Blogging on the moon: still OK
Happy New Year! Friday, January 31st marks the Lunar New Year, and you know what that means. If you’ve already blown your regular New Year’s resolutions, this is your chance for a fresh new start. Except, obviously, Lunar New Year resolutions have to do with the moon.
Here are mine:
1) I hereby resolve not to eat green cheese. Except for Gorgonzola and blue cheese, which, although it’s called blue, often has a green cast to it. I’m definitely swearing off green American cheese, but will still enjoy the American blues. Strictly from a musical standpoint.
2) I hereby resolve not to moon anyone, especially while traveling in a car. By the time I got my Spanx pulled down, the light would probably have turned green anyway, much like the cheese.
3) I hereby resolve to listen to The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd even more often than I currently do, and that’s a lot.
4) I hereby resolve to sing Shine On Harvest Moon in that “yo-di-oh-do”, Rudy Vallee kind of way, whenever I’m on a hay-rack ride during the month of October.
5) I hereby resolve to learn the moonwalk. Naaaaah. That’s too hard. I’ll just watch the maestro, Michael Jackson getting down with his fine, smooth self to Billie Jean.
6) I hereby resolve to finally learn that tricky part of Moonlight Sonata that I could never get right, even after 6 years of lessons with Mrs. Meilach. As soon as I get a piano.
7) I hereby resolve to keep my eyes peeled for any jumping cows, violin-playing cats or cutlery doing the 50-yard dash and, if seen, I will report them to the proper authorities.
What are your Lunar New Year Resolutions?
Peg-o-Leg's Ramblings 
Only you could make resolutions sound like so much fun. Happy birthday to everyone born in the year of the horse!
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Whinny, whinny. That’s horse for “right back atcha.”
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Hey! If I started a resolution on January 1st, and give up on it at midnight, can I still claim it as a win, since it’s the next New Years, right? Am I pushing it?
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Oh YEAH you’re pushing it. But go with it anyway.
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I would love to learn to do a moon walk like our incomparable Michael Jackson…even just a few inches or a foot. Call me an ace when I can do it across the kitchen tile floor. Perhaps GS can teach me…if not this MJ move, one of his.
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I WILL call you an ace if you can do 1 foot of the moonwalk. I can’t even remember how to do the hustle, and that takes no athletic ability at all.
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I will resolve to call the authorities if I see that Man in the Moon peaking into my windows. Again. Either that, or I resolve to close my blinds more often. That guy is SUCH a perv!
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I don’t know…he’s the only guy who has shown much interest in peeking at me in the buff, so I don’t want to discourage that.
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I resolve to be more looney (luny) because that’s the only way I can make it through the year!
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Great resolution! And so keep-able.
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No green cheese. Got it. What about green eggs and ham?
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You may eat them in a boat. You may eat them with a goat.
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I am over the moon with your lunar resolutions! But it’s not unusual for me to be delighted by your posts, it’s certainly not a once in a blue moon occurence, in fact I’m going to have to start moonlighting if I want my blog posts to be as inspired as yours…these are bad aren’t they…ok, let’s try something else…I resolve to distill some moonshine, to drink while I eat moon pie, and….let’s see…no, I think I’m done.
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You nailed it! Moonpie washed down with moonshine sounds like nectar of the gods.
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I’ve been waiting for the perfect excuse to re-watch the entire run of Moonlighting! Bring on the 1980s Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepard.
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Oh man! Where can I get my hands on that show? One of my favorites. I don’t suppose it’s on Netflix because really NOTHING is on Netflix.
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Loved that show! Mattie’s shoulder-pads were bigger than a linebacker’s.
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I, for one, intend to go out on a date with Moon Unit Zappa.
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Try saying Dweezil 10 times fast.
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That’s too easy. You try “Dweezil Weasel” 10 times fast.
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IF YOU BELIEEEEEVE! THEY PUT A MAN ON THE MOON! MAN ON THE MOON!
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After reading your first line I’ve got Cher running through my brain. “If you beLIEVE in life after love, after love, after love, after love….” Thanks for that.
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Sorry, Cher was not an intended consequence of my action.
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Yeah, well, I’ve got “Do the Hustle” on an apparently unending loop in my head. Thanks for THAT, Pegalicious. Thanks for that. It is 5:30 a.m. and now I;ve got to Google it because I can’t remember how to do the hustle. This is how a 36 papers will NOT get graded today.
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Bup bup bup, ba-dup ba-dup, dup dup! bup bup bup, ba-dup, ba-dup, dup DUP! (just try not to whisper that aloud to see if it fits….I dare you!)
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Damn you, woman…I had already moved on to Mack the Knife…
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I hereby resolve to eat a Moon Pie. A nice, chocolaty one. Oh, the horrors I subject myself, too.
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Oops, that should be ‘subject myself to.’
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Was that your spellchecker trying to read your mind again, Carrie?
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Probably. It likes to do that.
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Mine does that too. It fights me for proper spelling especially when I WANT to misspell something for comedic effect. Why can’t the auto correct kick in to save me when I sound like a doofus? Technology lets me down so bad sometimes.
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I am on my way to a Chinese restaurant to celebrate with a large group of people. I resolve to eat everything I take off the buffet…the first trip.
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Hey, that’s a great resolution! I’m resolved to go for Chinese at lunch today.
