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Your New Year's Resolution
12-29-2007, 08:55 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Your New Year's Resolution
Mine is to spend about two hours per day on piano sight-reading and get much better at it. I play 2-4 jazz gigs a month, but my sight-reading is terrible. I rarely need it, if ever, but I feel like a fake if I can't read well.
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12-29-2007, 08:59 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Central MS/Orange Beach, AL
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Not to lose money. Low expectations I know. 
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Investing style: Full time wuss.
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12-29-2007, 09:48 AM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Sarasota,fl.
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I'm going to try things I've always wanted to do .I'm starting with pottery and beading and yoga.I hope to also find some new women friends .My SO is my best friend but sometimes you just want a woman to gab with.
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12-29-2007, 01:37 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
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Location: minnesota
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Originally Posted by Moemg
I'm going to try things I've always wanted to do .I'm starting with pottery and beading and yoga.I hope to also find some new women friends .My SO is my best friend but sometimes you just want a woman to gab with.
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Stop by and we can do some beading projects. Or better yet, maybe I'll stop by.
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12-29-2007, 01:49 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
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I don't really make New Year's resolutions, since my resolve lasts for years and decades.
But I DO have a New Year's plan for 2008.
- My plan is to work on fixing up my house to sell (in 2009), and to pare down my possessions in preparation for the move.
- At the same time, I want to start shifting my portfolio heavily towards my ER portfolio plans and away from my present accumulation phase allocations and balance. I started this yesterday and will shift it a little more each month.
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12-29-2007, 01:54 PM
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Gone but not forgotten
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Martha
Stop by and we can do some beading projects. Or better yet, maybe I'll stop by.
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Stop by next time you are in town !
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12-29-2007, 04:53 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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Location: San Diego
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I pursued two romantic relationships that went nowhere in '07. I'm looking to improve on that in '08.
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12-29-2007, 04:57 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by califdreamer
I pursued two romantic relationships that went nowhere in '07. I'm looking to improve on that in '08.
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Sometimes pursuing drives away the target, maybe let the target come to you??
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This Thread is USELESS without pics.........:)
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12-29-2007, 05:01 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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Location: San Diego
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Originally Posted by FinanceDude
Sometimes pursuing drives away the target, maybe let the target come to you??
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Ahh, Zen and the art of dating. In one case I perhaps pursued too diligently and in the other case I just lost interest. I agree there is in dating just as in life a middle way that usually proves to be the proper course.
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12-29-2007, 08:53 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Location: Independence
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Quote:
Originally Posted by califdreamer
I pursued two romantic relationships that went nowhere in '07. I'm looking to improve on that in '08.
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Go for three? (badda biff)
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12-30-2007, 12:14 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: San Diego
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I'm gettng a little embarrassed here. How are those Resolutions coming along for everyone else out there? 
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12-30-2007, 12:32 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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I will be working on all 4...the hardest being the relationship one....I just don't have patience for the dating....hate dressing up, trying to eat cautiously, making small talk, and all that!
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12-30-2007, 07:27 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Location: Kansas City
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Party harder - because it will be my 15th year of ER - and I'm not getting any younger . Does turning 65 make one a regular old phart or perhaps - a senior ER?
Spend more cause my portfolio is still going up and I heard you can't take it with you - right?
heh heh heh -
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12-30-2007, 08:34 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Work less 
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12-30-2007, 12:11 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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P.S. - Health, Wealth and Happiness!
My guest blond from Alabama(formerly 36 yrs in New Orleans) is cooking for a few of us exiles.
Translation: Cabbage, pork and black eyed peas with a penny in them.
Fried cabbage with black pepper(not cayenne), marinated pork chops( have done pork roast in the Past) and peas/jalapeno pepper(some use bacon bits or ham or snaps) with perhaps some dashes of LSU Tiger Sauce for zip.
heh heh heh - live to eat not eat to live.
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12-30-2007, 12:38 PM
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What's the penny for?
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12-30-2007, 12:49 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Too soon to decide. I plan on waiting until 2008 to make such a complex decision.
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In dire need of: faster horses, younger woman, older whiskey, more money.
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12-30-2007, 01:08 PM
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- Lose fiddy lbs.
- Be able to run 2 miles (1/2 way there now)
- Sell current house
- Once house is sold, pay cash for smaller house, which will enable us to max out all the retirement accounts (TSP, 401k, 2x ROTH IRAs)
- Pay off all other debts & remain debt free forever
- I'm sure I can think of some more...........
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12-30-2007, 01:18 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rambler
What's the penny for?
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lagniappe - for luck!
heh heh heh - heck I don't know. 
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12-30-2007, 01:37 PM
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I am going to declutter and try to be more organized around the house.
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