Dos and don’ts for 2009
I’m bored. Not from lack of things to do, mind you, but from lack of will to do things. I’m home, as I am most every New Year’s Eve. I’m not a partier, never have been. I logged out of World of Warcraft in a minor snit so now I sit reading blogs and debating on whether to bother opening up a bottle of wine, or just go to bed. As I Twittered, I’m not watching ABC’s New Year Eve program. So the TV is completely off.
In many ways, 2008 was so much better than 2007 and great leaps ahead of the absolute porta-potty of a year that was 2006. And yet…all I can think of are my former coworkers and the empty desks that will still be empty on Friday when I go back to work. Will I still be at the Courier-Post in 2009? I hope so - I still do love working for my hometown paper - but if the layoff scythe doesn’t get me the drain of doing the jobs of two people just might.
If you’ve been reading me long enough, you’ll know that all of my resolutions die painful and over-the-top deaths. So here are some dos and don’ts I hope to stick by in 2009.
DO:
- Take what I’ve learned from BlogHer and use it.
- Continue working on my PHP/MySQL and Flash skills and look into Ruby on Rails. If the scythe gets me, I need to be prepared for what comes next
- Pay the $$ and join the little workout center that is not even 50 paces from my building’s back door.
- Write, write, write.
DON’T:
- Go on a diet. Just go back to eating better, like I did this summer, before the evil empire dropped the first layoff letter and I ran to Cheetos for cover. When I was doing it right, I wasn’t hungry.
- Put things off.
- Be a hermit. I can be the happiest of clams at home in my Slanket being social via Facebook. Putting on shoes and going out to lunch won’t kill me.
- Give up. No matter how hard all of the above seems, if I keep plugging away I WILL learn new languages. If I keep making jello and portioning my food I WILL lose weight. If I get laid off, all of the above skills will help me so much.
There will be no wine tonight. I’m going to log back into WoW and wish my game buddies a Happy New Year. Then I’m going to cuddle up with the book WM got me for Christmas and doze my way into a happy, healthy, prosperous 2009.
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Shameless self-promotion and, uh, more shameless self-promotion
Firstly,
Cookiecam lives tomorrow at noon, via Mogulus.com and an embedded player here on ladygypsy.net. I still need to find my web cam and figure out how to get this to work, but by hook or by crook, there should be something online at noon tomorrow.
Live, and hopefully silent, since I really would rather not chat into a camera. I have the voice of a silent movie star. :/
Secondly, I wrote a World of Warcraft Gift Guide for my WoW blog. Check it out! 
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Black Friday Wrapup
There is NOTHING a store can do to get me to be at their doors at 4:00am. So, sorry JCPenney and Kohls. I first went to Wawa for coffee and got to Mom’s at 6:00am. Our first stop was Sears for their $99 TomTom GPS. For Mom, not me. I still use Google Maps because I don’t want a disembodied voice telling me where to go. (Too many REAL life voices telling me that. Bwah!)
The traffic was light and we ended up at Sears at 6:15. But the doors were closed and there were still lines wrapped around the store! Turns out their computers were all down and they couldn’t let customers in. D’oh! So we resorted to Plan B.
Which was Circuit City at East Gate. There, I picked up Season 2 of House for $14.99 (from $49.99) and Indiana Jones 4. Back in the car, circled Sears (still lines outside) and headed back to Cherry Hill Mall and Macys. Picked up stuff there. (Can’t be specific.) Then hustled to JCPenney’s and to our great surprise, there were still free snowglobes left! Back out to Modell’s, where we got more stuff, but not one of the things we went there for. Hm. Need another Modell’s, apparently. Then back through the mall, where I got to complain again about Cherry Hill Mall’s soulless Santa display. We exited Macy’s, in the car and across the street to the Silver Diner for breakfast.
Still with me? Good. After breakfast we hit Kohls, where the lines to check out were snaking around the entire store. Kohls used to be our first stop years ago, but the merchandise isn’t anything I couldn’t get anywhere else, and the “free gift card” restrictions tightened quite a bit. I gave our empty cart to a woman in line who had arms full of merchandise and we hightailed it across the street to Target.
I love Target. We got some necessities there (coffee, M&Ms, dog poop bags) and some not so necessites (Christmas tee, Kung Fu Panda DVD). I wonder if Sears is back online…let’s go see! There’s another Modell’s at East Gate anyway.
Back to Sears, doors are open! Yay! We meandered through the clothing aisle, then went down to electronics where they STILL had the $99 TomTom. Unfortunately for the sales reps, their computers were still down, so every credit card transaction had to be called in for authorization. It’s horrible to work in retail on Black Friday - that had to make it 100x worse! We went down one more level to look at snow throwers. For Mom, not me.
(tired…more tomorrow)
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Thankful
I am thankful for the love of my family, friends (real life and all of you online friends), and especially WM, who gave me faith in love again.
I am thankful for my health. At this point, anything I don’t like about my body can be changed by willpower and not by medicine. That is a good thing.
I am thankful for my job. When I’m not being tortured with looming layoffs, I still enjoy most of what I do and most of the people I do it with.
I am thankful for my menagerie of dog and cat noses (and the beasts attached to them.) They make me smile.
I am thankful to live in this country, where I have freedoms others only dream of. This country isn’t perfect, but I have the freedom to say that and that truly rocks.
I am thankful for all of you who take a few minutes out of your packed week to visit and watch me ramble on about everything and nothing. Thank you.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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