Today

[Carla Hurst-Chandler]

De-Cluttering (cyber) and my den before January 1st A place for everything and everything it its place!

[MelMariah]

I'm also cleaning for the new year
Fresh start right?
Then later tonight celebrating with a few drinks and friends

[Fran]

Got to go do some shopping today ... for "normal" food like, milk, bread etc, after the Christmas excess it's a bit like Old Mother Hubbard's cupboard here, bare of basics.
Tonight I will ring in the New Year with family & friends & raise a few glasses to absent loved ones.

[StephenKingman]

Today is the last day I can be the slothful creature I have morphed into the past 2 weeks- chocolate for breakfast, TV until 3am and rarely venturing out, I think I need my routine back before brain power is affected.

[Fran]

Today is the last day I can be the slothful creature I have morphed into the past 2 weeks- chocolate for breakfast, TV until 3am and rarely venturing out, I think I need my routine back before brain power is affected.

Isn't it funny how quickly the novelty of holidays wears off? ... ah well, one more day & then back on the old work treadmill again

[StephenKingman]

Today is the last day I can be the slothful creature I have morphed into the past 2 weeks- chocolate for breakfast, TV until 3am and rarely venturing out, I think I need my routine back before brain power is affected.

Isn't it funny how quickly the novelty of holidays wears off? ... ah well, one more day & then back on the old work treadmill again

Yeah, Im actually looking forward to it a tiny bit, theres only so much boxsets you can watch or chocolate you can munch before your brain turns to mush! One last celebration tonight and its all over (for another year).

[Fran]

Yeah, Im actually looking forward to it a tiny bit, theres only so much boxsets you can watch or chocolate you can munch before your brain turns to mush! One last celebration tonight and its all over (for another year).

Well we have The Gathering to look forward to & sure Paddy's Day is only round the corner

[primrose777]

Just home from watching the early New Year fireworks down at the Jetty and now home waiting for midnight and the Sydney fireworks on TV. Happy New Year everyone.

[Fran]

Just home from watching the early New Year fireworks down at the Jetty and now home waiting for midnight and the Sydney fireworks on TV. Happy New Year everyone.

And a very happy 2013 to you & yours, Primrose ... enjoy the celebrations. They always show Sydney Harbour on the evening News here.

[clintessential]

Today I finished the last of the shutters I built to frame the windows in my house. The generic term for them is
"Window Treatment." The effect or look is Victorian(IMO). The design is Lapstrake, which was popular in New England
about 100 years ago. It was used in the construction of boats(longitudinal planks lapped each other) as well as the
perimeter walls of houses. My design overlaps the windows by 24" , 12" on either side. So the effect is to reduce the
horizontal dimension ofthe windows by 24". This makes them appear to be taller , which is what I wanted. All I
have to do now is paint them and install them. I'm real happy with them.

[Carla Hurst-Chandler]

Sounds lovely.

[Bighuey]

I started transfering cassette tapes to CD's. Ive been doing it off and on for the last couple years, I started with about 500, including vinyl records. Ive got about 50 left to go. Now they say CD's are going the way of the dinosaur. I thought when 8-track tapes came out that was the end of it. What next?

[Fran]

First work day of 2013 over and done with .... it wasn't too bad

[MelMariah]

Today I cut my hair that was down to my belly button off to my shoulders
Change for the new year to come!

[clintessential]

Today I was confronted with the first challenge to one of my New Years resolutions. The resolution in question
is a promise I made to my wife that I wouldn't put dung beetles in places that would embarass her if she discovered
them while she was recounting the things that your husband does that you think should be added to the list of
crimes to which the death penalty may be applied. As I drove by the Dung Beetle Store on my way to my Aerobics
Class Available To Anyone Obsessed With The Negativity Attached to Dung Beetle Ownership, I turned up the volume
on a CD I purchased two days ago that my Aerobics instructor has recommended as a more socially acceptable alternative. As I sang along to Barbra's rendition of Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered Am I, I realized I had
sent The Dungs packing. My problem now was how I was going to hide my new found love of Barbra from my bowling
team which had voted overwhelming to call ourselves "People Who Hate People Are The Luckiest People in The World"
Ach du liebe.