New Year’s resolutions: What’s yours?
I resolve…
…to cook more, exercise more, and keep my four-year-old from beating me at Wii tennis.
A reader at Tim Blair’s resolves to “to increase my carbon footprint to something resembling a small country.”
How about you?
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Mike Huckabee’s resolution: Run a sanctimoniously positive campaign…after he shows reporters his negative anti-Romney ad.
A suggested resolution for the Los Angeles Times: Resolve to make Patterico’s list shorter next year.
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To appreciate what God has blessed me with - family, friends, good health.
To wager a “war” on illegals in my state! I plan on becoming very active in my pursuit.
When asked this question, I go back to a “Haggar the Horrible” comic strip. When Haggar is asked about his New Years resolution, he responds:
“I resolve to eat as much as I want and drink as much as I want”
“What kind of resolution is that?”
“One I can keep”
Have a happy New Year all!
I resolve to keep all of the resolutions I set for myself throughout the year, not just on New Year’s.
I made my last “New Year’s” resolution when I was in Junior High School. I have kept it faithfully ever since as well. I resolved back then not to make any more New Year’s resolutions.
I don’t do New Year’s resolution’s. But I will say my plans for next year is to start a web site and sale my painting’s as limited edition prints, so when I do I’ll give you all the URL and you can check it out and maybe even purchase one if your interested.
Have a safe and Happy New Year’s Everyone and God bless you all.
Michelle,
For Tim Blair and it will also increase his fuel mileage looks like a win win to me.
Hehe….. thats good stuff!
My site for my paintings, sculpture and writing is under construction. I resolve to keep it up to date after it is complete.
I also promise myself that I will publish my book concerning ADD (hyperactivity was the word used when I taught) linked to the lack of art for our young people at the elementary level.
I’m going to strive to eat healthier, maybe lose a little weight and figure out how to sell carbon footprint credits to myself.
Oh, and win a nobel peace prize for committing universal fraud.
I wish you luck, Michelle. Cooking can be fun, and spending more time with the family doing that, is a great resolution. Beating a kid in wii tennis…well, you’re going to need lots of luck. They’re too fast for me.
to continue praying for the grace of a Pleasant Attitude.
May God’s Rain wash the Bird sht off of your front steps
May God’s Snow cover your unkempt garden
May God’s Wind blow the hair back from your face
May God’s Good Earth always be firm under your feet
May God’s Ways always be of interest to you even when seemingly illogical
May the Songs of God’s Birds be louder than your cell&head phones
& May there always be some small something in your everyday
that brings God to you
Great & Good Success for this New Year to ALL
Two of three will be good, though I’ll wager (as the inveterate gambler of this happy bunch) you could still beat Bryan at Wii tennis
I could be like most everybody and issue resolutions that I likely won’t keep (the cooking and exercising ones would apply to me), or I could go the Haggar route pointed out above by wrcnossen.
I resolve to make no resolutions. They cannot be kept.
Oh. Wait.
Happy New Year y’all!
I resolve Nuttin.
What do I want for 2008?
Peace on Earth. Good will toward men. That way I’d be out of a job.
My usual: I resolve not to make any New Year’s resolutions. Most people don’t have any likelihood of fulfilling or even remembering their resolutions past Jan 2 anyway.
To love America more.
How about this: Turn up at a code pink gathering with ‘poor impulse control’ written across my forehead and snarl savagely at them. Sounds productive. Oh wait, that’s their resolution for the last few years. Never mind.
I resolve to pray for my son’s success - he hopes to open his own restaurant. And to work harder at learning French. If I don’t “get it” this year, I think I’ll switch to Italian - at least it’s easier to pronounce.
I resolve to plug my ears before Hillary cackles.. There … That I can keep. HAPPY NEW NEW YEAR EVERYONE !!!!
I don’t really have any resolutions, per se. I just want to end up ‘08 alive and healthy…and my family the same.
Having quit smoking on Oct. 30 (emphysema), I resolve to keep my commitment and maybe live a few years longer.
And, as for the 30 pounds I’ve already gained (on my tine 5′0″ frame)… how do you lose weight when you eat stuff to keep from smoking?
