When I was younger, I didn't really think about "resolutions." What for? I resolve to make money and have fun! That was about it. But for some reason, as I get older, these resolutions seem to be needed in order to help me focus on things I'd like to accomplish in the future. Maybe I just didn't didn't have a need to focus when I was young, after all, life focused me all by itself. Go to school. Get a job. Pay off your student loans. Simple. Basic.
Now I think I need to put some focus out there in front of me. Big things that need to be accomplished, because I'm not getting any younger, and someday it will be too late for me to do them. Either my brain won't work as well, or my body, or it'll just be curtains completely!
I don't know what I want to accomplish for 2011. Lose Weight. Of course. When have I not been working on that? A few years back my friends and I decided we'd have our own book club, and select books to read and discuss. (We all live in different states, so we'd just get together and have chats online.) It was a great idea...and it never went anywhere. We put for the effort, but we just couldn't get our acts together. I ended buying us all a magnet for the Bad Girls Book Club. (Amazon didn't show the magnet, but they have a print here. (Why they have the photo sideways, I don't know, but it says "Bad Girls Book Club" Where half the group doesn't read the book and the other half doesn't show up.)
Makes me laugh even now because it fit us all perfectly.
Books are big for me. I'd like to read more, but I just don't make the time to do it. I come up with a lot of excuses, but never get anywhere. About 18 feet behind me right now is a wall of books. I'd guess there are about 600 books sitting there, just waiting to be read. (I've read some, but not even 25% of them.) I'd be happy if I could read two books in the new year.
So here I sit and ponder what it is I'd like to accomplish in 2011, and what it is that I actually will accomplish.
What to do in 2011? Does anyone have their list ready to go?
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Thursday, December 23, 2010
I think I have to become a Twitter-er
Yes, it's December 23, and rather than think about all the Christmas-y things I need to be thinking about, I am considering signing up for Twitter. Not for personal reasons really. I don't have much to say, and I don't have a lot of friends to say it to.
My first encounter with Twitter was for a client. She signed me up with Co-Tweet so I could post for her business. Well, that didn't go very well. I was new to the whole Twitter thing, and didn't grasp the concept. Quite frankly, I still don't. I mean, isn't it just that Twitter has taken the FB and MySpace "status" and created a site just for status - and nothing more?
Anyway, I didn't do a great job posting because I didn't know what to post - or how to post. Since then, I've created a Twitter account for the non-profit I'm involved with. I post - well, I cheat. I post to Facebook and then that posts to Twitter. But does anyone read Twitter? Because I don't. So all those people I'm following who are posting - they're posting on deaf ears. (or eyes!)
Now I've had some time to post, and now I'm posting updates for a new client. While I still don't feel like I know why Twitter is so great, I am a much better poster. But now - maybe it's time to get my own account. Maybe from my own business standpoint. Because from a personal standpoint - meh. I have a lot of teenage nieces and nephews, and none of them use Twitter. So it doesn't seem like much of a "teen" thing. Maybe it is all about business.
Who knows. I'll try it. It'll give me an excuse to be able to post comments to Tosh.0. No wait, let me see if I can get this right.... @danieltosh - is that how I write it?
My first encounter with Twitter was for a client. She signed me up with Co-Tweet so I could post for her business. Well, that didn't go very well. I was new to the whole Twitter thing, and didn't grasp the concept. Quite frankly, I still don't. I mean, isn't it just that Twitter has taken the FB and MySpace "status" and created a site just for status - and nothing more?
Anyway, I didn't do a great job posting because I didn't know what to post - or how to post. Since then, I've created a Twitter account for the non-profit I'm involved with. I post - well, I cheat. I post to Facebook and then that posts to Twitter. But does anyone read Twitter? Because I don't. So all those people I'm following who are posting - they're posting on deaf ears. (or eyes!)
Now I've had some time to post, and now I'm posting updates for a new client. While I still don't feel like I know why Twitter is so great, I am a much better poster. But now - maybe it's time to get my own account. Maybe from my own business standpoint. Because from a personal standpoint - meh. I have a lot of teenage nieces and nephews, and none of them use Twitter. So it doesn't seem like much of a "teen" thing. Maybe it is all about business.
