tea berry-blue

Happy New Year, everybody!

A couple things I wanted to talk about!

I don't really do New Years' Resolutions but I have two resolutions for LJ that I actually already made a while ago and need to try to keep up. These are both things I learned from reading other people's LJs and think are important things to try to do to be a good LJ friend.

1) furiosity makes a point of replying to every comment she receives. And she has way, way many more people reading her LJ than I do, so this is really impressive. I always feel like she values my opinion even when we disagree about something, and I think it's a good thing to do to be a good community member. So! I have been trying to make the extra effort to reply to everyone. I don't always get everyone but I think I have been doing better about replying to people who comment on my posts.

2) karnythia also impresses me in the way she interacts with her friends list because she always makes a point of asking us how WE are and not just talking about herself, or asking our opinions of things and not just telling us what she is doing. She asks us what we think about it, and I find that I reply to her a lot more than to many other people whose journals I read because I feel like she is inviting me to comment and also like she is sincerely interested in hearing people's opinions. So I have been trying to make a better effort to do the same. I am not as good at this as I am at replying to as many people as I can, so I think this is going to be a harder thing for me to learn to do. It makes me feel a little bad because I keep remembering to do it after I have posted and then thinking, wow, am I that self-centered that I don't care what other people think enough to ask? So that is definitely some room for improvement.

I learn things from a lot of you and not just furiosity and karnythia but these are the things I have learned that I have been thinking about a lot lately, about improving my relationships with friends and other people who take the time to read my journal.

I also wanted to post some cool things other people have linked to:

rainy_day posted this excellent link to DJ Earworm's remix of the top 25 songs of the past year. This is freaking brilliant. If you haven't heard it yet, you should! Blame it on the Pop.

beautyofgrey linked to Christine Kane's blog post from a few years ago about choosing a word for the year. I am trying to decide if I want to do this, because I do a lot better with this kind of meditative approach to things. I am thinking about choosing "brave" as my word because I don't take a lot of risks. I know that is probably surprising to many of you, but I think I am probably more "fearless" than "brave." I do a lot of crazy shit because there are very few consequences that scare me. But in the places where I am scared, I don't push my boundaries as much as I could.

But on to more important things. I think I asked this last year and the responses were really fun!
What do you think my New Year's Resolution should be? Also, if you think you have a good Word of the Year for me, I would love to hear it!

Also, you can post this to your LJ and ask people to pick your resolutions! It is fun!

Mwah to all of you! Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, everybody!

A couple things I wanted to talk about!

I don't really do New Years' Resolutions but I have two resolutions for LJ that I actually already made a while ago and need to try to keep up. These are both things I learned from reading other people's LJs and think are important things to try to do to be a good LJ friend.

1) furiosity makes a point of replying to every comment she receives. And she has way, way many more people reading her LJ than I do, so this is really impressive. I always feel like she values my opinion even when we disagree about something, and I think it's a good thing to do to be a good community member. So! I have been trying to make the extra effort to reply to everyone. I don't always get everyone but I think I have been doing better about replying to people who comment on my posts.

2) karnythia also impresses me in the way she interacts with her friends list because she always makes a point of asking us how WE are and not just talking about herself, or asking our opinions of things and not just telling us what she is doing. She asks us what we think about it, and I find that I reply to her a lot more than to many other people whose journals I read because I feel like she is inviting me to comment and also like she is sincerely interested in hearing people's opinions. So I have been trying to make a better effort to do the same. I am not as good at this as I am at replying to as many people as I can, so I think this is going to be a harder thing for me to learn to do. It makes me feel a little bad because I keep remembering to do it after I have posted and then thinking, wow, am I that self-centered that I don't care what other people think enough to ask? So that is definitely some room for improvement.

I learn things from a lot of you and not just furiosity and karnythia but these are the things I have learned that I have been thinking about a lot lately, about improving my relationships with friends and other people who take the time to read my journal.

I also wanted to post some cool things other people have linked to:

rainy_day posted this excellent link to DJ Earworm's remix of the top 25 songs of the past year. This is freaking brilliant. If you haven't heard it yet, you should! Blame it on the Pop.

beautyofgrey linked to Christine Kane's blog post from a few years ago about choosing a word for the year. I am trying to decide if I want to do this, because I do a lot better with this kind of meditative approach to things. I am thinking about choosing "brave" as my word because I don't take a lot of risks. I know that is probably surprising to many of you, but I think I am probably more "fearless" than "brave." I do a lot of crazy shit because there are very few consequences that scare me. But in the places where I am scared, I don't push my boundaries as much as I could.

But on to more important things. I think I asked this last year and the responses were really fun!
What do you think my New Year's Resolution should be? Also, if you think you have a good Word of the Year for me, I would love to hear it!

Also, you can post this to your LJ and ask people to pick your resolutions! It is fun!

Mwah to all of you! Happy New Year!

happy new year.

new year's eve is terribly romantic, even if it is only jesus' circumcision. i think it is way more romantic than any other holiday. i have had this fantasy since i was maybe 8 or so that i would meet the love of my life & sing new year's eve to them shortly before new year's eve. & of course everything would work out beautifully. it's not going to happen, of course, because it requires meeting the love of my life in december. and it would only work if i'd just met the person and didn't know what they thought of me; it has to be gutsy. so it requires perfect timing on too many levels. and an accompanist. and i have mikey, so i'm not exactly looking. i like mikey.

oh well.

i broke a nail down to the quick. i have very nice long nails, most of the time. but one of them broke all the way down on the doorframe. i dunno what that means.

i also had an extraordinary dream last night. i think it was inspired by the fire in peru, which i only had overheard accounts of at that point. & it was about jules' mother, auberonna silver, as a young woman, defeating a powerful hypnotist's attempt to cause mass hysteria in a building that was being pumped with poisonous gas made from pepper and some lethal ingredient. the pepper was to make everyone thing it wasn't poison that was making them feel all funny. anyway, auberonna, who was very young at the time and called aubie (which was short for something else) gzylbr, was able to reign in the hypnosis and escape while saving several others (including a young man who had attempted to rape her). & that is how she learned about true hypnosis & began to forward it as the science of her century. "the next great battle is inside the human mind," she said.

i am going to go to bed. love and peace to all.

tea