Cook more and exercise more are ones I need to add to my list. I resolve to not be swayed by fancy recipes on Food Network that call for equipment and ingredients I don’t have, but experiment anyways with substitutions and have it turn out to be a disaster. I will also not buy chocolate almond biscotti or bar-b-que potato chips.
Join the club, leepro!
I need to lose about 20lbs of baby weight off of my 5′0″ frame.
I resolve to be more agreeable and keep my opinions to myself.
Nah, I’m just kidding. But as every year, I resolve to get completely out of debt including second mortgage and car payment. I think I’m going to do it this year because I figured out some pretty good money making tricks from the internet - I amaze even myself though it could be gone at any moment. Ah technology. . . the lazy man’s ticket to wealth and paradise!
I resolve to be more strident in my opposition to the status quo.
I also resolve to help others realize that a higher consciousness is not acquiring more stuff, traveling or being seen. It’s finding what we have in common as people, sharing a universal peace so everyone can be free of conflict, ego and the megalomaniacal aspects of our contemporary global culture. It’s about that which we all have in common, not who has more stuff.
I resolve to stop coming to this website when I am at work.
Wait, cancel that. Something easy. I know. I’m going to completely stop reading the New York Times when at work, at home, traveling etc..
No resolutions again this year except to love my wife and my children more. They always deserve more. Anyway, Happy New Year to all the bloggers here and, especially, to Michelle and her family.
Take up Cope or Skoal long-cut loose tobacco, you can’t eat while it’s in and you can’t spit it out cause you need the nicotine.
I’m down about 30% on my smoking because of it, may even get to 60% reduction in the near future, I love the stuff — thanks to the free coupons the mfgr sent me to induce me to try it.
I am in the need to lose weight group — I was doing well until early November, now instead of needing to lose a last 13 lbs I’m back to needing to lose 25 lbs. I have resolved to get it off and run a competitive 5k by October ‘08.
I also resolve to get refocused on my businesses - my mind and spirit have been wandering the last several months.
And lastly I resolve to finish the remodeling on my house I have been very slowly progressing on for the last 2 years.
Work, work leepro. I quit two years ago and I have to exercise at least 40 min
a day.
Christian Soldier…I used to teach a dance class and two little girls came to me.
One was supposed to be hopeless because of ADD and I was told to forget
even trying to teach her. I taught her. I kept her interested and busy and made
her mother turn off the tv set and give the child books to read. She really
wasn’t ADD, she just had a terribly short attention span because of tv and the
programs she watched that were always being interrupted by commercials….. therefore, her attention span wasn’t developed.
I do not make resolutions because I do better deciding to do something when and if the occasion or need arises rather than to work from a list.
I haven’t made a New Year’s resolution in years. I realized a long time ago I am a work in progress and have a very long way to go before getting were I need to be to find favor in God’s eyes.
To remember all the names of the traitors who sold me out on illegal immigration and vote against them when I can.
I am a petite little old lady. If you think I’m going to take up snuff or chew, you’re NUTS! Why would I want to resume nicotine intake, when I’ve reduced it to 0%?!!!?? It’s the nicotine that keeps you addicted. And I can’t envision myself carrying a “spit cup” everywhere I go!
Besides, “smokeless” tobacco is just as dangerous for cancer as the others! I know of people who have had to have parts of their face, mouth and throat removed because of cancer!
Thank you all for your responses. One of my problems is bad bones. Excruciating pain in back if on feet more than 10 minutes. Also both hips replaced, one of them twice (& deteriorating again). Can’t (not allowed to) do “rigorous” or weight-bearing exercise! Walking just doesn’t seem to do the trick…
I want to lose weight, (not saying how much, ’cause I’ll cry) cut back even further on my salt intake, and in general exercise more and get healthier.
How many of us here are about 5′? I think there’s three, counting me.
Here is one easy for me to keep. Do not vote for a Democrat.
leepro I know gaining weight is never a good thing, but I’m sure if you were a member of my family I’d much rather you be a little heavier instead of continuing to smoke. Good luck to you this year.
I would love to spend more quality time with my girls and get a lot done around my house before my husband returns from deployment.
I hope you all have a wonderful New Year!
I’m 5′2″, any little extra weight really shows.
