To become the best at lying. Not that they are doing a bad job now, but will get super super great at it. You know the type... They could hook em up to a lie detector machine and it would never quiver.

May I ask what TSCC is?

Here are some more abbreviations.

http://exmormon.org/d6/drupal/abbreviations



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I want to run a 26.2 mile marathon in under six hours! (I'm 60 years old)

Get my big toe operated on, and when it's tickety-boo, get back to running. Then lose weight. Again.

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> Get my big toe operated on, and when it's
> tickety-boo, get back to running. Then lose
> weight. Again.


Ya know, Cludgie, I hear so much about people figuring they will loose weight by running.

But I GAIN weight when I train for marathons !

I'm back in training for two spring marathons, and I do one long run every week. I don't eat much before the run - usually just a bowl of oatmeal and half of a banana -- but by the time I run six and a half hours, I'm famished!

So I eat all the rest of the day.

Plus, almost nobody can run 26.2 miles without replenishing their bodies at some point.

I eat something they call "energy gels," or GUs, which is a little foil packet with a high carb, easily digestible, pudding like substance in it. They are 100 calories each, and I eat one every four miles, so that packs on the weight too.


Anyway, you might be able to loose weight running shorter distances on a regular basis, but if you're looking to run a marathon - be prepared to GAIN weight.

But I DO lose weight by running. And walking. I walk a lot, and when the days were longer I was walking 152 miles a month. That plus less food intake made me drop a lot of weight. But then winter came. And then Christmas... Besides, I'm 65 and my metabolism is real, real slow.

For being a 65 year-old American, I don't look that bad. Got my hair. Almost no trace of grey, and only some 25 pounds more than when in high school. No fast food, lots of veg. I ain't worried none, but I want to get back down to where I was.

without doing anything stupid, getting into an accident or other type of injury, hurting anybody's feelings.

And to be consciously aware that now I am free to take the time to do things I LOVE, like reading or walking or watching movies!

Here are mine:

1- I promise not to invite my children's friends over to watch The Godmakers on my big screen TV, nor will I serve refreshments when doing so.

2- I promise not to hire Grant Palmer to provide the entertainment at my daughter's next birthday party, even though it would be awesome.

3- At next year's Trunk or Treat event, I promise not to attend dressed up as Joseph Smith, with my wife costumed as Emma, and my young daughter dressed as "not quite 15 year-old" Fanny Alger, nor will I have my son put on a wig and a dress just so I can add a very masculine Helen Mar Kimball to my entourage.

4- I promise not to make and distribute Post-Mormon Pass Along cards.

5- I promise not to place Mormon Think decals on the sides of my son's Pinewood Derby car.

6- If invited to a Church dinner, I promise I will not assume it's BYOB.

7- If you come to my house for dinner, I promise I won't spike the gravy with Dr. Pepper.

8- I promise I won't visit the Church parking lot during Sacrament Meeting and place Gay Pride bumper stickers on all the cars.

9- I promise not to dine and dash on the missionaries when I take them out to dinner.

10- I promise not to put Ex-Lax in to the chocolate chip cookies I donate to the Young Women's bake sale.

11- When being introduced to a Mormon couple for the first time, I promise not to ask the husband what number wife she is.

12- I promise I will not respond to questions from Mormons by quoting anything from the temple ceremony.

13- I promise not to offer sarcastic condolences when a Mormon woman gives birth to a girl.

14- When I bump into Mormons buying beer at the convenience store, I promise that I'll pretend not to notice, instead of trying to high-five them while saying loudly, "Dude, where's the party?"

15- I promise not to bow and address the Bishop as "Your Eminence" when I bump into him at the grocery store.

16- I promise not to attach a copy of Letter to a CES Director to the ward bulletin board when nobody is looking.

17- I promise I won't worship any graven images of Donny Osmond.

18- I promise I won't send proxy resignation letters to Church headquarters on behalf of my Mormon acquaintances.

19- I promise that I won't bribe a Priest to spike the sacrament water with Viagra.

20- I promise not to marry any of my Mormon friend's daughters, unless I am single and they are over eighteen years of age.

21- I promise that I won't hide a whoopee cushion under the Relief Society President's chair.

22- I promise that I won't put beer, porn mags or a live, wild squirrel into the missionaries' apartment. The missionaries in my area keep their door unlocked and I have actually considered doing this, but I'm too nice, or too wimpy, to actually do it. Maybe if Mike Norton ever comes to visit...

23- I promise not to surreptitiously dump bubble bath soap into the baptism font prior to a baptismal service.

For TSCC -- to do something, *anything,* that would be a move in a kinder, more humane direction.

For myself -- to read more novels and books. And to try more diverse activities and hobbies. I sit on my butt in front of a computer too much. :)

#11

I long ago gave up on New Years resolutions. Each year I set a goal to do something new or go somewhere I have never been.

Some have been great,others not so great.

Last years was to learn to blow glasss. It was great. One year it was to learn woodworking. I hated breathing sawdust but made a pretty mirror.

So I find goals more positive than resolutions.

Just my two cents.

But I'll share my New Year's Goal which is to pull an 8-10" cylinder so I can finally make a stein for a childhood friend. Oh! And to keep up my GPA.