Happy New Year, Ricochet!
Claire Berlinski, Ed. ·
Jan 1, 2011 at 12:39am
I'm trying to decide which is the more inauspicious way to begin the New Year: leaving that huge mess in my kitchen, or cleaning it?
This thread is open for New Year's resolutions. Mine is never to use the soup-blender in a pot that small ever again. Modest, but achievable, I think. And I'm highly motivated. You'd understand why if you saw the kitchen.
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May '10
Re: Happy New Year, Ricochet!
Come on Claire, please post a New Year's photo of the mess. I hope it was not a tomato or pumpkin based dish.
Edited on Jan 1, 2011 at 12:42amRe: Happy New Year, Ricochet!
It was pumpkin.
Alas.
Sep '10
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Leave it. Your minions have all year to clean it.
May '10
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Don't those cats do anything?
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Oh yeah. They raided the leftovers, then barfed them all over the carpet, the bathroom, and the radiator--the latter particularly challenging to clean. They keep busy.
May '10
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I had a similar accident making tomato soup once. But the soup was delicious. Cleaning up the walls, floors and cabinets not so much.
Sep '10
Re: Happy New Year, Ricochet!
Claire Berlinski, Ed.
Oh yeah. They raided the leftovers, then barfed them all over the carpet, the bathroom, and the radiator--the latter particularly challenging to clean. They keep busy. · Jan 1 at 4:34am
Amateurs, the whole lot of them.
Sep '10
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Seems to me that you have a few options Claire:
(1) Call the fire department and have them do it;
(2) Your Turkish ISP/Telco will eventually show up unannounced if you keep complaining about it, though they will likely leave something baked on one of the dishes requiring you to call back;
(3) Move;
(4) Announce a large natural gas shale deposit right below your apartment block;
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Am I the only one who even proposes to improve myself this year?
Jun '10
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My wife and second mistress say I'm perfect just the way I am.
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I want you all to know I cleaned it. 2011 just wasn't going to start with pumpkin on the ceiling and pumpkinbarf on the carpet.
Jul '10
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I resolve to make more accurate predictions. I'll begin the new year by predicting that My accuracy will not improve.
Oct '10
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I am too late - don't clean it was my immediate thought. Tomorrow is really the day to start improving, but pumpkin might require quick action.
As always, my resolutions are the same:
drink more water;
get more sleep;
be more organized.
The last causes much mirth when shared with others who know me and have seen our house.
May '10
Re: Happy New Year, Ricochet!
To answer your original question, Fewer martinis, and more time spent in exercise.
May '10
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I'm with you, Claire! I love the start of a fresh new year with all its possibilities. Just dug out my 25 year old copy of The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C.S. Lewis this morning. There are many entries underlined and starred and pages folded down at the corners, but I'm embarrassed to say I've never taken the time to study the works the quotations were drawn from.
So this year I resolve to read C.S. Lewis, and will start with Mere Christianity because I've always been inspired by a quotation from Book IV, Chapter 8. Although it refers to Christianity I think it could appeal to a broader audience:
The First Job Each Morning
The real problem of the Christian life comes where people do not usually look for it. It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals.
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May '10
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And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in. And so on, all day. Standing back from all your natural fussings and frettings; coming in out of the wind.
We can only do it for moments at first. But from those moments the new sort of life will be spreading through our system: because now we are letting Him work at the right part of us. It is the difference between paint, which is merely laid on the surface and a dye or stain which soaks right through. He never talked vague, idealistic gas. When He said, 'Be perfect,' He meant it. He meant that we must go in for the full treatment. It is hard; but the sort of compromise we are all hankering after is harder - in fact, it is impossible.
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Sep '10
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PseudoD NYR: More snark, less bark.
Sep '10
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pumpkinbarf on the carpet
Sounds like a great name for a band.
May '10
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
Simply beautiful. Need to wrench myself away from the keyboard and spend some quality time with family today, so here's wishing everyone a marvelous New Year!
Jul '10
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Pseudodionysius: pumpkinbarf on the carpet
Sounds like a great name for a band. · Jan 1 at 7:14am
Carpet Pumpkinbarf. I love it.
Edited on Jan 1, 2011 at 7:16am