New Year Resolutions

[rosylady]

My New year resolutions are:

1. To get my son to talk

2. To be better organized.

3. To cook healthier meals for my family.

4. To drink more water, less beverages with caffeine

5. To play and do more with my kids.

6. To keep my house clean.

7. To not argue as much with my husband.

8. To get more sleep.

9. To learn how to use my sewing machine.

10. To learn how to knit and crochet.


Resolutions are not in any particular order.

Do you have any?

 

[rosylady]

NO ONE HAS ANY NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS???

 

[Chicklet]

see that ass?

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I want to make it smaller

via dieting and exercize

lol

like that'll happen

 

[capricious_chic]

I don't really have any.

I gave up on them years ago, now I just try to live my life everyday like it is the last and go from there.

Good luck on your resolutions Rosy!!

 

[bashfull]

A few thoughts on the New Year

1) To seek more wonder, laughter, and experiences with my son.

2) To help at least one child learn to read.

3) To help at least one family in need.

4) To double my business.

5) To keeps my friends smiling and laughing.

6) To make the top business practices list.

7) To mentor one new person.

8) To teach someone to dream.

9) To take a real vacation.

10) To drop my body fat percentage to under 12%

 

[Gusty Wind]

I don't really have any.

I gave up on them years ago, now I just try to live my life everyday like it is the last and go from there.

Good luck on your resolutions Rosy!!

every second is brand new...

is hard enough....

to plan....awww....

 

[rosylady]

see that ass?

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I want to make it smaller

via dieting and exercize

lol

like that'll happen

Hey, I want to make my butt smaller too. I think it is possible, I just get off it and actually do the exercises instead of thinking of doing them.

I didn't put losing weight as a resolutions because than I know it won't happen.

Good Luck, be happy.
Take it one step at a time.
If you start exercising, don't go by the scale, throw the thing away, go by how your clothes look.

 

[rosylady]

I don't really have any.

I gave up on them years ago, now I just try to live my life everyday like it is the last and go from there.

Good luck on your resolutions Rosy!!

Good philosophy CC. I don't usually make resolutions but most of mine are things I believe are more attainable for me.

 

[rosylady]

Re: A few thoughts on the New Year

1) To seek more wonder, laughter, and experiences with my son.

2) To help at least one child learn to read.

3) To help at least one family in need.

4) To double my business.

5) To keeps my friends smiling and laughing.

6) To make the top business practices list.

7) To mentor one new person.

8) To teach someone to dream.

9) To take a real vacation.

10) To drop my body fat percentage to under 12%

Hope you accomplish at least one of your resolutions in the New Year.

Happy New year Bash.

 

[rosylady]

 

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[TantaLiza]

Things I'm gonna try to accomplish this next year....

*get to know someone better....

*keep drinkin my water and droppin more pounds...

*learn to LIKE exercise....(yeah right)

*be a better mom...understanding yet keep a firm hand...

*find a suitable place to move...within budget

*learn to open my heart....

*set up "mom" time...for my mental health

*accept and deal with change better...


......I'm sure there'll be more as the weeks go by but this is enough to get me started....

Prayers and special wishes to all for a wonderful New Year!!!!

Liza

 

[rosylady]

Things I'm gonna try to accomplish this next year....

*get to know someone better....

*keep drinkin my water and droppin more pounds...

*learn to LIKE exercise....(yeah right)

*be a better mom...understanding yet keep a firm hand...

*find a suitable place to move...within budget

*learn to open my heart....

*set up "mom" time...for my mental health

*accept and deal with change better...


......I'm sure there'll be more as the weeks go by but this is enough to get me started....

Prayers and special wishes to all for a wonderful New Year!!!!

Liza

Wow Liza, That sounds like a good list of goals for the New Year.

I agree with getting to know someone better and I think I too should give my self more "MOM" time.


As far as learning to LIKE exercise.............. is that really possible???? LOL

 

[rosylady]

 

[WriterDom]

To spank every woman in the playground with a flashy trashy sig line.

If you don't have a flashy trashy sig line, you'll have to wait for your birthday.

 

[cookiejar]

To be a better mom.

To try not to lose my temper so easily.

To start writing that book.

To try and live with my highs and lows.

Everything else is too unrealistic.



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[rosylady]

Happy New Year Around The World.

