Fiscal Cliff and End of the World Parties
I'm ambivalent about the fiscal cliff. If healthcare reform remains, then taxes were going to have to go up somehow. That much is unavoidable. I will be surprised if some sort of compromise isn't reached, because we've seen this sort of thing before, and there's a lot of pressure on both sides to come to an agreement.
I think we should be watchful. Whatever happens, we need to know about it and try to adjust accordingly. But I think it's far too early to panic.
Not too worried about the Mayan Calendar running out on December 21st either, but I do think it's a good excuse to throw an "End of the World" party.
My current plan involves at least one rendition of REM's "It's the End of the World as We Know It", leaning towards "It's a Wonderful Life" as the movie choice (2012 was just so bad), maybe do a reading from "Apocolypse Wow!" just to remind us all we thought the world was ending back in 2000.
Anyone else have some great "End of the World Party" plans/ideas they'd like to share?
Mm, Christmas is coming too. I'm going to go back and make sure my Christmas related posts are tagged under holidays. I've been dry this year on gift ideas. Did my mom's Chrstimas shopping for her, got a lot of DVDs and gift cards. For my own shopping, actually considering giving the extended family socks...fun Christmas themed socks...but socks, not my banner year for gift ideas. I did luck out at Best Buy and scored some Death Note Revisited DVDs for $3.99, so my siblings at least dodged the sock bullet.
As for NaNoWriMo, I finished my rewrite and have a team of beta testers reading over the novel now. I also have a prequel serial called "The Girl With No Name" up on fiction press which is free to read and updates with more regularity than this blog.
This may be my last post for the year...maybe (you guys have learned I'm not good at staying away when I think I will). I need to reorganize a lot of things in my business and personal life and just enjoy the Christmas Season.
So Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, lovely Kwanzaa or whatever else you're celebrating this year.
Be generous but wise, and accept generosity with grace.
I think we should be watchful. Whatever happens, we need to know about it and try to adjust accordingly. But I think it's far too early to panic.
Not too worried about the Mayan Calendar running out on December 21st either, but I do think it's a good excuse to throw an "End of the World" party.
My current plan involves at least one rendition of REM's "It's the End of the World as We Know It", leaning towards "It's a Wonderful Life" as the movie choice (2012 was just so bad), maybe do a reading from "Apocolypse Wow!" just to remind us all we thought the world was ending back in 2000.
Anyone else have some great "End of the World Party" plans/ideas they'd like to share?
Mm, Christmas is coming too. I'm going to go back and make sure my Christmas related posts are tagged under holidays. I've been dry this year on gift ideas. Did my mom's Chrstimas shopping for her, got a lot of DVDs and gift cards. For my own shopping, actually considering giving the extended family socks...fun Christmas themed socks...but socks, not my banner year for gift ideas. I did luck out at Best Buy and scored some Death Note Revisited DVDs for $3.99, so my siblings at least dodged the sock bullet.
As for NaNoWriMo, I finished my rewrite and have a team of beta testers reading over the novel now. I also have a prequel serial called "The Girl With No Name" up on fiction press which is free to read and updates with more regularity than this blog.
This may be my last post for the year...maybe (you guys have learned I'm not good at staying away when I think I will). I need to reorganize a lot of things in my business and personal life and just enjoy the Christmas Season.
So Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, lovely Kwanzaa or whatever else you're celebrating this year.
Be generous but wise, and accept generosity with grace.