Bear I will join you on not voting Dem.
Ah, I kinda figured my advice wouldn’t fly
Still, someone else that’s being unsuccessfull quitting smoking might find it worth a shot.
leepro…you may want to look into an exercise group that works out in a swimming pool. It is
much more forgiving of older bones. Also, and anyone laughs I will get you… anytime I
wanted something to eat (and knew it was just wanting something in place of a cigarette),
I would go brush my teeth. I never want to eat when I can still taste toothpaste. I also drink
water religiously because it takes the edge off. I taught an excercise class of very, very
elderly ladies (one was 92) once upon a time and a lot of exercises can be done sitting in a
straight back chair. There are also deep breathing exercises that help speed up your
metabolism. I’m 5′0″ and weigh more than feels comfortable to me, and I’m finding that
where once I had no trouble dropping weight..well, that’s definitely changed. You can try one thing that I do which is called square breathing. Inhale for a count of 4, hold the breathe for a count of 4, exhale for a count of 4 and hold the breath for a count of 4..
repeat. You can work up to longer counts as you become used to this. Really expand the
lungs and breathe so that your tummy expands when you inhale. When you exhale, make
certain that you really work to get all the breath out. It’s work, but it won’t hurt your joints. You can sit in the chair and do ab exercises by pulling your navel in toward your
spine and then pushing the abs back out.
See if any of this helps. Next time we’re posting at the same time, let me know how you
are doing.
This sounds a bit self-serving, but: my New Year’s resolution is to stop feeling sorry for myself and find a cure or treatment for my lung disease. I’m theoretically not supposed to survive 2008. We’ll see!
Happy New Year’s Eve, all!
No New Year’s resolutions here. I gave up making them years ago, as they never really worked that well for me.
I’m surprised bear can even type with umbrella drinks in both hands and his eyes poppin out of his head at the beach in Cabo…..
Resolution? nah, why mess with perfection… lol
Happy New Year Everyone!
Do a better job of picking my battles; do a better job of letting things go.
Focus more on the positive and don’t fret over things I can’t change.
Try TXRose’s square breathing, drink more water and cut way back on pop.
Don’t go to sleep at night without counting my blessings and saying thank you.
Happy New Year everyone. God bless you all. And a very special thank you to Michelle for all her hard work and for giving us all a place to meet.
My sister lived 7 years beyond what they predicted she would. Miracles do happen. I’ll say a prayer for you.
I only have one resolution this year and that is to find a new job, one that is right for my level of education and qualifications. I am tired of just getting by and I know that I would be a great addition to any employer that were to hire me.
Add my prayers to katieanne’s stonemeister. Our youngest had so many different
types of cancer in his body and I know that prayer is the reason that those cancers
were all dead when he was opened up. Okay, he did have chemo first, because
I didn’t want him to be cut on before chemo (you know, that little voice that you
hear occasionally called Mother Wit), but the prayers started before and continued
after the chemo.
Katieanne, the square breathing does help speed the metabolism. Most of us do
not breathe properly and I certainly didn’t after smoking. Had to learn all over again.
Mine are completely selfish so I apologize beforehand.
First,LOSE WEIGHT
second,get more involved in Fred Thompson Campaign
Mostly not lastly, Meet Dean Cain
Even though I think the fight may be lost in the long run, I resolve not to give in to the PC, leftist, liberal, whiny seditious traitorous odorous pusillanimous poor excuses for human beings that one encounters damn near everywhere nowadays, but to fight them with all my heart and mind and my every breath. This is my country and I aim to keep it!
I also resolve to finally buy that Ruger P345 .45 caliber pistol and a lifetime membership to the NRA I’ve been thinking about for so long, and to get a Tennessee carry permit.
I won’t call it a resolution, but I know one of the tasks I have for next year will take all my skill and as much luck.
We have to move an entire C-5A Galaxy flying wing from our current base to a completely new facility starting around September.
I’ve been working this project for almost four years and will see it come to fruition.
I just hope we can pull it off with no one getting hurt and everyone ends up with all the communications services they need.
Bear showed up! Missed ya bro.
Give up. When it comes to electronics - kids rule! Kids rule anyhow. No better way to spend time with the kids - doing what they like to do!