Afgani Saale Nao Mubbarak

Afrikaans Gelukkige nuwe jaar

Albanian Gezuar Vitin e Ri

Arabic Antum salimoun

Bengali Shuvo Nabo Barsho

Bulgarian ×åñòèòà Íîâà Ãîäèíà(pronounced "Chestita Nova Godina")

Chinese Chu Shen Tan

Corsican Language Pace e Salute

Cymraeg (Welsh) Blwyddyn Newydd Dda

Czechoslovakia Scastny Novy Rok

Denish Godt Nytår

Dutch GELUKKIG NIEUWJAAR!

Eskimo Kiortame pivdluaritlo

Estonians Head uut aastat!

Finnish Onnellista Uutta Vuotta

French Bonne Annee

Gaelic Bliadhna mhath ur

German Prosit Neujahr

Greek Kenourios Chronos

Hawaiian Hauoli Makahiki Hou

Hebrew L'Shannah Tovah

Hindi Nahi varsh ka shub kamna

Hungarian Boldog £j vet k¡v nok!

Indonesian Selamat Tahun Baru

Iraqi Sanah Jadidah

Irish Bliain nua fe mhaise dhuit

Italian: Felice anno nuovo

Kannada: Hosa Varushadha Shubhashayagalu

Kisii: SOMWAKA OMOYIA OMUYA

Khmer: Sua Sdei tfnam tmei

Laotian: Sabai dee pee mai

Nepal Nawa Barsha ko Shuvakamana

Norwegian Godt Nyttår

Papua New Guinea Nupela yia i go long yu

Philippines Manigong Bagong Taon

Polish: Szczesliwego Nowego Roku

Portuguese Feliz Ano Novo

Punjabi Nave sal di mubarak

Romanian AN NOU FERICIT

Russian S Novim Godom

Serbo-Croatian Sretna nova godina

Sindhi Nayou Saal Mubbarak Hoje

Singhalese Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa

Slovak A stastlivy Novy Rok

Somali Iyo Sanad Cusub Oo Fiican!

Spanish Feliz Ano ~Nuevo

Swahili Heri Za Mwaka Mpyaº

Swedish GOTT NYTT ÅR! /Gott nytt år!

Sudanese Warsa Enggal

Tamil Eniya Puthandu Nalvazhthukkal

Telegu Noothana samvatsara shubhakankshalu

Thai Sawadee Pee Mai

Turkish Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun

Ukrainian Shchastlyvoho Novoho Roku

Urdu Naya Saal Mubbarak Ho

Vietnamese Chuc Mung Tan Nien

 

[Blue Dolphin]

my resolution
to spread joy and happiness
wherever, and, whenever I can
if possible
be well all
BD

 

[rosylady]

Happy New Year!" That greeting will be said and heard for at least the first couple of weeks as a new year gets under way. But the day celebrated as New Year's Day in modern America was not always January 1.

ANCIENT NEW YEARS

The celebration of the new year is the oldest of all holidays. It was first observed in ancient Babylon about 4000 years ago. In the years around 2000 BC, the Babylonian New Year began with the first New Moon (actually the first visible cresent) after the Vernal Equinox (first day of spring).

The beginning of spring is a logical time to start a new year. After all, it is the season of rebirth, of planting new crops, and of blossoming. January 1, on the other hand, has no astronomical nor agricultural significance. It is purely arbitrary.

The Babylonian new year celebration lasted for eleven days. Each day had its own particular mode of celebration, but it is safe to say that modern New Year's Eve festivities pale in comparison.

The Romans continued to observe the new year in late March, but their calendar was continually tampered with by various emperors so that the calendar soon became out of synchronization with the sun.

In order to set the calendar right, the Roman senate, in 153 BC, declared January 1 to be the beginning of the new year. But tampering continued until Julius Caesar, in 46 BC, established what has come to be known as the Julian Calendar. It again established January 1 as the new year. But in order to synchronize the calendar with the sun, Caesar had to let the previous year drag on for 445 days.

THE CHURCH'S VIEW OF NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS

Although in the first centuries AD the Romans continued celebrating the new year, the early Catholic Church condemned the festivities as paganism. But as Christianity became more widespread, the early church began having its own religious observances concurrently with many of the pagan celebrations, and New Year's Day was no different. New Years is still observed as the Feast of Christ's Circumcision by some denominations.

During the Middle Ages, the Church remained opposed to celebrating New Years. January 1 has been celebrated as a holiday by Western nations for only about the past 400 years.

NEW YEAR TRADITIONS

Other traditions of the season include the making of New Year's resolutions. That tradition also dates back to the early Babylonians. Popular modern resolutions might include the promise to lose weight or quit smoking. The early Babylonian's most popular resolution was to return borrowed farm equipment.

