| | My stupid New Year's resolutions, in no particular order:
1) Cook more. I don't know what happened with me cooking over the years. I really like to do it. I guess it boils down to laziness - that and the fact that sometimes the stuff I cook tastes like a foot. But, I am going to cook more. Two of my favorite things to eat, sushi and Indian dishes, are fun to make.
A) Indian food is, by the way, hard to cook. I made this "dessert" a few months ago called kheer, which is rice in sweetened milk (it tasted much niftier than it sounds). It should have been very good, since the recipe says something simple like "add rice to sweetened milk, then stir," but what was actually produced looked like cream of wheat that was balled up and set out to dry in the Arizona sun. My wife Amy laughed and pointed at the stupid man who couldn't add rice to sweetened milk.
Also, my neighbors are Indian, and will bring over some of my favorite dishes a few times in the summer (which more than makes up for the fact that I peek outside and occasionally see them harvesting goodies from my own garden. True story. But at least they wave when the see me see them doing it.) Anyway, when I've asked them to give me a recipe or two, I inevitably get back directions like "add some of that orange powder," or "put in a bit of boba." I gave up on that, obviously. Sooo, back to the resolutions…
2) Watch Law and Order no more than 10 times a week (not including weekends).
3) Write more. Hence the blog and the website additions. Sorry that you're a victim of this one.
4) Read much, much more than I have been. Sounds easy, but with a 6 and 1-1/2 year old at home, by the time they're in bed I'm usually exhausted. I have a queue of about a dozen books that I'm jonesin' to read, and I just haven't had the time.
5) No more internet poker for a while. It's been profitable (true story, even though every single gambler in the two known universes says they're profitable, I'm one of the minority that actually is. Although if I told you the $/hour, you'd be less impressed.) but it's time to stop doing that to free up more time for 1, 3 and 4.
6) Get to work ten minutes earlier than I have been. I teach 5th grade, and I bring my oldest daughter with me, and I'm always ten minutes late, even though I live less than two miles from work. Sigh.
7) Absolutely never go to websites about mimes. I've actually never even done this, but I wanted a resolution that I'd actually be able to accomplish.
8) Stop playing Fantasy Football.
9) Learn the difference between affect and effect in every application. Tougher than it sounds.
10) Not go beyond 9 in any list I create. Drat! Broke one already.
Yes, those are mostly gay resolutions, but, hey, a guy's gotta start somewhere.
What are your resolutions, if any?
Jason
I'll leave you with a picture of my daughter at the zoo.
Daughter on left.
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