Who knows. I'll try it. It'll give me an excuse to be able to post comments to Tosh.0. No wait, let me see if I can get this right.... @danieltosh - is that how I write it?
Friday, December 3, 2010
I Miss Talk Shows
I don't know why, but today I'm missing talk shows. (Notice how I'm avoiding the fact that I haven't posted in a couple of months?) Real talk shows. If you're around my age, you should be able to remember a time on TV when you could flip between several channel and stop on at least one talk show with some good topics. Not now. At least, not on my TV.
I grew up watching Mike Douglas (I was little - my mom watched it, and I watched with her). And then there was Phil Donahue. And then Giraldo, Sally Jess Raphael, and a slew of others whose names I can't remember. But there was always something on - someone wanting to talk about something. What killed the talk show?
Was it Morton Downey Jr.? I happened to be in New York before we got syndicated and I saw his show. I couldn't believe it. I just remember thinking "I can't believe they allow this on television!" Was it this over-the-top, brutal interrogation show that killed the regular talk show? Because soon after, Jerry Springer came to being. Well, that's not true. Jerry was there, having intelligent conversations, but then it started to go zany. And then zany was "in." The more shocking, the better, and who really cared if it was a true story or not?
Now, before I get any further, let me just say something about Oprah. I don't like. I don't watch her. She's all show and no substance. I don't like that people treat her as some type of god, and that she acts that way, too. So, I'm excluding her form of "talk show" from my blog. Boo Oprah. (Go ahead and chastise me. I won't mind.)
So, zany. Shocking. possibly true or untrue. Did that kill the talk show? Did that start the whole "reality TV" thing which killed the ability to talk to real people about real topics?
I know, I know - there's still Dr. Phil and Tyra. Let me say, I'm not a Dr. Phil fan, but at least most of the time he keeps to the traditional format, and that I can appreciate. So I watch. Tyra - well, I love America's Next Top Model (yes, I'm feeding into the reality TV machine). Her talk show - eh. All right. I've watched it. But, she's done so there's no sense talking about her.
So, if anyone out there reads this, let me know your thoughts on the whole non-talk show epidemic. Maybe there are local talk shows still going on. (Not here in Michigan!)
I grew up watching Mike Douglas (I was little - my mom watched it, and I watched with her). And then there was Phil Donahue. And then Giraldo, Sally Jess Raphael, and a slew of others whose names I can't remember. But there was always something on - someone wanting to talk about something. What killed the talk show?
Was it Morton Downey Jr.? I happened to be in New York before we got syndicated and I saw his show. I couldn't believe it. I just remember thinking "I can't believe they allow this on television!" Was it this over-the-top, brutal interrogation show that killed the regular talk show? Because soon after, Jerry Springer came to being. Well, that's not true. Jerry was there, having intelligent conversations, but then it started to go zany. And then zany was "in." The more shocking, the better, and who really cared if it was a true story or not?
Now, before I get any further, let me just say something about Oprah. I don't like. I don't watch her. She's all show and no substance. I don't like that people treat her as some type of god, and that she acts that way, too. So, I'm excluding her form of "talk show" from my blog. Boo Oprah. (Go ahead and chastise me. I won't mind.)
So, zany. Shocking. possibly true or untrue. Did that kill the talk show? Did that start the whole "reality TV" thing which killed the ability to talk to real people about real topics?
I know, I know - there's still Dr. Phil and Tyra. Let me say, I'm not a Dr. Phil fan, but at least most of the time he keeps to the traditional format, and that I can appreciate. So I watch. Tyra - well, I love America's Next Top Model (yes, I'm feeding into the reality TV machine). Her talk show - eh. All right. I've watched it. But, she's done so there's no sense talking about her.
So, if anyone out there reads this, let me know your thoughts on the whole non-talk show epidemic. Maybe there are local talk shows still going on. (Not here in Michigan!)
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