Exercise for the new year

Saskia — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:07:20 +0000

My friend Regina Gelfo sent this to me in the first few days of 2010 as an exercise to help me establish and put clarity into the year that had passed. She found it somewhere on the internet, not sure where. It’s been helpful to me, and perhaps it might be to you, as well.

2010: COMPLETING AND REMEMBERING

Review the list of all completed projects
What was your biggest triumph in 2010?
What was the smartest decision you made in 2010?
What one word best sums up and describes your 2010 experience?
What was the greatest lesson you learned in 2010?
What was the most loving service you performed in 2010?
What is your biggest piece of unfinished business in 2010?
What are you most happy about completing in 2010?
Who were the three people that had the greatest impact on your life in 2010?
What was the biggest risk you took in 2010?
What was the biggest surprise in 2010?
What important relationship improved the most in 2010?
What compliment would you liked to have received in 2010?
What compliment would you liked to have given in 2010?
What else do you need to do or say to be complete with 2010?

2011: CREATING THE NEW YEAR

What would you like to be your biggest triumph in 2011?
What advice would you like to give yourself in 2011?
What is the major effort you are planning to improve your financial results in 2011?
What would you be most happy about completing in 2011?
What major indulgence are you willing to experience in 2011?
What would you most like to change about yourself in 2011?
What are you looking forward to learning in 2011?
What do you think your biggest risk will be in 2011?
What about your work, are you most committed to changing and improving in 2011?
What is one as yet undeveloped talent you are willing to explore in 2011?
What brings you the most joy and how are you going to do or have more of that in 2011?
Who or what, other than yourself, are you most committed to loving and serving in 2011?
What one word would you like to have as your theme in 2011?

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The Jim Carroll Band

Saskia — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:36:59 +0000

Posted in just killing time Tagged: Jim Carroll, RIP

My future husband is a euro-trash looking drug baron’s son

Saskia — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:08:02 +0000

Hilarious description of what Mexican mafia lords are MEANT to look like (peasants with money), as opposed to what some of them DO look like (eastern european nouveau rich cheese meets sensitive intellectual meets HOT, as above):

“They’re harder to identify because they don’t look like typical drug traffickers,” he said. “You can’t detect them by saying ‘Oh look, he has a big truck with wide tires and automatic weapons, gold chains, snakeskin boots and a big belt buckle and dark glasses.’”

From ‘Savvy young heirs give Mexico drug cartels new face’, as posted in Vancouver Sun

Posted in just killing time, self-referential, subverting dominant paradigms Tagged: busted, drug cartel, euro-trash, hipster, mexican mafia, mexico, nouveau-riche, sexy

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Exercise for the new year

The Jim Carroll Band

My future husband is a euro-trash looking drug baron’s son