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New Year’s Resolutions I Probably Won’t Keep
I might grow bangs, to hide my wrinkled brow, but what if I look like Lucy, in Peanuts.
Yes.
To start drinking again, after dark only, so if I make an ass out of myself, it’s less likely to make the papers.
If that doesn’t work out, how bout a bird? Fish? Okay, a plant. I do tend to overkill anything green, bringing me to my casual spending.
Of course it’s a he. A woman would never…
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Take my advice. Two cats is so worth it. And they won’t drop the dime on you if you partake of a frendly beverage after dark.
Happy New Year SB
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You’re up early. Yes, cats are very discriminate. They also will be happy to lick all evidence off that glass.
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These two learned their lessons from dogs. Seriously, they greet me when I come home. They fetch. When I’m cooking, they lay on the floor in the kitchen. I won’t drop the dime on them because I’m sure the Feline Society would revoke their cards.
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I just had this Norman Rockwell/ Clemenza teaching Michael to make sauce image of you at the stove with a couple of waggy sou chefs in attendance. 🙂
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You see? You staht out with a lil bit a oil. Then you fry some gahlic, then you trow in some tomatas and tomata paste, ya fry it, ya make shuah it doesn’t stick . . .when you got it to a boil you shove in all ya sausage and ya meatballs . . . and a lil bit a wine, and a lil bit of shugah . .and that’s my trick . . .
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I KNEW you’d mimic Clemenza. Would have made a hefty wager on it. HA…:)
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I know you knew, LOL
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I laughed so when I read it. Too bad we weren’t on a quiz show…we’d a won, as I massacre the English language once again.
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And we’d have celebrated with cannolis.
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Neat, no ice. 🙂
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Just the way I like it.
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You’re so easy to please Mr. Imma. One likes that in a man. 🙂
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Women usually know best.
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Unless it has to do with the cable box. 🙂
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Haha!
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That was fun. Happy new year !
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If I made you laugh, then I’m a happy girl. Thanks. Happy New Year to you too, Ms. Bell. 🙂
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You did. 😀
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🙂
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Susannah, when you sign up on the dating site, ask for a retired fisherman. That way all the salmon won’t be an issue, ha ha!
And never give up reading during the day. I have to reread the last page or two of what I read at night because I was too tired to assimilate it.
Cats aren’t like dogs. They don’t need or often want a companion cat. There are tons of older cats at the shelter who don’t get homes. I vote for a cat. Based on the white Persian my Godchild asked me to take, I recommend a short haired kitty. Although I would never do it to a cat myself, there are even declawed cats up for adoption. My youngest daughter adopted one.
New Year’s resolutions should be outlawed. Let’s just try to be better humans.
Have a happy and healthy New Year, Susannah.
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Yes, to be better humans indeed. Should be part of that stimulus package that’s still squawking.
I miss having a cat, though Patrick has been a great pal visiting now and then. And yes, a fisherman would be a great boon except, I then might increase my salmon intake to twice a day and may indeed grow gills. Do ya think they’d look okay with my wrinkles?
Happy New Year Skinny, to you, Pookie, and your 4-legged family as well as your kids and grandkids. Thanks always for your attendance in my life. Sincerely, Susannah
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Have a lovely and safe 2021. All the best for the coming year 🎆🎆🎆
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And to you John, and thank you always. Susannah 🙂
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I enjoyed your resolutions, Susannah. From experience, cats come pretty much potty trained. They also make the best listeners, and when they detect crazy talk, they tend to walk away. (A sure sign of STFU time.) A very Happy New Year wish to you.
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I’m talking about the actual potty, not a litter box. You know, where they pop into the loo and close the store. Is that so much for a thin girl to ask? sigh…:)
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Might be a little more difficult. No, not too much to ask. The answer may take time. 😁
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I’m giggling.
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Good to know.
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A good laugh is better than sex, well…over 60 anyway. 🙂
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I can say I’ve had more good laughs than sex so I have to agree. 😁
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You’re so funny John. My best foil. 🙂
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Foil? Are you talking about the hat I wear to intercept the alien signals to my brain? How did you know? Happy New Year, Susannah. 😁
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I was thinking more Bud and Lou and how we change roles often enough to show off our silly versatility. But an Alcoa hat works too. 🙂
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I knew the former I just had to play Lou on the foil. 😊
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You’d be Abbott since, you’re not quite as ridiculous as me. Thanks God!!! WHO’S ON FIRST…:)
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What’s on second and I Don’t Know is on third.
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I just loved that. They were so hilarious.
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They were. I loved Bud’s faces during the bit.
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How he kept it straight next to Lou’s is art at its purest.
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Yes. Playing straight without laughing out loud must ave been a tough assignment.
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I’ll say.
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It’s doable… my aunt’s in-laws trained their cats to do just that!
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Now that’s the cat’s meow in my book. 🙂
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It is! Don’t think I’d have the patience to train them, though!
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Zeke could do it. Who’d say no to him. WOOF!
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Hah! He’s too much of a softie 😉
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Who ya callin’ a softie Ma…I’m German remember.
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Yeah well… as an older German, you’ve gentled… 😉
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Is that what happens? Hmm. Well, just let someone attempt to do you harm, and I’ll bet that puppy in him would be out in a shot. 🙂
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In his case. And I’m sure if push came to shove, he’d do what he could!
