{"id":903,"date":"2006-01-01T15:14:23","date_gmt":"2006-01-01T20:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2006\/01\/01\/903\/"},"modified":"2006-01-01T15:14:23","modified_gmt":"2006-01-01T20:14:23","slug":"903","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2006\/01\/01\/903\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">New Year&#8217;s Highlights<\/p>\n<p><\/span>Spent New Year&#8217;s Eve with:&nbsp; Lenny and Theresa, got to play<br \/>\na lot of music, missed the annual fireworks for the first time I can<br \/>\nremember but no big loss.&nbsp; Came home for the night.&nbsp; Hardly<br \/>\nany alcohol, relied on Diet Pepsi.<\/p>\n<p>First Text Message on my cell: What Did You Do On NY from Kayla&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>First IM received: HNY from Flamez&#8230; nice to get your first IM of the year from a pretty girl&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>First Email sent: Article on medical students refusing pharmaceutical<br \/>\ngifts and meals, to Bi-polar_pagans, Alt-therapies4bipolar, and<br \/>\nAsheville Radical Mental Health Collective groups, and posted on<br \/>\nAlternative Health Tips &amp; Tricks forum at CornerBarForums.&nbsp;<br \/>\nGotta keep my values <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Images\/cool.gif\">.<\/p>\n<p>First phone calls received: Beth and Andrea.&nbsp; (I called Lenny to<br \/>\ntalk football, got his answering machine which is also a female voice.)<\/p>\n<p>Resolutions:&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>You may notice that these are fairly closely related&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Break the habit of smoking.&nbsp; I smoked for years without<br \/>\nbeing addicted; the last 2 years or so have not been that way.&nbsp; I<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t have to quit, just have to stop wanting it&#8230; smoking once every<br \/>\n2-3 days is not that bad, and I used to do just that.<\/li>\n<li>Work on debt issues.&nbsp; Get more paid work and use it to bring<br \/>\ndebt down.&nbsp; I should be able to kill $4-5,000 of my debt this<br \/>\nyear.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve already ground up several credit cards so I can&#8217;t use<br \/>\nthem; only have two left.<\/li>\n<li>STAY SINGLE.&nbsp; I need to keep this up until at least Summer<br \/>\nof &#8217;08.&nbsp; I&#8217;m too damned generous, and it gets me deeper in debt<br \/>\nevery time.\n  <\/li>\n<li>Study how I can replace as much as possible of my supplements with better eating habits, and DO IT.<\/li>\n<li>Lose weight.&nbsp; Headed right direction again, 262 this morning<br \/>\n(over 280 in October).&nbsp; Need to cut out fatty, salty foods (lose<br \/>\nthe chips n&#8217; cheese, Moss).&nbsp; (Starting Dr. Abravanel&#8217;s A-type<br \/>\ndiet.)&nbsp; Should be able to get to and maintain 240, and work for<br \/>\n225.<\/li>\n<li>Keep up walking program.&nbsp; (Projected for 2007 &#8211; get in regular exercise at the Y or other gym.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&#8217;ve done really well on my resolutions the past two years.&nbsp; Hope this year is no exception.<\/p>\n<p>Asheville Homeless Network is about to take off.&nbsp; Pathways<br \/>\nSanctuary should get a good running start this month.&nbsp; All my<br \/>\nother projects are moving forward at the pace I can maintain<br \/>\nthem.&nbsp; Looks like a really good year.<\/p>\n<p>May your year be as wonderful as my last two.<\/p>\n<p>Om Namah Sivaye!<\/p>\n<p>Hugs,<br \/>\nMoss<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight:bold;\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Year&#8217;s Highlights Spent New Year&#8217;s Eve with:&nbsp; Lenny and Theresa, got to play a lot of music, missed the annual fireworks for the first time I can remember but no big loss.&nbsp; Came home for the night.&nbsp; Hardly any alcohol, relied on Diet Pepsi. 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