Happy New Year!

Have a wonderful first day of the new year. xoxo

Some poems for New Year's resolutions, if you do that sort of thing.

What we make every year for New Year's Day (& throughout the winter).

Why some foods are considered lucky for New Year's. (Never question this!)

(photograph by Sharon Montrose, a favorite. For purchase here & also here as notepad.)

Happy New Year

Here's to a fresh start, a happy & healthy new year for all. Cheers, peeps! (photograph by Sharon Montrose. Check out her wonderful new book)

Happy New Year

Happy New Year! Sharon Montrose's darling Baby Bunny No. 1 from The Animal Print Shop. GG's editor is partial to writing important lists on a baby deer pad from Sharon's Etsy shop. Our pad & pen in hand, thinking about resolutions. Have a great weekend. (Go Pittsburgh Penguins!)

ciao-meow/GG Holiday Central

Happy New Year from GG

Cheers to a New Year & a better decade than the last. Some people think we're being negative; we don't think so. Just telling the truth, as it has been here, where we live.

ciao-cheeky-meow/GG & her editor

[image via Vintage Holiday Crafts]

Happy New Year!

Just one more New Year's cute cat vintage card. From Vintage Holiday & Crafts Clip Art. Visit there & have some fun. We do need to find some more redheaded/white & orange cats, though. GG is miffed at this vital gap in cat images.

xoxo, bisou, baci!
GG New Year's Central

Randy Pausch's Last Lecture

Say good-bye (good riddance!) to 2008 & get ready for a challenging new year with a few lessons from smart people. Randy Pausch's legacy continues to grow, as it should. We can't add to it, but we can remind people. There are links to the video of Randy's Last Lecture in 2007, his site at Carnegie-Mellon University, & translations. Much love to his family & friends, in Pittsburgh (!) & elsewhere.

Update: Randy dedicated a great deal of his life to public domain information (see Alice Project). We are downhearted & quite angry to report that much of the available visual material has been claimed as property upon which people (other than Randy's family) are making money! We are especially steamed by bad blogger behavior (BBB). When Randy was alive, he stopped this sort of thing. Someone even has the nerve to put all sorts of warnings on a Wikipedia page. Ugh. So the photo of Pittsburgh is courtesy of Duquesne U. in the 'Burgh. Thank you! (And the rest of you? For shame. Remember: instant karma.)

Happy New Year!
GG & her editor

photograph of Pittsburgh/Duquesne University