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I’d say. He’s your Jilly Rizzo, with a tail. Who’s that? Sinatra’s main man. 🙂
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Thanks! I was about to google but you kindly supplied 😉
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He’s even buried, right behind him, in Palm Springs. How’s that for loyalty.
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Oh wow. That is lovely.
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What’s that Zeke? Darn tootin’…:)
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You got it! 🙂
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Your mop isn’t the only one chuckling this morning!
All the best for a happy, healthy, and peaceful 2021!
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To you too Top. 2020 has been rough globally and personally especially for you, so here’s to a happier 2021 across the board. So nice always to hear from you.
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A friend did a 20 for 20 list — 20 things she wanted to do in 2020. She now has me and a couple of our other friends doing 21 for 21. So far, I’ve come up with ten or eleven things. We’ll see how it goes. My list is far less interesting than yours.
Here’s to you having a wonderful 2021!!!
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And to you as well.
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I quit resolutions years ago and have been happier for it.
Happy New Year!
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Good advice. 🙂
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Always a good idea to come up with some non-resolutions. 😊 Happy New Year, Susannah.
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To you too Eilene. See ya next year. 🙂
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As far as resolutions go, these sounds absolutely doable 😉 Err… wait. no reading during the day? No, that won’t work. Cleaning more often? Why? There are books to be read! Really? That much salmon? Have you grown gills yet?
Happy 2021 to you, Susannah.
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I could eat salmon three times a day. Happy New Year to you Dale, and I know it will be a better one….a hunch. 🙂
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It is a delicious fish, to be sure and certain 🙂
Thank you. It will be what I will make of it. Which I will do my damndest to be good! 🙂
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I like it raw best. Been having the same lunch forever…a quinoa roll…salmon, avocado, carrots and cucumber wrapped in seaweed. . Damn, it’s only 5 a.m. and now I want one. sigh
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I love it raw, too. It’s funny how some things we never tire of.
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I just had tuna instead and it’s just not as good. I was given a very handsome Salad Nicoise by my friend at the Gourmet Store, but, like most things, it looked better than it was. Salmon tomorrow. Can’t wait. 🙂
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Mmmm…. too bad it wasn’t as good as I do love a nice piece of Tuna.
Enjoy tomorrow’s! 🙂
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I like what I like, even if it’s repetitive. I’m never disappointed with that roll. That salad however…meh…but the olives were good. Too much lettuce, even for a rabbit. I guess it’s a way of charging more, though mine was a freebee. oh well…salmon, comin’ up. 🙂
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Nothing wrong with that, I say.
Nothing like “filler” with the lettuce.
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Too much greenery for my taste…pun intended. 🙂
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Hahaha! I get that! 🙂
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To quote Sorryless…that’s very punny. 🙂
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😉
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Susannah,
I so want to hear your online dating stories – so please do sign up for that! If anything it will give you plenty of comedy material. 🙂
You are so classy and sophisticated that you would look great with gray hair, while the rest of us would just look old and lazy.
Wishing you a blessed 2021! ♥♥
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Only men seem to pull of gray hair, and a Poodle I know named Bess. I wish you a very Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year laced with Optimism and Good Cheer. Always a pleasure hearing from you. 🙂
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I have two cats. They are so different from each other !! They have their own little personalities and can be a handful but they are so loving ! The way 2020 was I think it should be a law that we are allowed a beer a day !
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That so made me laugh. I’m sure Patrick, the tiger cat next door, would agree. He has that pirate look anyway, like any minute he’ll say…hullo matey, any Guinness in the house?
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Gang aft a-gley
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Is that Latin?
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Scots, a la Robert Burns. It’s proceeded in the poem “To a mouse” by “The best laid plans of mice and men” which, you will recognise, was used by Steinbeck.
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Never knew where his title came from. Love that. 🙂
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I love your list.
Me? I won’t make my resolutions till the year gets to kicking. Why promise myself to a new year when I don’t know it quite yet?
Happy New Year
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I certainly get that, even with my humor up to its sly tricks. One thing I’m mastering is gratitude. With all the uncontrollable shit that’s going on, there are still blessings swirling around. I remember in my old place, the boiler never worked and I was quite accustomed to sleeping in my coat. Every morning I wake up to heat and hot water, not like before when it was like living in the Congo. That alone is worth a novena. 🙂
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Gratitude and humility are so woefully lacking, or at least it seems that way a lot of the time.
And as I always say, if we all just took a breath and allowed perspective to work its magic on us, we would be much more thankful for everything we have.
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I’m the queen of gratitude. I thank God for a piece of gum. 🙂
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I see that. Definitely.
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It’s the way to go, takin’ that highway where there’s least traffic.
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Definitely.
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THIS was so funny 🙂 appreciate the funny in your plans as laughter has been my best co-pilot 🙂 ha in fact I think that was the title of one of my posts ha! But you made me remember it so for that I thank you 🙂 Have a good one.
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That’s a great name for a post. Why not re-blog it. 🙂
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I’m paranoid about making New Year’s resolutions anymore, as if saying that will make me not do them. I still do, I just don’t articulate them as such.
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They do seem to be futile as if they hold no weight. Reminds me of that Lincoln quote…the bottom has fallen out of the tub. 🙂
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