Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Auld Lang Syne

"It turns out that "Auld Lang Syne" is an extremely old Scottish song that was first written down in the 1700s. Robert Burns is the person whose transcription got the most attention, so the song is associated with him.

According to this page, a good translation of the words "auld lang syne" is "times gone by." So (incorporating a couple of other translations) when we sing this song, we are saying, "We'll drink a cup of kindness yet for times gone by."

This above definition is from: How stuff works:
http://people.howstuffworks.com/question2791.htm.

I always wondered why that was, THE, song for tonight’s festivities. I know that we all know the words since they are simple and we repeat them over and over; and now that we got that out of the way...

Today I did some good/ bad things.
You know how everything this year has been just plain awful on the news and in your neighborhood if not in your own home-life?
Well, I decided to create a clean slate, and why not? As an adult cleaning up you life’s desires is as comforting as getting other things organized in your life, even a closet.
Something’s that I had been involved with had made my life not as happy as it used to, and so I quit. It was one of my volunteer ventures that in my opinion weren't organized all that well; anytime I needed a question answered there was never a quick answer or even any response. When you delegate jobs, even to volunteers the people that you recruited should have some type of training to do what you expect of them to do it correctly, otherwise you get less than quality work or none at all. That’s what was so frustrating, assignments were given in general without any guidelines or resources, and I have always put my heart and soul into anything I have been asked to do whether salaried or as a volunteer. After repeated requests and specific questions asked I got no where; not good for a person involved with a non-profit that staff is delegating to us volunteers and being paid for their job. Of course, I gave it quite a bit of thought before hand and I weighed the pluses and minuses of the decision, but once done it was freeing!

Now I know it gives me more free time to decide on what exactly does make me happy besides writing this Blog.
I also cleared out my address book online to make it more reliable when I go to use it.
Too many old addresses and ones belonging to; who?
When I didn’t recognize the name it went!
I guess in the ten years we have been with this email carrier we collected too many.
I removed the names of people that I felt were not sincere friends ones that when told of my most horrible times in my life had said nothing and changed the topic back to more mundane things like bills. Of course all bills are important but not more than deaths of family members and I really needed support and feedback from a so-called friend, who I had supported over the years, and so that name is gone too from my email addresses.
Sad but not who I thought they were; someone with a heart and a true friend through thick and thin, literarily.
To me it is very interesting how as we get older we make many decisions to narrow our friends to who are the true and always there ones.
It makes me sad to say that most of mine have died, and there are not that many left.

I know to some I sound bitter, well, to be honest I am.
When you help people when they ask and then they give you the shaft when you need them, yea; I'm bitter you betcha.
But the best thing about getting old is…when your memory goes…and then you forget…so easily! It helps with TV or movie reruns it makes it all new again too!

Happy New Year's to all, and to all let's all hope 2009 will be a very happy, healthy and prosperous year! Anyway, I wish that for all of you.

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