HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012

Winter Wonderland Fail – Moving to Florida

AUG. 1 Moved to our new home in Ontario. It is so beautiful here. The city is so picturesque. Can hardly wait to see it covered with snow. I LOVE IT HERE

OCT. 14 Ontario is the most beautiful place on earth. The leaves are turning all different colors. I love the shades of red and orange. Went for a ride through the hills and saw some deer. They are so graceful. Certainly they are the most peaceful animals on earth. This must be paradise. I LOVE IT HERE.

NOV. 11 Deer season will open soon. I can’t imagine anyone wanting to kill such an elegant creature. The very symbol of peace and tranquillity. Hope it will snow soon. I LOVE IT HERE.

DEC. 2 It snowed last night. Woke up to find everything blanketed in white. It looked like a postcard. Went outside and cleaned snow off the steps and shoveled the driveway. We had a snowball fight today (I won). When the snowplow came by we had to shovel the driveway again. What a beautiful place. Mother Nature in perfect harmony. Took some great pictures of winter scenes. I LOVE IT HERE.

DEC. 12 More snow last night. I love it. The snowplow did his trick again (that rascal). A winter wonderland. I LOVE IT HERE.

DEC. 19 Snowed again last night. Couldn’t get out of the driveway to get to work this time. I’m exhausted from shoveling. Damn Snowplow!

DEC. 22 More of that white sh*t fell last night. I’ve got blisters on my hands from shoveling. I think the snowplow hides around the corner and waits until I’m done shoveling. That *!&%!!!

DEC. 25 “White Christmas” my busted ss. More snow. If I ever get my hands on that son-of-a-(%)! who drives that snowplow, I swear I will strike the dumb bastard. Don’t know why they don’t use more salt on this freaking ice.

I hate this place!

DEC. 28 More of the same sht last night. Been inside since Christmas day except for when “Snowplow Harry” comes by. Can’t go anywhere. The car is buried in a mountain of white sht. The weatherman says expect another 10 inches of this sh*t tonight. Do you know how many shovels full of snow 10 inches is?

JAN. 1 Happy freaking New Year!. The weatherman was wrong (AGAIN). We got (75 cm) 34 inches of snow this time. At this rate it won’t melt until the 4th of July. The snowplow got stuck down the road and sht for brains had the balls to come to the door and ask to borrow my shovel. I told him I broke 6 shovels already, shoveling out the sht he plowed into my driveway. I broke the 7th shovel over his head.

JAN. 4 Finally got out of the house today. Went to the store to get food and on the way back a deer ran out in front of the car and I hit the damn *#! deer. Did about $3,000.00 damage to the car. Wish the hunters would have killed them all last November.

MAY 3 Took the car to the garage in town today. Would you believe the body is rotting away from all the salt they keep dumping all over the roads. It really looks like a piece of sh*t.

MAY 10 Moving to Florida today. I can’t imagine why anyone in their right mind would want to live in this God forsaken place. The early settlers must have been crazy!

Going South

Hangover Cures

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On New Year’s Eve I always look forward to the next 12 months with hope for a prosperous and happy year. This usually lasts until just before my hangover kicks in! (JC)

 A hangover is the wrath of grapes.  ~Author Unknown

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. 

~Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

  ~W.C. Fields

Suffering due to too much Fun?

Beer is the cause and solution to all of life’s problems.  ~Homer Simpson

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.  ~Henny Youngman

I’m going to be around until the Atomic Energy Commission finds a safe place to bury my liver.  ~Phil Harris

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.  ~Seneca

A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her.  ~W.C. Fields

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death. ~ Robert Benchley

You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative. ~ Mike Tyson

If you had too much fun on St. Patrick’s Day, New Year’s Eve, or any day of the year, then try one or more of these cures which may help you recover from the dreaded HANGOVER.

Want to avoid a hangover or terrible headache? Eat a few cucumber slices before going to bed and wake up refreshed and headache free. Cucumbers contain enough sugar, B vitamins and electrolytes to replenish essential nutrients the body lost, keeping everything in equilibrium, avoiding both a hangover and headache!!

