:

[JitterbugPerfume]

49. to be credit card free

or at least credit card managable

I just paid one off, and the other one is not to awful!

[EFerrari]

50. That's great.

Good for you!

:toast:

[JuniperLea]

53. Spend less time here, more time IRL... eom

[EFerrari]

54. A long time ago, Skinner said the secret of DU was that we didn't do anything.

I think he must have been joking because DU does SO much. We are funders and writers and animators and artists and active citizens that hold our representatives to account. We are working people and activists and knitters of family and community and analysts of spun media.

Do you have any doubt that the other side wouldn't like us to just shut up, stop talking to each other and power down?

Let's deny the other side their wish.

Happy New Year, Juniperx.

:)

[JuniperLea]

58. Happy New Year, sfexpat2000!

They'd freak out if we shut up:)

I think we should start threads daily about how we have sock puppets on "the other side" and how stupid they all are over there... they are so stupid we wouldn't really have to go there and harass them or anything, just say we did. hehe! Reminds me of something my mom used to say when I'd tell her let's do that or this... she'd say, let's not and say we did:)

Frankly, I don't have enough self control to stop posting here altogether, I just feel like I need more sunlight in my life. I don't post on weekends going on about six months now. Maybe I should be satisfied with that as a baby step:)

[EFerrari]

59. Baby steps are highly underrated, my friend.

:toast:

[EFerrari]

56. Have to go walk the puppy. And while I still can say this

Hugo is a SAINT! OPEN THE BORDERS! And, go ABH!

lol

:)

[JeffR]

57. Scrapping the DUzy Awards & starting the DUmed Awards

"We'll never be able to beat a Keyes/Hunter ticket."

"Why I cannot vote for any Democrat except myself."

"I'm concerned about stuff. And things!"

"This Bloomberg guy is absolutely right."

[EFerrari]

60. Hillary has hair!

:wow:

OBAMA IS A MAN! :wow:

JOHN EDWARDS IS MARRIED! :wow:

:rofl:

[EFerrari]

61. kick