Resolutions, Schmezalootions, part Duh…

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From the obviously talented Teresa Wozniak comes this beautiful New Year’s Resolutions chart. Now, if my intended tidbits of self-improvement were laid out in such a beautiful way, perhaps I’d still be paying attention to them come July. (Although, I did already accomplished one of Teresa’s resolutions a couple months ago.)

Good luck, Teresa! And when you figure out how to make things more fun, please share!

Resolutions, Schmezalootions

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The hubby and I were talking the other day, with another friend, about New Year resolutions. My sexy ball-and-chain said something that really resonated with me, “I don’t believe in resolutions. Either do it or don’t. But don’t wait until Jan. 1 to do it, and don’t talk about it, just start doing it.”

In the spirit of just starting to do it, I bring you Gabe Imlay’s ditto, an endeavor to record a song (almost) every day. So if you like music, especially electric guitar, give ditto a listen, every day or so. After all, it’s free, new music that, as Gabe points out, would cost like 35-cents in iTunes. So far his Electro Boogie is proving to be an inspiring soundtrack to today’s askpiper post.

Happy New Year. Let’s tell stories.

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I stumbled upon this great new site called cowbird. They describe themselves as “a small community of storytellers, sharing heartfelt, personal stories, encouraging a deeper, longer-lasting kind of self-expression than you’re likely to find anywhere else on the web.” A tall order…but I think they can do it!

I joined and wrote a story about my dog, Roy. You can check it out here.

University Students, read here to Win A Trip

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Nicholas D. Kristof of the NYTimes surprises one (or sometimes a few) lucky individuals every year with a trip. This year just one lucky university student will win. You’ll travel with him and need to be capable of blogging about what you experience.

Le sigh, if only I were still in school. I’d love it if he took me to Africa to visit with some elephants. Anyway, if you want to go for it, you’ll find all the deets here.

Pity the Foosball

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Dear Piper,

I wanted to do a good deed for my depressing office and ended up making it worse. They had recently bought a foosball table hoping to boost morale and instead it sat in a box for weeks untouched and unbuilt. Out of the kindness of my heart I snuck into the office on a Sunday night and built the thing, hoping no one would find out it was me. The next day no one played the game and the reason was I built it completely wrong with the players in the wrong slots. With the handles hammered on I don’t think it’s easily fixable. Now i’m embarrassed and ashamed and have to carry that secret around with me for how know how many years to come. What have I done and what if anything can I do?

–Pity the Foosball

Dear Pity,

What you have done is tried to fix a bummer of a situation. And there’s no reason to be embarassed about that. What can you do? The way I see it you have a few options.

1. Sneak back in and fix what isn’t easily fixable.

2. Hire someone to sneak back in and fix what isn’t easily fixable.

3. Fess up. Then invent a game even more fun than foosball that happens on a foosball table. Maybe something like an offline Sims?

4. Put a piece of wood on top and start playing ping pong. It might earn you a date with Susan Sarandon.

5. This one’s non-negotiable: start working on your resume and get a new job.

–Piper