I resolve to get Bev started on the border fence. She can get ‘er done!
I resolve to walk with GOD more often and not have HIM wait for me to catch up.
Happy New Year to all of my new friends on MM.com (and you too AJ)!
I would like to resolve, if I could, to find a politician who would be willing to honestly and without an agenda live up to my George Eliot motto … What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
I resolve to:
1. Fight PC nonsense at every chance.
2. Fight folks who aid and abet the invasion from the south.
3. Support our troops and the war on terror.
4. Fight like mad to keep democraps from ruining America.
Cooking more for family and friends is always a joy. I think I’ll choose that one too.
I think it’s time to track down and talk with former team members and gather notes for a book about the events of late 1983 and 1984. Memories are fading.
Praying more is one I know I can do.
Happy New Year Michelle, family, commenters and readers. And May God Bless the USA!
I resolve to find a republican Jewish brunette who has her act together and is ready to bring kids into the world.
Oh yeah, after marriage of course.
Happy New Year all!
eric aka the Tygrrrr Express
Happy New Year one and all!!!! MM and everyone else with little ones…hug them,
enjoy them and remember, they grow up too fast.
Correction…I resolve to start the search for her on January 2nd. I resolve to sleep in as late as possible on the 1st to start the 2008 year relaxed.
eric
aka the Tygrrrr Express
My New Year’s resolution is to be the nicest, sweetest guy I can be.
I promise to be so sickeningly nice you people will be screaming within a week to bring back the old, curmudgeonly Rick.
I will kill you all with so much kindness that you will petition Michelle to order me to be mean to you guys again.
I will have you all begging for mercy shortly.
LOL, NOW THERE’S ONE SHORT LIVED RESOLUTION…
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Rick, can we start now? Pleeezzzzz ROFL
Happy New Year Bro!
If he’s going to be nice to us I pity his cat.
Rick has a CAT??? EWWWWWW No wonder he is going to change.
Get a dog, be a man!
I resolve to tune into MMdotcom everyday I’m near a computer with net capability. Unfortunately I’m going to a remote area of Thailand in a few weeks & will gone for almost a month. Happy New Year Michelle to you and all your family, friends & employees.
Thank you! And a very happy New Year to you and your family, too! I am very grateful to your husband and wish him the best of everything possible. May God bring him home safely!
Rick, I am off to a party, but before I leave…does anybody know any republican Jewish brunettes?
I can save myself a trip to the party altogether if one can be delivered to my home with Chinese food in the next hour.
If not, happy 2008 anyway. I will sleep in and watch the RU486 Morning After Bowl, or whatever the heck the Poulan Weed Eater Bowl used to be called.
eric
aka the Tygrrrr Express
HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL !!!
re: #43 TXRose
Thank you! What great advice! You sound like either an RN or a Physical Therapist (PTs are virtual saints! Every one of them!).
I’ve saved your post. I knew about the water, the breathing, and the brushing the teeth. My problem is, I’m not doing them. Will do better in 2008.
To live in the moment - not looking back on regrets or so focused on the future that I miss the present.
To talk less and pray more.
To tell my husband and my children every day that I love them.
Happy New Year!
OT - TXRose, how many sets of those square breathing exercises do you do daily? Do you just do it twice once a day?
I resolve not to vote for any libs.
There now that is one I know I will keep. Hehe.
Just came back and there was your question, Katieanne. I try to do a
minimum of 8 sets twice a day, but I’m higher than 4. At first, do whatever
is most comfortable for you and try not to do them too fast because there
is a thing called breath of fire that vocalists and dancers have to watch out
for. It’s a bummer!
leepro, I’m not a physical therapist. I was an accountant that raised an
asthmatic child. I’ve also been a dancer and have taught dance and
exercise classes in the evenings for my own exercise. I also developed some exercises for my elderly neighbor and a friend with health problems.
If either of you have any questions, go to Townhall.com and look up
Power of One Vote. You can leave your questions in the comment
section or your email if you would like to talk privately about whatever
exercises you are trying. Keep your chin up leepro. Its hard getting
started but once you take the first step it gets easier. Hey, I really don’t
like to work out and I hate to sweat! But I do it.
