Well readers, I apologize for the long pause in blogging,
did ya miss me? I don’t know how things
were for you, but the holidays were super cra-cra busy for me. (My teenage Grandsons taught me CRA-CRA and I
decided it sounds cuter than crazy). I must say the busy part, running out of time,
really threw me for a loop! After all I
am retired so I should have had plenty of time to bake, shop, and decorate.
I was so wrong! It
seems these retirees are very busy folks.
I was always doing something or going to an event or party, phew, it was
exhausting. I mean, I thought at
retirement time Happy Hour was supposed to be naptime! Not… it’s really happy hour with a live band
and dancing. What I have learned about the generation preceding mine, as in hippie’s
parents, is they are hard to keep up with!
They are teaching me it is not about how old you are, but how you are
old! Get it?? Well let me tell you I decided they can’t be
that old, I demand a recount! <Grin>
OK, so onward and upwards as I try and make amends heading
into 2015, and we’re off:
The ball has dropped, and the confetti has been cleared. The
Ice Bucket Challenge and "All About That Bass" are officially so last
year. It's 2015 — the beginning of a whole new year. Here are the pressing questions that I was left with from
2014;
- Who will emerge for the Republicans?
- Will they ever find flight 370?
- Will Bowe Bergdahl be court martialed?
- Will Ray Rice play in the NFL?
- Will Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get the death penalty?
- What will our wonderful newscaster create for the 2015 weather trend? (How do you top the polar vortex in 2014?)
- Will gay marriage come to all 50 states?
Wow 2015, can you believe it? I was reminiscing about the doomsday prophesies
when we were headed into the year 2000. Do you remember the media hype leading
up to January 1, 2000? How they built it up to an apocalyptic hysteria, telling
Americans how they should prepare, that it would impact our transportation,
Federal Government security, and there would be Global Computer failures etc. I don’t know about you, but I was rather
disappointed when I woke up on January 1st and nothing at all happened. I had to go to work as usual, and unfortunately,
all the computers worked. <Grin>
The psychic
predictions are always fun, and for some reason our infamous news finds them
important to pass on to us, so I thought it would be fun to write some down for
posterity and check back in 2016. These are a few that I found the most fun:
- Prince Harry will get engaged
- Major volcanic eruptions in Japan and Hawaii
- National Health and police strikes and riots in London
- Joan Collins dies
- Royal Family death
- Zara Phillips , Princess Anne’s daughter falls pregnant
- Strange fluctuations in the Earth’s Magnetic Field detected
- A nuclear submarine will get into serious problems; it could be Russian although there is also Chinese involvement, perhaps an incident over the disputed Japanese Islands in the China Sea?
- I feel that 2015 will be a year with a lot of Maritime problems, there could be a very serious disaster, akin to the sinking of the Titanic
- 2015 will see closer ties between Russia and China. There will be an economic and military pact. In the years to come this will become a powerful alliance that will challenge America
- Economically , India will rise faster than China in the coming years
- Josefina Vazquez Mota will become the first female president of Mexico
- Both Facebook and the BBC will develop search engine algorithms for the internet (and not just for their own websites) in an attempt to rival Google. Amazon will also venture into web search.
Well, there you have it, Craig’s World Psychic Predictions for 2015;
we’ll be sure and check back on him in Jan 2016! Here is a funny joke about Psychics,
“I knew the Psychic was a fake the minute she accepted my check.”
Did you make any 2015 New Year’s resolutions? My opinion on resolutions is; we shouldn’t
waste time with resolutions, we should instead focus on something far better: resolve. While
the words are similar, the difference is significant. A resolution is something
you make; resolve is something you have. Call it
semantics, but I think the distinction is important.
I think many will make resolutions and then immediately break them. Why? Because they’re not really resolving to do anything different. They’re just wishing. That’s just me talking, but I think the bottom line is: Without a stronger resolve, you have no hope of accomplishing your resolutions. Isn’t that deep of me? <Grin>
So my resolve in 2015 is to age with grace! (My disclaimer, sort of.) I have determined
that I do not like my gray hair and so I am adding in some highlights. Why,
you ask? Well, because I was in a meeting, and one of the men was pointing out
one of the ladies to me, and he said the one with the silver hair, as I turned
and the entire room was a sea of women with different shades of silver/gray
hair! I have never been a conformist so why start now. And as for the second part of aging gracefully, I am
going to stop fretting about the ever increasing wrinkles; I say they're just
antique smiles.
Stay with me, as we traverse through this retirement journey, or as I
refer to it “my longest coffee break." I'm just sayin’…