The Tournament of Roses Parade dates back to 1886. In that year, members of the Valley Hunt Club decorated their carriages with flowers. It celebrated the ripening of the orange crop in California.

Although the Rose Bowl football game was first played as a part of the Tournament of Roses in 1902, it was replaced by Roman chariot races the following year. In 1916, the football game returned as the sports centerpiece of the festival.

The tradition of using a baby to signify the new year was begun in Greece around 600 BC. It was their tradition at that time to celebrate their god of wine, Dionysus, by parading a baby in a basket, representing the annual rebirth of that god as the spirit of fertility. Early Egyptians also used a baby as a symbol of rebirth.

Although the early Christians denounced the practice as pagan, the popularity of the baby as a symbol of rebirth forced the Church to reevaluate its position. The Church finally allowed its members to celebrate the new year with a baby, which was to symbolize the birth of the baby Jesus.

The use of an image of a baby with a New Years banner as a symbolic representation of the new year was brought to early America by the Germans. They had used the effigy since the fourteenth century.

FOR LUCK IN THE NEW YEAR

Traditionally, it was thought that one could affect the luck they would have throughout the coming year by what they did or ate on the first day of the year. For that reason, it has become common for folks to celebrate the first few minutes of a brand new year in the company of family and friends. Parties often last into the middle of the night after the ringing in of a new year. It was once believed that the first visitor on New Year's Day would bring either good luck or bad luck the rest of the year. It was particularly lucky if that visitor happened to be a tall dark-haired man.

Traditional New Year foods are also thought to bring luck. Many cultures believe that anything in the shape of a ring is good luck, because it symbolizes "coming full circle," completing a year's cycle. For that reason, the Dutch believe that eating donuts on New Year's Day will bring good fortune.

Many parts of the U.S. celebrate the new year by consuming black-eyed peas. These legumes are typically accompanied by either hog jowls or ham. Black-eyed peas and other legumes have been considered good luck in many cultures. The hog, and thus its meat, is considered lucky because it symbolizes prosperity. Cabbage is another "good luck" vegetable that is consumed on New Year's Day by many. Cabbage leaves are also considered a sign of prosperity, being representative of paper currency. In some regions, rice is a lucky food that is eaten on New Year's Day.

AULD LANG SYNE

The song, "Auld Lang Syne," playing in the background, is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year. At least partially written by Robert Burns in the 1700's, it was first published in 1796 after Burns' death. Early variations of the song were sung prior to 1700 and inspired Burns to produce the modern rendition. An old Scotch tune, "Auld Lang Syne" literally means "old long ago," or simply, "the good old days."

 

[rosylady]

Any New years Eve Parties planned?

 

[STUDDOG]

Rosy.....

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MY FRIENDS


Rosy....I'm going to try and list a few of my "want to fix" next year things......NO RESOLUTIONS....JUST WANT'S

1. Be a more understanding man

2. Spend more time with my sons

3. Smile more and frown less

4. Walk my dog at night on a chain....hormone problem!

5. More highs and less lows

6. Try and find my spirituality again

7. Make more people smile and many less frown

8. Sky dive once

9. Spent more time in the gym...

10. Try and make at least two of these work....

STUDDOG

 

[rosylady]

Re: Rosy.....

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MY FRIENDS


Rosy....I'm going to try and list a few of my "want to fix" next year things......NO RESOLUTIONS....JUST WANT'S

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8. Sky dive once



STUDDOG

Sky diving is something I would love to try at least once.

 

[STUDDOG]

ROSY

Sky diving is something I would love to try at least once.

ROSY
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My friend has been trying for a while to get me too....so I'm going for it .....just once.....and survive it!!!!!!...he he with my knee's knocking.....


BIRDDOG


HAPPY NEW YEAR ROSY.......BE SAFE MY FRIEND

 

[tonitits]

I don't usually do the resolutions things. However, this year I have a few things that I want to get accomplished, not necessarily resolutions. (If I call them that I probably will not be able to accomplish them, lol)

1. finally get to meet the man I am in love with and hopefully take steps to make our future start to take shape, if we see that it is for real in r/l. (I am 99.9% sure that it is. ) It has been a long time coming. Never thought it would happen.

2. Definitely need to get organized. Then maybe it will cut down on some of the stress from never being able to find anything.

3. Take a real vacation.

4. Be a better mom to my son and be there for him always.

5. Try to be the best that I can be in every way.

I guess that is enough. Hopefully I can accomplish some of these.