I know all about the back pain, I have half a joint missing on my right side. Ok you just happened to hit someone who know’s how to lose the weight, your walking that’s good, the body does not know you’ve worked out (walking) unless you walk at least 40 min., I see even 10 min. of standing is difficult, exercise is accumualtive, if you go for 4-10 min. walks a day that’s your 40 min. for the day, walking is best done everyday, if you lifted weights I would tell you to do that 30 min. every other day.
Eating when you quit smoking is usally out of bordem. I remind you that a diet is not something you do it’s what you eat. If you crave carbohydrates, sweet’s is usally the problem but you may be craving any type of carbohydrate, what this means is you have eaten to many carbs in your previous meal if that is the case this is what you need to do. 3 meal’s eaten per day should contain the following 40% carbs, 30% protien’s, 30% monunsaturated fat’s this sound’s all scientific but it’s actually easy your protien should be no larger than the palm of your hand, 2 palm sized serving’s of good carbohydrates ones that digest slowly in the system so the sugar produced does’nt over fill the liver before it’s burnt off, this is because if the liver fill’s with sugar any overflow so to speak will turn to fat because the body think’s it may need it for lean times, green beans, broccoli, most green vegetables are good with the exception of lettuce, potatoes and other starchy vegetables are not good. Monounsaturated fat’s are derived from connola oil, olive oil, peanut oil also nut’s are a good source, cooking in these oil’s should give you the amount you need or add a tablespoon to the food, you only need a few nut’s to get the required amount if you like nut’s that is if not cook in the oil’s I stated above. You need 2 small healthy snacks in between your meal’s that give you a balance of carbs, protien and fat protien bars are a good snack but look at the label and make sure it has a good balance. Drink 6 to 8 ounce glasses of water a day the fat is dispossed of in your waste so this is imperitive that you drink water. Take a good multi vitamin daily, the way you can tell if the vitamin’s you are takin are any good is to put one in a glass of water and if it dissolves in a reasonable amout of time about 15 min. or so that’s a good vitamin, the body need’s these to burn the fat. The body will respond to your change in diet pretty quickley but atleast the first 8 to 10 pound’s lost is water don’t get discouraged if you stop losing wieght just keep following this, remember muscle weighs more than fat and as you walk you will gain muscle in the body so you may notice some dramatic weight loss at first then you may start gaining again. The best indicator is the way you look not how much you weigh if you weigh 300 lbs. and look incredible who cares how much you weigh. I hope I’ve helped in some small way the rest is up to you and I know you can do it I’ve known many people that have followed what I’ve told them and are very happy with their result’s. Good Luck and God Bless You.
Thank you for your help blind_mule. 6 small meals a day are good because that keeps the metabolism up. Soft drinks are bad (even diet)
because they are sweet and make you want more and more sweets.
If you leave the table before you are completely full, you will find that you
will if not lose weight, be less likely to gain weight. One thing to watch
when you are dieting. Too much water and by that I mean going over 64 oz a day, if you are not eating enough can lead to problems. There is a
thing called water intoxication that is rare but does happen. Any diet
and or exercise program should be followed carefully.
Good luck.
You are correct TXRose I miss typed 6to8 8 oz. glasses of water and yes not to exceed 64 ounces because of what you stated and Soft Drink’s are the worst carbonation in Soft Drink’s leaches calcium from the bones so some one that has brittle bones should not drink soft drinks. Your suggestion’s on exercise are perfect with this meal plan.
Remember a diet is not something you do it’s what you eat.
My 4 # Papillon has had a case of zoomies tonight. She is all over the house
and I am sitting here with the sniffles.
I have decided to make one resolution. I am going to get her a buddy this
year.
TXRose may God heal your sniffles and give you the zoomies to catch up. LOL
What I told leepro and katieanne about talking, applies to you also
Blind_Mule.
My zoomies just wouldn’t compare with hers. Why mess with perfection?
She met a joey nose to nose this weekend and was not amused!
Night all…Hope this new year brings everyone more good things than not
good things…especially in the election. God Bless.
“Imagine” by John Lennon is playing on Times Square right now. It is just about 2008 in NY. HAPPY NEW YEAR !! Everybody.
