US World and News Report Outlines "50 Ways To Improve Your Life in 2009"

[RandomAnthony]

For some reason US World and News Report shows up on my doorstep every week. I swear, I have no idea why. I didn't subscribe. I think my mother in law had extra frequent flier miles or something and got me a subscription. Anyway, this week's issue had an article called "50 Ways To Improve Your Life in 2009". Here's the link:

http://www.usnews.com/features/news/5...

What do you think? You can hit the smaller links on the main page to get more information the specifics. This one, about publishing a book on your own, is interesting:

http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/5...

This one says you should throw out all your plastic food containers and store food in glass. I have to admit this one threw me off. I wouldn't even know where to buy the plastic equivalent of tupperware, and I imagine it's expensive:

http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/5...

Some of the other ones make sense. I like the "teach your kids how to cook" and "take an afternoon nap" ones. What do you think?

[shellyindallas]

Here are some questionable suggestions:

-bike to work: sounds good, but I live 25 miles from where I work, so that's not happening.

-get paid for good health: how does one make this happen?

-get a new toothbrush: shouldn't you be doing this pretty frequently already?

-move to Vermont: really? it's that simple? just move to Vermont?

-start using twitter: f#@&% twitter!

-celebrate the life of Miles Davis: not a fan

OK, admittedly I didn't click on all the links. I know I'm being a bit caustic here, but overall that list seems sort of random and useless. To me, anyway.

[Félix]

That's the way life comes at you, Shelly, random and useless.

This reminds me of Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover."

[RandomAnthony]

-start using twitter: f#@&% twitter!

Heh. That made me laugh. I'm not doing twitter, either.

[Pamela(AllHoney)]

I just got me a new toothbrush.
Vermont - ain't gonna happen.
I can go with the naps and I could even read up on Edgar Allen Poe again.
I'm already trying to teach my daughter to cook :)
Not gonna try to mow 12 acres with a push mower. NO WAY! Oh wait, that's hubby job :)
I think I'll go do a crossword puzzle.
Caio!

[Sally, la reina]

Twitter annoys me. I tried it once. There is no point, unless my friends are on it. Why tell a bunch of randoms out in cyber where ever, "Sally is now brushing her teeth" with no other context whatsoever?

Blech.

[Félix]

It's a sad commentary on the state of mind of many people these days -- like nothing is real unless you tell someone else about it.

[Sally, la reina]

That is a lot of what I wrote my Foucault paper on this semester. The modern isolation of internet/television/suburbia and how people innately attempt to reach out (albeit half-assedly) and establish communities and networks outside of the power-structure imposed by the media. Or something.

[Félix]

I think people need to be comfortable with being isolated at least part of the time in order to maintain sanity. Or something.

[Sarah]

What is twitter?

[Félix]

"Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?"

http://twitter.com/

[[deleted user]]

It's like only having the status update feature on facebook.

[Sarah]

That seems totally pointless.

[Félix]

From your lips to God's ear .... (I agree with you.)

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

I avoid microwaving food in plastic because of the chemicals leaching into the food (and I melted a bowl once heating up macaroni and cheese), but I still have some plastic tupperware.
I change my toothbrush regularly, since I got a ten-pack at Costco, and I just made an appointment to get my eyes checked on the 12th. I really need new glasses, since I've mysteriously scratched mine all to heck.
I already do crossword puzzles, I took a year of Russian in college and got my fill, GoodReads is kind of journal-like for me already without keeping a paper journal.
"Help those hit by the recession". I have been meaning to give money to the Salvation Army, so I guess I'd better go do that this weekend.

[[deleted user]]

Saint Jackie the Librarian.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

I take vitamins, too. It makes my life very dull to talk about, Sarah.

[[deleted user]]

I do not live how you live.

[RandomAnthony]

I like vitamins. I miss them when I don't take them. I take a multivitamin and a special vitamin C one.

That would be my most recent Twitter post:

"RA took his vitamins."

But you're not that dull, Jacks. That gives me a thread idea...

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

No, I personally am not dull (it helps that I'm a good listener), but stories about my life are not that exciting.
No, I never almost died, no, I don't know anyone famous, in fact I don't go out much...
No, I don't even have drunken shenanigans to talk about...
I floss every day, okay?! I'm that kind of person.

[Cyril]

You sound just like me, Jackie, except the "dull" part.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Come sit next to me, Cyril, and we can make fun of all the cool kids. :)