December 2008
Me: I definitely still have places I could go. But I'm ambivalent.
Dad: Something in you wants to do something that you feel - rightly or wrongly - is dramatic. That makes more of a statement.
Me: I think you're right.
Dad: Maybe this gives you an opportunity to have a quiet new years and get a ripping start on 2009 - where you get up early and go to your new health club and go for a run in Central Park with Lilly, who will take you all of two blocks and plop.
Me: Now that's just depressing.
Requiem for the New Years' OBO
I’m an inveterate OBO’er (OBO, of course, standing for “Or Better Offer”) - so much so that certain people in my life call me “OBO” as a nickname. It is not a compliment.
I think this New Years it’s finally catching up to me.
Had I made a decision, I could have gone to Aruba with CD. I could have gone to a party in Chicago with Elly & Rachel. I...
Another Way to Review Your 2008
Again, thanks to Mary Schmich for the below call to resolve in the New Year, originally published in the Chicago Tribune. Be an overachiever and fill both out!!
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At the dawn of each year, in the fresh air of each new resolution season, my head hums half the time with a line from an old Paul Simon song: “The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into...
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Your 2008 in Review
Thanks to Mary Schmich of the Chicago Tribune for this! She publishes something about reflecting every New Years, and this one is from 2007, I’ve just changed the date. Fill it out, seriously. I’m going to. I promise you won’t regret doing it.
YEAR IN REVIEW - 2008 When you consciously review your year, you may notice how little you noticed it as it whizzed past. To review...
“Why are you not like, in Dubai or something?”
– Rachel Sklar, when I asked her to join me in Times Square. Bah!
Sorry! Just landed back in NY, and am...
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Me: I wonder what life would have been like if we had had Facebook when we were in high school.
Elly: I think it would have sucked.
Rachel: I feel like we'd remember more people.
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WatchMy final Christmas hurrah, and then … seriously, don’t mention the word “Christmas” to me again for a SOLID eleven months.
I am completely,!#! totally, absolutely, FINALLY Christmas’d out.
*One note on this video - Britt shot it, and towards the end, he started to crack up (I look like a freaking idiot, of that I’m fully aware), which, of course, made me crack...
Me: Well, I'm not saying I'm the Dalai Lama.
Dad: I'll say! You're about as close to the Dalai Lama as I am to Dolly Parton!
Me: Whatever, you're so going to regret saying that in ten years when America looks to me for spiritual guidance.
Dad: And that's the wonderful thing about America. Anyone can be President and anyone can be a spiritual leader.
Me: HA! Says the guy who voted for GEORGE W. BUSH. TWICE!!
Dad: [Silence]
Me: Huh. I think I just made your point for you.
Britt: And, end scene.
Me: Oh my god, the Dalai Lama totally has his own website. DalaiLama.com
Dad: Yeah, but does he use Vimeo? Does he have a Twitter?
Me: You've been reading those "end of the year" tech roundups in the Chicago Tribune again, haven't you?
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Me: The sun certainly goes down early here.
Mom: "Here"?
Dad: It's called the Northern Hemisphere.
Mom: The sun goes down early in New York too, you just leave the lights on so you don't notice.
