Shh? No! Speak up!

Get it together, Marcia. There are things to be done. Get them done. At least make it look like you are trying to do them because then you may just accidentally get them done without meaning to. Your personal world will actually be a better place to spend time in.

If you are a procrastinator or love doing other things more than what you need to be doing, feel free so substitute your name below and read it out loud to yourself.

Get it together, ________. There are things to be done. Get them done. At least make it look like you are trying to do them because then you may just accidentally get them done without meaning to. Your personal world will actually be a better place to spend time in.

(Happy first non-holiday of 2007!)

What if you were to learn to ‘party’ without alcohol (or drugs)? What if you showed the world or your family you could celebrate an occasion without alcohol (or drugs)? What if you actually went to dinner without drinking?

You may just find out that it could ACTUALLY be fun. Then maybe the next time you could drink a bit less and have just as much fun. . .

I bet your body would love to see the less is more rule upheld. . . at least more often than not.

P.S. it really can be done, have fun without drinking in excess, that is. . .

What if you were to learn to ‘party’ without alcohol (or drugs)? What if you showed the world or your family you could celebrate an occasion without alcohol (or drugs)? What if you actually went to dinner without drinking?

You may just find out that it could ACTUALLY be fun. Then maybe the next time you could drink a bit less and have just as much fun. . .

I bet your body would love to see the less is more rule upheld. . . at least more often than not.

P.S. it really can be done, have fun without drinking in excess, that is. . .

Gifts make most of us smile, right? Used to, anyway. You listened to hints dropped or just gave it the old college try and bought something you thought the recipient would love. Sometimes, many times, you guessed right. In the ‘old days’ (I’m old enough to say it now!) the gift, if not really wanted, would be kept or stored away, and maybe, just maybe, years later it would be disposed of. Occasionally someone would have a good excuse to take it back.

But now people are encouraged to ‘regift’ or exchange gifts on a regular basis. OK, in the scheme of not having things you really don’t want or need, that is not such a bad thing, but for some of us it has taken the magic and the joy out of gift giving. People find themselves specifying the exact gift they want you to buy. You can’t find it or can’t afford it and end up giving a gift card or cash (not that that does not have its place occasionally, but every time?). For many it has merely become the exchange of gift cards which tells the receiver exactly how much the giver has spent — and some people try to equalize it — and you are basically exchanging cash. What is the point?

Gifts make most of us smile, right? Used to, anyway. You listened to hints dropped or just gave it the old college try and bought something you thought the recipient would love. Sometimes, many times, you guessed right. In the ‘old days’ (I’m old enough to say it now!) the gift, if not really wanted, would be kept or stored away, and maybe, just maybe, years later it would be disposed of. Occasionally someone would have a good excuse to take it back.

But now people are encouraged to ‘regift’ or exchange gifts on a regular basis. OK, in the scheme of not having things you really don’t want or need, that is not such a bad thing, but for some of us it has taken the magic and the joy out of gift giving. People find themselves specifying the exact gift they want you to buy. You can’t find it or can’t afford it and end up giving a gift card or cash (not that that does not have its place occasionally, but every time?). For many it has merely become the exchange of gift cards which tells the receiver exactly how much the giver has spent — and some people try to equalize it — and you are basically exchanging cash. What is the point?