Two minutes to 2008….
Thank you TXRose. I appreciate it!
Happy New Year!
My New Years resolution-Try not to feed trolls.
TX Rose-dancing is an art form. Thank you for sharing your experience with the youngster with “ADD”. The young people need art and music. Sitting in front of a TV or computer is not the way to good mental health.
In my fine arts classroom - the students with hyperactivity (ADD) gradually lost their lack of focus.
To Blind_Mule or ??? - may we truly share our site addresses on this venue?
I resolve to start and maintain my physical therapy, so I can get over my back pain and get a life again.
To all who read this thank God in this New Year if you can walk around the block without crying.
- To be less tollerant of the stupid
- To ignore the lamentations of thpse who cry “censorship” while infront of a news camera or a reporter
- To mock those who claim to know what is best for me, or to know what I think or feel, without ever having spoken to me.
I figured it was best to stck to ones I could meet…
First, let just say Happy New Year all.
I will try to get to BWI just to greet some soldiers. Here’s why:
I have always wanted to greet soldiers home from Iraq but just never found the time. Having an ill elderly parent to care for does seem to consume a lot of it. So this year’s annual Christmas family gathering this past Sunday was shaping up to be just like all others; lots of food, lots of kids running around and all the adults catching up. One of my brothers (I’ve got four of them) approached me with the idea of going to the Salisbury airport because his son’s teacher was expecting her son, Sgt. Casey Grodon, home on leave from Iraq. At first, I hesitated. We had just arrived and I was trying to get what food we brought cooked. Another brother said he’d take care of the food and out the door I went. It turned out to be a full minivan; me, my wife, daughter, her boyfriend, my brother, his wife and their son. My nephew was to represent his Cub Scout group. They had made a fairly large poster.
Anyway, we arrived and were quite early. As the time approached for his flight to land, the crowd just to greet this one soldier had grown to probably forty people. Family, friends, the local VFW, and local law enforcement were all represented. There were banners, placards and flags. Local TV and print had shown up too. I had no idea what to expect and all of this was a bit overwhelming when I tried to take it all in. Ha, I couldn’t imagine being that guy!
An announcement was made his flight from Philly is 10 mins early. We all get into place and watched as the plane flashes by. Mom yelled something out to make the plane taxi faster. Finally it parked, out of my view. Mom was getting increasingly impatient and started to give unheard instructions to the ground crew. Let him off!! Her son Casey was allowed to deplane first.
He finally walked into the small terminal, hesitating just a bit at the sight before him, eyes all glassy, and with a smile on his face. He was engulfed in a hug by his mom, surrounded by his dad and brother. The crowd roared with applause. Tissues appeared. After mom let go of Casey, he began to greet everyone. After some minutes, I looked in his direction and saw him on his knee talking to my nephew (he had his Cub Scout uniform on). He later told us Casey had asked him what he got for Christmas and thanked him for being here. All the posters and placards were collected and given to the family. As we left, we ran into the dad walking the family dog. She wanted to greet Casey too.
I got to say, it made my year. I may have missed spending time with my family but it was all worth it. I hope I can keep track of Sgt. Grodon and maybe greet him when he returns for good this summer. I will also pray for his safety and for his brethren.
God Bless Our Troops in Harm’s Way.
After reading that Fox and ABC are cutting candidates from their debate, I resolve to not watch them for any news.I stopped watching NBC 15 years ago and have not faltered in my resolve. I too am in the 5′2″ range and still smoking. Hope to stop. Atkins diet took off forty pounds last year without exercise.Nearly back to my size 6 body. Not easy to do mid sixties. Happy New Year to All. Let’s all resolve to take back our government from those leading us on the path to ruin.
I dont do resolutions, I prefer a prayer. And my prayer for this coming year is that God would continue to look over and bless this great nation, and for a quick and victorious end to the war, that our military can come home in victory and honor.