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I’m going to read all the comments in my spam folder from when I wrote a post about Chinese food.
And in an hour, when I’m done, I’ll read them again.
Because…Chinese food.
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I was gonna go the Chinese New Year route but I was too afraid of being called out as an insensitive jerk if I went with a whole list of cliches pertaining to persons of Chinese descent. I figure the moon doesn’t have its own Easily Offended Special Interest Group With An Agenda And A Platform….yet.
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OK, now my NEW new year’s resolution is to fly you out here to Maine so we can play Moonlight Sonata together (one of my fave piano pieces to play!)
Also, I resolve to keep eating cheese in all its forms. I just had scrambled eggs with cheddar for lunch. Boom.
I resolve to never type the word “boom” again in a comment.
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“fly me to the moon….and let me play among the stars..” now I’ve got Frank Sinatra stuck in my brain, and I like him there JUST fine.
Boom.
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Do the Hustle….duh, duh, duh, duh, duh da duh duh
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Where’s my polyester, fake-Diane VonFurstenburg wrap dress and can of AquaNet to achieve the perfect Farrah-do?
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You better get to work. That’s a pretty tough list, piano included.
I resolve to eat blue cheese with a fork while looking out at the moon. Somehow, in that moment, all will be right in The Year of the Horse. **whinnie**
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Would you like some oats to go with that blue cheese? (paws ground in agreement)
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I felt inspired and did a post today that almost looks like the moon…
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It DOES look the moon -groovy, baby.
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I vow that this will be the year I finally carry a moonbeam home in a jar and be better off than I are….er….am.
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…or would you rather be a mule. (it may not surprise you to learn I had to look that up – dang it all, Al, you’re making more work for me!)
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Thanks for the invite and though I do have long funny ears, I thing I’ll stick to swinging on stars.
P.S. I have stock in Google, sorry.
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I hereby resolve not to look at The New York Time’s cover of Hillary Clinton as a PLANET!! 🙂
!http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2014/01/22/magazine/22-hillary-cover/22-hillary-cover-blog480.jpg
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What is with that???? I thought they LIKED her over there.
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I resolve to ride a moon blind horse to the Himalayas, and moonlight as a Sherpa until I find a moon bear to wrestle by starlight.
Or I might just look up & say, “Oh look, it’s a full moon,” the next time I see one. One of those two.
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That first one aught to keep you pretty busy. The second? Not so much.
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Love it!!!
(crooning) Moon river, wider than a mile – – I’m crossing you in style some day Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker …
Also – – has anyone ever seen a movie called “Shoot the Moon” ?? I am dating myself now but it was a really good film with Dianne Keaton in ’82.
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Hey, I like that song, too! can’t remember that Diane Keaton movie, though.
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I resolve not to make that idle threat to Alice Kramden again. She’s heard it enough, and it’s clearly never gonna happen.
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Good luck with that one, Ralph.
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I resolve not to curse at people in anything other than English on any Dallas freeways for one month.
I believe I can keep that one. I love your ambition.
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Now THAT’s the kind of resolution that a girl has a shot at keeping – good idea.
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The not mooning anyone resolution seems well-advised for all of us. I resolve to smile each time I see the moon–I think I should have been born on the moon, but, then, I couldn’t look at her magnificence and constant flow from full to nothing to full, which is kind of how I feel a lot of the time… 😉
Sorry I can’t catch up on all of your posts–I’m just trying to make an effort to let you know I’m still alive, kicking, and thinking of you!
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No problem, Lorna. I hope you are feeling better, with or without the moon.
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Your resolutions are absolutely hilarious! By comparison, my own are mundane. I must think of making better Lunar resolutions before the Lunar date for making them is up. Already failed on the regular New Year’s resolves…. maybe there is an Ides of March period for reinvention?
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Definitely. Get working on your Ideas of March.
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Coincedentally the Lunar New Year was on the same day as my birthday. Which, as everyone knows is a bad day for resolutions. So I’ll stick to my usual one (not to make any). But I have to say yours are brilliant! Wish I would have thought of that, or maybe I did and it had to just be those braincells I wasted during a fairly liquid lunch… 😉
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Happy (belated) birthday! The only thing you’re supposed to give up on your birthday is aggravation. Hope you did that and had a great one.
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And by calling it Lunar New Year, you don’t leave the Vietnamese community out. There’s been lion dancers all over for the past week…they used to call it Asian History Month here – but who knows if that’s the right term these days – terms change so much.
What was that moon song in “It’s a Beautiful Life”? It was all “lasso the moon”, “by the light of the silvery moon” and stuff for poor ole George.
Well, no point mooning over vague memories.
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That’s right – it was the new year for lots of Asian cultures, not just Chinese.
I love that movie! I think they were singing “and dance by the light of the moon.”
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That song’s driving me crazy…must go find video clip…oh well, something to do while it rains (we shall ignore the house clutter..)
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My husband has vowed to listen to The Wall a gazillion times. I’ve vowed to buy ear plugs.
I love Floyd… just not all the time 🙂
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I try to limit my listening to half a gazillion times for just that reason.
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I’m giving up moonshine. Not hard, since I’ve never tried the stuff, but it’s the thought that counts.
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You’re smart to make a resolution you know you can keep.
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That’s the plan. 🙂
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