Ok, I know it’s late and I should be hard at work on the list of things not to do next year… but I found at IdentityMIA - Mishaps of the Internet an old study I had seen years ago and loved… go check it out… unless your a true believer… in which case just move on and buy some more carrots for the reindeer.
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10) Quit smoking- yes… it may be my lowest priority of things to do… but I’ve been telling myself every year is the last year now for five years. Maybe if I didn’t make it my lowest priority I’d be able to do it.
9) Lose weight- not sure how to try to do this again this year… but maybe I can get motivated to avoid the constant and consistent fast food and make some time for the gym. I have a gym membership… unfortunately it’s so old it was chiseled into a stone slab similar to the Ten Commandments. Yeah… I definitely need to update that photo.
8) Spend more time with my family-… right… anyway…
7) Go back to therapy-… or some form of it. My former therapist won’t want to see me anymore… but he was nice enough to drop the charges after I destroyed his office and nearly put him through a plate glass window. Maybe if the therapy would have worked… that wouldn’t have happened… so who’s fault was it anyway? See… this is why he doesn’t like me anymore.
6) I’m going to win the World Series of Poker-… right… look, this is a list of the top things I should do… but for this one, I’ll be happy with just a seat at the table and to avoid being the first person busted out.
5) I’m taking my son to New Hampshire-… I have a beloved aunt who lives in New Hampshire. She has unfortunately only seen DJ once… primarily because of the distances involved. So this spring, I’m taking him to see her… because besides the guilt trip she gave me last night about it… I do miss New Hampshire.
4) I’m going to deal with Officer Crumb-… yes… I have been EXTREMELY nice so far… but if he even attempts to play the same crap in the new year as he did last year with The Steff… well, just go see number 7… only I WILL put him through the plate glass window… and seeing as how this is a picture she sent me of her throwing darts at him… I tend to think she won’t be protesting.
3) I’m going to deal with Louis finally-… see number 4, then read number 7, times it by 10… yes… Louis is done… he just doesn’t know it yet…
2) I’m going to be less violent and less aggressive this year-… really… after I do number 3 and number 4… I think I’ll become a Buddhist and find some inner peace. Maybe then I can get a date. Buddhists aren’t celibate are they?
1) The one thing this year I swear I’ll do is finish ONE of my book ideas- …I want to get it done and get it published… maybe not by a real publisher… but if I have to do it myself so be it. Bottom line… my number one goal is to break down the wall with a sledgehammer and smash it into bits and pieces. Then I’ll become that Buddhist… as long as they don’t have to be celibate… otherwise I’ll have to find some other inner peace religion that allows sex. How about those mormons? I can live in Salt Lake City… really I could.
So that’s what I WANT to do for 2006… maybe I should make a list of things to avoid too while I’m at it.
9) Lose weight- not sure how to try to do this again this year… but maybe I can get motivated to avoid the constant and consistent fast food and make some time for the gym. I have a gym membership… unfortunately it’s so old it was chiseled into a stone slab similar to the Ten Commandments. Yeah… I definitely need to update that photo.
8) Spend more time with my family-… right… anyway…
7) Go back to therapy-… or some form of it. My former therapist won’t want to see me anymore… but he was nice enough to drop the charges after I destroyed his office and nearly put him through a plate glass window. Maybe if the therapy would have worked… that wouldn’t have happened… so who’s fault was it anyway? See… this is why he doesn’t like me anymore.
6) I’m going to win the World Series of Poker-… right… look, this is a list of the top things I should do… but for this one, I’ll be happy with just a seat at the table and to avoid being the first person busted out.
5) I’m taking my son to New Hampshire-… I have a beloved aunt who lives in New Hampshire. She has unfortunately only seen DJ once… primarily because of the distances involved. So this spring, I’m taking him to see her… because besides the guilt trip she gave me last night about it… I do miss New Hampshire.
4) I’m going to deal with Officer Crumb-… yes… I have been EXTREMELY nice so far… but if he even attempts to play the same crap in the new year as he did last year with The Steff… well, just go see number 7… only I WILL put him through the plate glass window… and seeing as how this is a picture she sent me of her throwing darts at him… I tend to think she won’t be protesting.
3) I’m going to deal with Louis finally-… see number 4, then read number 7, times it by 10… yes… Louis is done… he just doesn’t know it yet…
2) I’m going to be less violent and less aggressive this year-… really… after I do number 3 and number 4… I think I’ll become a Buddhist and find some inner peace. Maybe then I can get a date. Buddhists aren’t celibate are they?
1) The one thing this year I swear I’ll do is finish ONE of my book ideas- …I want to get it done and get it published… maybe not by a real publisher… but if I have to do it myself so be it. Bottom line… my number one goal is to break down the wall with a sledgehammer and smash it into bits and pieces. Then I’ll become that Buddhist… as long as they don’t have to be celibate… otherwise I’ll have to find some other inner peace religion that allows sex. How about those mormons? I can live in Salt Lake City… really I could.