Regarding wii tennis, it is a blast, lots of fun. But there is nothing like the real sport of tennis. It is difficult to learn and the big problem is that Federer and Sharapova and other stars are so brilliant at what they do that they make the sport of tennis seem easy. And it difficult as can be and so many beginners quit. But start taking lessons, work at it religiously and results eventually come. When you reach a level of proficiency and you have some capacity with the backhand shot, then you will become addicted to tennis. I promise. Nobody who picks up tennis and sticks with the rough patches will ever give up this sport. It is something that is part of your DNA. Just check out the people in the public park when it is 100 degrees in the summer. To the uninitiated, it seems like madness. But to those of us who are tennis addicts, it is normal behavior. And tennis is not a rich man’s sport. Look at Rafa Nadal and the Williams sisters. I am an evangelist for this sport. Wii tennis is loads of fun but when you do the real thing, you will see what I mean.
Christian Soldier, re your # 84 query..yes you can
I am thoroughly resolved to mute the volume or change the channel on any tv news-/analysis show that allows Democrat spin-meisters to preface their rebuttals with the phrase “The reality is…”
This tired, cliched response should be retired because it has become a sure tip-off that what is about to be said next could fertilize every corn field in Iowa for the next three hundred years!
And sorry FNC, but as yours is the only channel I turn to for tv news, that does mean you!
JohnnyD Thank you for posting that wonderful story about greeting a solider. I just had an argument with some pretty nasty Demoncrats at youtube who were dissing a solders under a video that was supposed to be a tribute. Your post made me feel much better.
Thank you madmaxine for standing up for our troops. Thank you JohnnyD for
sharing your wonderful experience. We should each do this at least once in our
lives. I recently greeted returning troops and I was so touched by how much they
appreciated it. Returning vets from Viet Nam in the 70s is still too fresh for me.
I resolve to change my party from Dem to Independent.
Last year I needed to lose about 10 pounds, now I’m up to 20. It’s mine and Mr. Mom2Jack’s 10th anniversary this May. I’d like to go away somewhere and look somewhat decent in a swimsuit.
I will also try harder to get up when the alarm goes off so I’m not racing to get my son to school on time every morning.
I will also make a greater effort to do more volunteering and helping others.
It was no problem at all TXRose, I can not serve my country in the way I want to. The very least I can do is give the Anti-American jack-a a piece of my mind.
It is nothing compared to your service in Viet Nam. Thank you for keeping me and my family free!
Madmaxine, I wasn’t in Viet Nam, my brother was. My husband and I were
both in the Navy but not during wartime, for me. Our oldest son was in the
air force and our youngest wanted to join the military but asthma kept him
out.
I resolve:
- To continue recovering from my TIA in November
- To find employment, or start my own company
- To finally tie the knot with the love of my life
- To stay in touch with family and friends
- To continue to provide a good home for my boys
- To continue the good fight, politically
TXRose opps! I miss read “Returning vets from Viet Nam in the 70s is still too fresh for me.” Sorry, it has been a longggg day for me I woke up at 3AM
Between my back pain and the flu I haven’t been getting my sanity sleep.
Sorry my mistake.
No problem madmaxine. I had to turn in early last night with sniffles. Not the
flu…high mold spore count. I’m still sniflly and nothing is helping. Hope that
your back gets better and that the flu is almost over. My stepmother has it.
She didn’t think she needed a flu shot and caught it from one of the grandchildren ( not mine ). What a way to spend the holidays. Hugs and a
heating pad for the back if that would make it feel better.
No need to thank me. It is something I feel a need to do. And now that I know how it feels to do something like this, I will continue to do it.
Many things happened this past year in nearby DC that I could have attended to further show my support but didn’t. I feel a need to recify this in ‘08.
Madmaxine, I too have not been able to serve my fellow Americans for physical reasons. Funny thing is all I remember is the doctor telling me and my mom it was not serious but it would keep me out of Vietnam. He used that phrase specifically and it has stuck in my mind every since. And I don’t know why.
So, I resolve to make a soldier welcome in any capacity I can. I hope I can be worthy enough to serve those who serve.
I resolve to help my wife more to work with our autistic son.
For everyone here who resolve to quit smoking, well, as an asthma sufferer, I already know how it feels to be unable to walk across this room because you can’t breath. Trust me, you don’t want that!
My apologies to all. I got the name and rank wrong. Here is the story of LT. Groton’s homecoming.
I resolve to learn Arabic.
It would be nice to understand the people of the country that I have recently moved to.