Archive for December, 2011

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Have a Happy and

Prosperous New Year, everyone!

Happy New Year!

Wishing all a joyful new year, members of the Cassini-Huygens team offer us their views of Saturn and the Cassini spacecraft. Cassini-Huygens, a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency, which is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, for NASA. The Cassini orbiter (pictured at the top right of this image) and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL

A Beautiful and Inspirational Story about New Year’s Eve and Growing Old

Now that I am in my Golden Years, I would like to share this

Beautiful and Inspirational Story

about New Year’s Eve  and Growing Old

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Bugger …

I’ve forgotten what it was….

HAPPY NEW YEAR POEMS

Happy Year of the Dragon

“Gung Hay Fat Choy!”
In China, Every Girl And Boy
Celebrates The New Year
In A Very Special Way —-
With Fireworks And Dragons,
Colored Red And Gold —-
They Welcome In The New Year
And Chase Away The Old!

And ye, who have met with Adversity’s blast,
And been bow’d to the earth by its fury;
To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass’d
Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury -
Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime,
The regrets of remembrance to cozen,
And having obtained a New Trial of Time,
Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.
~Thomas Hood

Happy New Year
Happy New Year
If it didn’t bring you joy
just leave it behind
Let’s ring in the new year
with good things in mind

Let every bad memory
that brought heartache and pain
And let’s turn a new leaf
with the smell of new rain

Let’s forget past mistakes
making amends for this year
Sending you these greetings
to bring you hope and cheer
Happy New Year!

A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I’ve played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.
~Edgar Guest

Happy New Year Poem

A New Year  ~ William Arthur Ward

Another fresh new year is here 

Another year to live!

To banish worry, doubt, and fear,

To love and laugh and give!

This bright new year is given me

To live each day with zest ”

To daily grow and try to be

My highest and my best!

I have the opportunity

Once more to right some wrongs,

To pray for peace, to plant a tree,

And sing more joyful songs!

A Year of Time – New Year Message

A Year of Time. . . . . . . . . . . .  Steven B. Cloud

”Though even thinking on the subject of time may prove discomforting, it is not a bad idea – especially at the beginning of a new year.

As we look into the new year we look at a block of time. We see 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, 8,760 hours, 525,600 minutes, 31,536,000 seconds.  We have done nothing to deserve it, earn it, or purchased it. Like the air we breathe, time comes to us as a part of life.

The gift of time is not ours alone. It is given equally to each person. Rich and poor, educated and ignorant, strong and weak – every man, woman and child has the same twenty-four hours every day.

Another important thing about time is that you cannot stop it. There is no way to slow it down, turn it off, or adjust it. Time marches on.

And you cannot bring back time. Once it is gone, it is gone. Yesterday is lost forever. If yesterday is lost, tomorrow is uncertain. We may look ahead at a full year’s block of time, but we really have no guarantee that we will experience any of it.

Obviously, time is one of our most precious possessions. We can waste it. We can worry over it. We can spend it on ourselves.

The new year is full of time. As the seconds tick away, will you be tossing time out the window, or will you make every minute count?

A Bad Dream on New Year’s Eve

Leroy’s wife was taking an afternoon nap on New Year’s Eve before the festivities. After she woke up, she confided to Leroy, ‘I just dreamed that you gave me a diamond ring for a New Year’s present. What do you think it all means?’

‘Aha, you’ll know tonight,’ answered Leroy smiling broadly.

At midnight , as the New Year clocks were chiming, leroy approached his wife and handed her small package. Delighted and excited she opened it quickly. There in her hand rested a book entitled: ‘The meaning of dreams’.

Happy New Year With Lots of Bear Hugs

WISHING  YOU -  IN  YOUR  BUSY

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LIFESTYLE – SOME TIME FOR

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RELAXATION AND REFLECTION.

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GOOD SLEEP

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GOOD HEALTH

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& EXCERCISE

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SOMEONE TO DANCE WITH

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A BIT OF ADVENTURE

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GOOD LOOKS

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BUT MOST OF ALL…

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I WISH YOU LOTS OF BEAR

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HUGS!

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AND THE BLISS OF REAL LOVE!

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BUT WATCH OUT FOR THOSE

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BLOODY PENGUINS!

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“Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.” — Anonymous

“I’m a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit rounder, but still none the wiser.” — Robert Paul

“New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.” — Mark Twain

Happy New Year Inspirational Message

My Wish For You in 2012

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012 ~ FUNNY RESOLUTIONS, SAYINGS, QUOTES AND IMAGES

A new oath holds pretty well; but… when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.  ~Mark Twain, speech in New York City, 31 March 1885

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MY RESOLUTIONS

I will

Spend less than one hour a day on the Internet.

This, of course, will be hard to estimate since I’m not a clock watcher.

Take time to ponder the little (important) things in my life

Try to figure out Google +

Get one of these:

Hand built in Canada,

the 1510 is a comfortable,

immersive and aesthetically unique environment

for the long hours spent in front of computer monitors.

http://www.mwelab.com/emperor-1510/gallery

See if I can really cry under water

Not worry about things I can’t control

Not read anything about the Kardashian Family

Try not to be so critical of the Republican GOP 2012 Presidential candidates

Stop trying to figure out why Donald Trump wears his hair like that

Stop asking Siri on my Apple iPhone 4s dumb questions

Not drink so much ~

Stages of getting drunk

Buy myself a Micro pig

Not weigh myself

Just for today, I will not sit in my living room all day buck naked.

Instead, I will move my computer into the bedroom.

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Not worry so much about the Mayan and Harold Camping Predictions

about the End of the World or Judgment Day December 21, 2012

Until December…

Get a massage when I’m feeling down

Not pass on more than one email forward each day, unless they are really good