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[psyched_out]

a little under 2 hours to go on the east coast, and everyone else in the family is asleep right now, so its time for me to announce my resolutions for 2006 - i have to say i'm a little drunk on samuel smith nut brown ale right now (the winner in this week's taste test of british brown ales, defeating collegiate favorite newcastle and hobgoblin), so

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[geebs]

#10? Corny!!!! But seriously though, that shouldn't be a problem for you. Yer a good man, Charlie Brown. Besides, you even have (well, once anyways) a T-shirt saying so! Just don't get into arguments with guys named Mandelbaum being all "Oh, so you think you're the greatest dad in the world?"!

[psyched_out]

had i known my fate, i would've kept that t-shirt - maybe it had some kind of magic power truly making me the greatest dad in the world?

[xantha]

happy 2006 to you, S, and A! :)

[psyched_out]

thanks and right back at you & N!

as we say it here....

[dashoka]

sae hae bok man yi ba de sae yo (literally "may you receive many blessings in this new year". oh not 100% sure on the romaniztion either).

bell ringing? we do it here too, i was wondering why but i'm guessing despite the widespread christianity here, we can't always escape our buddhist roots. our bell-ringing experience is mostly made up of cramming at GwangHwaMoon and then doing the bell-ringing. after that, it's too crowded to take public transport back and the roads are jammed for a couple of hours. being the lazy bum that i am, i stayed at home and watched it on tv. go me!

-joseph

Re: as we say it here....

[psyched_out]

i think the way it works, the temples are set up so that the bells can be rung a maximum of 108 times (some buddhist thing about there being 108 devils in the world or something like that, with each ring driving one of them out if i remember it correctly), which took about 90 minutes in temple-happy kamakura - the trains normally stop running at midnight in japan, but they run all night for the new year, albeit in 30-minute increments - we ended up visiting the temples with an 80-year-old tea ceremony master, who invited us to have a tea ceremony following the ringing - by the time we made it out of her place it was past 3am, and then we just missed the 3:30 train at the station - we both fell asleep on the next train, and woke up just as we thought we were about to miss our station - as it turned out, we got out one station too early - saying "fuck it", we called S' mom who just drove to the other station to pick us up around 5am - so looking back, it was a pretty crazy time, albeit one i can't wait to do again with a 1-year-old

Lurker reveals herself to fulfil new years resolution

[anonymous]

I found your live journal about six months ago and have been reading it regularly ever since. As one of my new years resolutions is to comment regularly on the blogs that I always read I figured I should start right now, with you! So lovely to hear all your news - and congrats on your little girl! I imagine she's just gorgeous but I haven't managed to look at a picture of her yet...

Happy new year from your old slack friend Amber in Australia!

PS. Good luck with the resolutions. I'm totally with you on the flossing - I also engage in a bout of frantic catch-up flossing when I have a dentist appt. I also lie to him but based on the look he gives me I figure he always knows.

Re: Lurker reveals herself to fulfil new years resolution

[psyched_out]

hello lurker!

so nice to hear from you again after all these years - is this our first communication in the 21st century?

i was just thinking of you too - i posted that tomine/poisoning story as a comment to a friend's journal the other day - i remember it more these days from the big smoke angle than from my own memories...

my email address is on my userinfo page - if you'd like, just write to it and give me a big life update & i'll send some pictures your way! 2006 is off to a good start already...

[cola_fan]

Noble, sir. I wish you all the luck in these goals.

[psyched_out]

well, i got the bleeding gums this morning, so at least i'm onto the flossing!

daily journal has been kept - i'm also logging how much money i spend, what i'm spending it on, what i'm eating (it'll help with realizing when i'm in a rut and need to branch out in the kitchen), and what albums i've listened to (as if everything else wasn't anal retentive enough)...

can't decide who to donate to this month - and i want to make sure that i donate to an organization that can actually do something productive with the money - curiously one of the top stories in yahoo right now is about the crisis in the democratic republic of congo being the worst in the world, yet they offer no links on how to contribute - i know that they're talking about aid in the sense of countries donating millions of dollars, but all the same...