Hangover Helper!

Read more about the Amazing Cucumber at:

 http://www.e-forwards.com/2009/12/the-amazing-cucumber/

Other suggestions:

Just in time for New Year’s Eve revelers, the FDA has approved the ”the other morning after pill.”

The pill was comprised of “aspirin, caffeine, and a medicine to calm your stomach. Amazingly, it reportedly works in 15 minutes as well.

This newest, and highly touted hangover cure is called Blowfish and is expected to be in drug stores shortly. The US Food and Drug Administration has given it the okay to be sold over-the-counter. Its creator, Brenna Haysom, explains that the tablets consist of 1,000 milligrams of aspirin, 120 milligrams of caffeine and a stomach-soothing agent split up into two effervescent tablets to be taken the morning after a night of heavy drinking. Despite the product slogan, ‘Own the night. Save the day’ Miss Haysom denies that the treatment promotes binge drinking and she doesn’t encourage overuse, adding ‘I definitely don’t encourage people to get obliterated.’ 

More hangover “CURES”

# Painkillers and Antacids
Alcohol is an irritant to the stomach, so aspirin and ibuprofen (also irritants) may make matters worse. Over-the-counter antacids will protect your stomach lining and ease acid indigestion. Meanwhile, a couple of Tylenol should quell that brain-splitting headache.

# Back to Bed
You drank way too much, so you deserve a good rest. This is especially good if you can find someone to wait on your every need.

# Tomatoes
Hangover sufferers regularly eat tomatoes (soup, pasta sauce, raw, etc.) to ease their symptoms. They’re rich in vitamin C, which gets depleted after a night of drinking. This may explain why the classic morning-after drink, Bloody Mary, is so popular.

# Hair of the Dog

Did you know that Jan. 1 is also National Bloody Mary Day? Nothing helps a hangover like a little “hair of the dog,”
This is not one for the faint-hearted. Research has shown that it works – but only temporarily. While your body is busy dealing with a new intake of booze, it suspends its torture. But once you stop drinking you’re likely to go back to hangover hell.

# Fruit Juice
Juice, especially freshly-squeezed, works well because it replaces lost vitamins, the fruit sugar (fructose) boosts your energy levels, and it may play a part in speeding up your body’s toxin-ridding process.



# Roll in the Hay
When you’ve tried all else (better still, before) get together with, or on top of, the one you love. The exercise will get your blood flowing. And the rest, well you know what that does. When you’re done, you can down a big drink of water and slip back into a peaceful slumber.

This just might be the best Hangover cure! It’s taken years of field research to arrive at this conclusion!!!!!

Or you may wish to Give Up Drinking. These Ladies may convince you that you should!!!

http://www.e-forwards.com/2010/08/would-you-give-up-drinking/

HAPPY NATIONAL BLOODY MARY DAY

January 1 is National Bloody Mary Day ~ what a great idea!

Too much fun on on New Year’s Eve?

The Bloody Mary should help. The tomato juice provides a variety of vitamins and nutrients to combat the damages of excessive alcohol consumption.

It dates back to 1921, when bartender Fernand Petiot served its originator at Harry’s Bar in Paris, before moving to the United States and creating a spicier version with the addition of Tabasco in 1933 at the Regis Bar in New York. And thus the brunchtime hair of the dog was born.

Here’s the classic Bloody Mary recipe.  Enjoy!

1 1/2 ounces (1 jigger) vodka
1/2 cup tomato juice
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
Worcestershire sauce to taste
Tabasco to taste
1 celery stick for garnish
1 lemon wedge for garnish

Combine the vodka, the tomato juice, the lemon juice, the Worcestershire sauce, the Tabasco, 1 cup ice cubes, and salt and pepper to

taste, shake the mixture well, and strain it into a tall glass filled with ice cubes. Garnish the Bloody Mary with the celery stick and the lemon wedge.

 SERVES 1

You may also want ~ need to try the following cures at:

http://www.e-forwards.com/2011/12/hanover-cures/

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