Resolution Report Card

Here we are on the cusp of 2112 and I still haven't finished cleaning out that hall closet. Then I remembered my list of resolutions for 2011 and I wondered how I did. Here's the score.

Clean the garage--yes
Re-roof the decorative well in the back yard--yes
Find Sasquatch--no
Lose a couple of pounds--yes
Inherit a diamond mine--no
Plant tomatoes--yes
Pick tomatoes--yes
Eat tomatoes--yes
Save some tomatoes for later--no
Improve my handwriting--no
IMporve my typingg--no
Learn six new jigs--yes
Learn to make a nutritious pie from grass clippings and corn starch--no
Visit the Rock Hall--yes
Get inducted into the Rock Hall--no
Finish a book--yes
Not reading, writing--okay no
Sing out of tune--yes
Have you stand up and walk out on me--yes
Find a good challah recipe--no
Eat a lot of so-so challah--yes
Keep my shoulder to the wheel and my nose to the grindstone--yes
Submit medical claims for injuries to shoulder and nose--yes
Shower the people I love with love--not nearly enough. I am, after all, a work in progress.

Have a good New Year everyone. See you on the other side.

Today we learn a new phrase

'Anticipatory grief.' In this excellent guest blog post (not my guest, not my blog, I did a lot of borrowing here), the multi-talented Dale Wisely talks about pets and worry and, well, I'll let you read the rest.

The Blogapalooza Report Card

As much as I had wanted to finish Blogapalooza with a flourish on the final day, it just didn't work out. What happened is I sort of put it off to the end, and then I sort of fell asleep. So let's give ourselves marks for the month.

Intentions: A+ (always the best of intentions)
Sticktuitivness: B-
Educational value: D
Entertainment value: A++ (I'm easily entertained)
Social value: D-
Value as a percentage of the GNP: .00000000000000000000000001
Political acuity: not observed
Carbon footprint: C (I could have turned off my computer between postings)
Spelling: A
Typos: B+
Grammar: A- (I'm sure there are things Mrs. Kirby, my 7th grade English teacher, would have corrected)
Punctuation: B (Downgrading for my inexplicable fondness for nested (like this) parentheses))
Design: C (Hey, it's a template!)
Voice: B (It sounds a lot like me (wait, maybe that's a bad thing))
Use of hyperlinks: C-
Avoidance of cliches: A- (without re-reading I bet one slipped through)
Incorporation of references to animal and/or the Aurora Kennel: B+
Incorporation of important cultural icons: D+ (I did mention National Vicheyssoise Day after all)
Meeting the requirement for embedding at least one video: A
Meeting the requirement for mentioning recently passed boxing legends: A
Meeting the requirement for mentioning the Kardashians: F
Never missing more than two days: F
Never missing more than 6 days: A
Reading other people's blogs: C
Commenting on other people's blogs: D
Liking other peoples' blogs even though I didn't read them as much as I'd hoped: A
Minimizing embarrassing posts about my family: A

Final Grade: (using the dart board protocol) B+

Thanks for reading. We promise to post more.