Monthly Archives: December 2008

2008 Blog Review

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I give you the year in review by listing the first sentence from the first post each month this year:

January:
My resolution for 2008 is that I’m not going to make any.

February:
Today’s Friday’s Feast brought to you by Netflix.

March:
I’m a little bit worried about the recent political crisis between Colombia and Venezuela.

April:
I know why I like Tai Chi.

May:
Today’s Friday’s Feast brought to you by Sprint.

June:
Most of the reviews I’ve seen about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull are good.

July:
To Spyder and the other Canadians.

August:
There is a directory at my workplace.

September:
I remember when the only options I had were IE and Netscape

October:
Dallas was the last city I saw before coming back to Kansas City.

November:
It sure has been a long time.

December:
I tend to feel overwhelmed when there is too much going on in my life.

We have plans after all

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Christmas was very quiet at the Guzmán-Domínguez household. With John just out of surgery and my getting a nasty cold with laryngitis, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day were like any other day. No visits, no friends, no special dinner (OK, John made his super awesome stuffed potatoes). And it kind of makes me depressed to be so alone during the holidays. I was expecting New Year’s to be the same, and it turned out to be totally different… too many options.

First there is our Little Brother’s family who really likes us, so I mentioned we could do something together and they are very excited about it. And then I received a call from one of our Peruvian friends to join them and some other people on New Year’s Eve. So I had to change plans with the Little Brother for New Year’s Day, and hopefully it will work for them.

The holidays are always hard when you are away from family and close friends. But I have to be thankful because we have met awesome people here in KC. And today I wished I didn’t have any plans so we could spend New Year’s with a couple of friends from out of town who can’t go home. But I can’t be to different places at once… We all try… But I know how much it sucks to look around and realize that we need to build stronger relationships and we are not doing it.

That will be a post for another day. On how much work I need to do on the making and keeping friends department.

The Power of Less Challenge

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I’m a big fan of Zen Habits. I think that is the only blog I read religiously and throughout. Leo Babauta does a great job writing about what’s important in life and how to tackle it from every perspective (professional and personal). So it was a wonderful thing to find today, that he’s having a book titled The Power of Less coming out on December 30th, and that there is a new year’s challenge for people who want to commit to it.

The Power of Less Challenge is a community created so people can commit to a new habit every 30 days, and do it publicly. From playing the guitar to exercising (the most popular so far), people are joining the forums to make changes in their life. What I like the most about this premise is that we have to commit to just ONE habit forming so we won’t overwhelm ourselves.

The idea is just to follow these 9 Simple Rules to Form a Habit and keep in touch with the community to track progress. Just what a needed, a little step for better things and a moon landing.

Where did my money go?

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Read in Reader’s Digest today:

Seven years after 9/11, a deadly anthrax attack, and billions of dollars spent on homeland security, experts say we may be more vulnerable than ever to bioterrorism.

Makes you think, especially after immigration is now part of the Homeland Security Department and their rates for applications have tripled during the last year making that income much higher than before. One wonders where all that money goes… all that money paid by millions of people looking for a legal status in the U.S., and then some more. One wonders in this crappy economy…

Interesting read if you like to think about what’s going on in a country where people do nothing but pay and get too little in return.

Just the screen. No fork, TYVM.

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For Christmas, John and I got an AMC gift card from one of his co-workers; so after a busy shopping afternoon we decided to try the new Fork & Screen at AMC 30 in Olathe. Mind you, it is $15 after 4 p.m. and that was the first disappointment after being used to $8 at Cinemark (even if it smells like rancid popcorn most of the time) or $4 if you go before 6 p.m.

The theatre is beautiful, the seats are super-comfy, the people are nice at the entrance. But that’s about it. If you plan to spend $40 in food, you better go to a nice restaurant before the movie instead of wasting your money there. Our order took way too long to arrive, it was cold, it was bland and just not worth the price. If you see the words “Parmesan Fries” you expect them to be something more rather than just regular fries sprinkled with cold Kraft Parmesan cheese, right? Hmmm…

The whole eat while you watch a movie experience? Not for me. The waiters are distracting and some people think they are in a restaurant and talk too loud. It was one of those things I did once and will think about twice to do it again. If I want food during a movie, I’ll rent it the movie and eat at home. Especially for that price. $40 for a burger and some chicken tenders? Insane.

That being said, the movie we watched saved the evening. Slumdog Millionaire is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. But I’ll leave the review to my husband.