Friday Five / This Year...

Friday, Jan. 02, 2004 - 6:27 a.m.

I will work on myself, inside and out.

I will come to terms with the bad parts of myself, and find the good parts.

I will accept responsibility for the bad decisions I made last year -- and let them go.

I will rise from the ashes of defeat, fear, abandonment, deception and loss.

I will remember that life will take care of me if I only let it.

I will become reacquainted with my spirituality.

I will refuse to be treated like a mushroom (being kept in the dark and being fed a bunch of shit).

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Kindly notice that I didn't make any impossible statements such as promising myself to lose weight or not cut my bangs myself. I've learned that those are impossible when they are specifically focused upon, at least for me, and I figure if I do the rest of the stuff I say I'm going to do, that those other things will just sort of happen on their own. :)

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Knock on formica, we didn't lose our power on New Years' Day, although we did lose it twice in the previous week.

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I was pleased to see our president speak about beef consumption in front of the cameras.

Hey, World -- we're America, dammit. Our meat belongs in your mouth. :)

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I see where Steve Irwin took his one-month old son Bob into the enclosure when it was time to feed the crocodiles. I'm waiting to hear the same hue and cry from the public that was so vehement when Michael Jackson dangled his progeny over that balcony. Crikey!

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If all goes well, I get to go to IKEA today. Yay! Candles! Sales! Cutesy little picture frames!...

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This week's Friday Five: (Questions are boldface, my answers appear beneath.)

What one thing are you most looking forward to . . .

...today?

A: Making a good dinner. And staying up late and running into the usual overnight suspects online.

...over the next week?

A: Talking with friends to see how they survived their holiday.

...this year?

A: Visiting Colorado.

...over the next five years?

A: Seeing the Erasure Fraud and all of his / her / its little minions finally be arrested for fraud and conspiracy. Because even if *I* don't have enough pull to see this is done, somebody out there does.

...for the rest of your life?

A: To never be afraid to enjoy my life. To always believe that love is good and pain is inevitable but that we're all here to help each other and endorphins are wherever you may find them.

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