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Resolutions, Yea or Nay?

I realize that it's mid-January, but I'm still trying to figure out if I should make some New Year's Resolutions. Last year I had four: 1. attend the [LDS] temple once a month 2. exercise daily 3. personal scripture study daily 4. moisturize Of those, I bombed three completely, but I did begin to moisturize consistently. In fact, I've used up quite a few tubes, pots and even pumps of lotion, cream, creme, body butter, salve and other goos. So while I am the quintessential New Year's Loser, I am at least much softer than I would have been otherwise. Was it a complete bust? Is it worth doing again? I've read resolutions posted by my niece and some friends, and they range from affirming priorities to a complete change of lifestyle. I have friends who just choose one word for each year, and I like that it is concise and easy to remember, but I don't know if it has the concrete measurability I need to make them happen. I am leaning toward lowering the bar this y

You May Not Want to Read This, but I'm Going to Write It Down

The Professor is now officially on leave. He has set up a system where he has to e-mail two colleagues daily at end of business with the total time he wrote that day. Yesterday he wrote 0 hours which he said was pretty heinous for leave. I told him that it was a "leather strap and brandy" kind of a day, which it was. I'd had no sleep, staying up with Joss who was playing from 3:30-6:00am. Then he woke up to terrorize me all day, smashing a glass, throwing cat food around the garage, busting a beaded garland, etc. always one step ahead of me, making another mess as I cleaned up the last one. He's on antibiotics and the pharmacy was out of probiotics . . . I took Sebastian in to the Dr. office to get his cast off. On the way there, at the intersection of Bulldog and Columbia Lane, he commented "We've never been to Check City. I want to go to Check City!" I explained what payday and title loans were and explained the usual clientele. He decided he could liv