So that’s what I WANT to do for 2006… maybe I should make a list of things to avoid too while I’m at it.
While getting ready to make my New Year’s resolutions I stumbled over this page that I found VERY useful… namely to give my blog a “home” link… So click on the title and you’ll see what I mean. For other goodies, check out Blogger Hacks - The Series - Freshblog.
When We Were Liars, Things Were Seamless: Excerpts from a Conversation is a classic example of the things I was talking about that I can identify and sympathize with.
Really… to put it in more of a modern terminology, it’s like The Matrix (the original movie). When Morpheus offers Neo the two pills… the Blue pill and the Red pill. The Blue pill represents the world as you know it… the familiar things, the comfortable known things. The Red pill respresents the world you don’t know… an unknown factor, an adventurous and potentially scary prospect. It goes alot deeper, philosophical arguments that have been made in a number of Matrix Essays written on the subject, but I’m not talking about the deep Buddhist stuff… I’m talking about how people the world over would choose the status quo over the refreshing and new.
The Steff does it, choosing Officer Crumb over the new guy. Christine does it, choosing Louis over the unknown. Monique is contemplating it, choosing Ryan over Mark. So the question becomes why stay with the known over the unknown?
Well, I think its because it is the unknown. There is a fear factor involved there… one which is in our subconscious as opposed to being a conscious thought.
Am I any different? I’m an adrenaline junky… never sure what my next call will be… never knowing where it might take me. Hell… I even participated in both Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita responses. Am I a red piller, going down the rabbit hole every chance I get? I like to think so.
Yet… Pudding once accused me of preferring to be alone… and therefore being a blue piller. Then I doubted her, and told her she was crazy. Now… in hindsight… maybe I do prefer being alone… because deep down that is what I’m used to having been that way for so long. Marrying her was definately a trip down the rabbit hole. Would I give it back? Nope. I would do it… heartache and all… again and again. Why? Because there were good times too… and those are priceless in my mind and heart. Although being alone may be what I know and am familiar with better than most… it’s being lonely that drives me to my moments of insanity. So is being alone my personal blue pill that goes down my gullet in my subconscious? Anything is really possible I suppose… but I need to change it… I need to swallow the red pill… even if it ends my existence in this dreamworld state.
So the question before us all is what we know versus what we don’t… and which do we choose? I want to take the red pill. I don’t want to stay with the familiar and safe… because I’ve been there… done that… got a few t-shirts and divorce papers to prove it. So how do I take the red pill in this? Maybe I should start with making some New Year’s resolutions…
Really… to put it in more of a modern terminology, it’s like The Matrix (the original movie). When Morpheus offers Neo the two pills… the Blue pill and the Red pill. The Blue pill represents the world as you know it… the familiar things, the comfortable known things. The Red pill respresents the world you don’t know… an unknown factor, an adventurous and potentially scary prospect. It goes alot deeper, philosophical arguments that have been made in a number of Matrix Essays written on the subject, but I’m not talking about the deep Buddhist stuff… I’m talking about how people the world over would choose the status quo over the refreshing and new.
The Steff does it, choosing Officer Crumb over the new guy. Christine does it, choosing Louis over the unknown. Monique is contemplating it, choosing Ryan over Mark. So the question becomes why stay with the known over the unknown?
Well, I think its because it is the unknown. There is a fear factor involved there… one which is in our subconscious as opposed to being a conscious thought.
Am I any different? I’m an adrenaline junky… never sure what my next call will be… never knowing where it might take me. Hell… I even participated in both Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita responses. Am I a red piller, going down the rabbit hole every chance I get? I like to think so.
Yet… Pudding once accused me of preferring to be alone… and therefore being a blue piller. Then I doubted her, and told her she was crazy. Now… in hindsight… maybe I do prefer being alone… because deep down that is what I’m used to having been that way for so long. Marrying her was definately a trip down the rabbit hole. Would I give it back? Nope. I would do it… heartache and all… again and again. Why? Because there were good times too… and those are priceless in my mind and heart. Although being alone may be what I know and am familiar with better than most… it’s being lonely that drives me to my moments of insanity. So is being alone my personal blue pill that goes down my gullet in my subconscious? Anything is really possible I suppose… but I need to change it… I need to swallow the red pill… even if it ends my existence in this dreamworld state.
So the question before us all is what we know versus what we don’t… and which do we choose? I want to take the red pill. I don’t want to stay with the familiar and safe… because I’ve been there… done that… got a few t-shirts and divorce papers to prove it. So how do I take the red pill in this? Maybe I should start with making some New Year’s resolutions…
