Little Black Dress And Festive Food Optional: More Of A Geek's Guide To Celebrating 2014

More Super-Geeky Ways To Celebrate The New Year, and (use that champagne after all!) they don't all have to be done on new year's eve:
1) Find someone on that Christmas card list you never sent a card to. Send them a new year's card!
2) Where's that book you've been meaning to complete? Turn off the phone. READ for 1 hour. I mean it, turn off the phone.
3) Do the New Year's run at White Rock Lake. It commences at 10 a.m. As the web site states, "get out of the sack sleepy head."
4) Pick a goal, and complete it by the Sell-by date on your milk. After, get rid of the milk.
Yours in dairy awareness,
Alice
And, Don't Forget:
Sparkle! Sparkle! at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas. Open til January 4th.

It's a big old rave at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center tomorrow at 4 p.m. (also today). All you have to do is pay 108.01. This is according to the Dallas Morning News.
Kay Bailey wishes she could be there with you.

Having A Strategy Is So Important. Where's Waldo Girl and Photo Of White Rock Lake

Hi there
My mom always has a strategy when she goes to the grocery store. She knows what she wants. If we go together, most of the time she is at the checkout when I am not.
I have to search for her frantically, after having grabbed a last-minute item.

(I have noticed this about myself, below.)
While this is not always possible: It's important to have a strategy. While there definitely needs to be some work done on my part, I usually have a strategy. Sometimes I am super anal about trying to pick the person in a business or place--just by eyeing them-- that will help me the most. (Being able to do your job is not undervalued!!) I know that can be pretty selfish. Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails miserably.
I have a strategy at McDonald's and at target.

THE END.
Alice
north dallas homegirl
Thanks for reading, and Happy New Year!!!!

The picture was taken at the Dallas Marathon in 2012.
This girl's name is Alexandria. She said she likes Waldo a little bit. And she was very nice about letting me take her photo!

A cool picture. Taken recently at White Rock Lake. I saved it for a long time. I didn't know what to do with it.

I Thought Runners Had Class. And, Kourtney Kardashian Gives Scott A Love Bracelet. Huh.

Hello and Greetings:
While at a run earlier this week, (The Flagpole 8k in Dallas), a woman tried to pass me.
Upon realizing that I was speeding up, she began laughing.
Hot pink skirt and all.
Then when I sped up even more, she laughed in a grotesque, maniacal way and passed me.
I thought most runners had class.

Close to last weekend, I watched an episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians.

Kourtney Kardashian

This was the best picture of Scott Disick I could find. Believe it or not, he is also a model! Thus the excited expresssion. I tried to find a good picture of them together, but it is not possible.

Since the highlight of the episode seemed to be Kourtney Kardashian giving boyfriend Scott Disick a love bracelet--Huh?--I don't think I'll be heavily watching in the future. When Kourtney wasn't sacrificing her every belief to hand over the love bracelet, viewers were watching her whiny expressions.

I saw a coupon for contact lenses that stated: Hurry! Offer ends 10-31-12.

Yes, do hurry! Only three and a half months left.

Perhaps some music-related news in the future.

The End.
Have a great Saturday,
Alice
(North Dallas Homegirl)

North Dallas Homegirl celebrated 5 years of blogging in June.

Life Is Short, Eat Dessert First. And "You're So Polite, You Remind Us Of My Grandmother and Her Aunt."

Hello and Good Afternoon,

While at White Rock Lake this past weekend, I talked to a guy named Roderick. He is a skinny guy with glasses, who looks like he runs. Beside Roderick was a pillow that states, "Life is Short, Eat Dessert First."
Roderick, who is in his 60s and retired, sits near a tree at White Rock Lake. He gives Free Advice and has been doing so for 17 years. Another man named Neil also gives free advice. Some of it is serious and some, not so serious.
A few seconds after I walked up, Roderick said, "You're so polite. We were just talking about my grandmother and her aunt," he gestured to a woman cyclist and fellow advice recipient sitting nearby. "You remind us of them."

It was a sudden compliment. I didn't know whether to be happy, sad or confused. I remain the first and the third options.
I was impressed that he likes to spend his time--hours on end--offering advice to strangers, for apparently no reason at all.

During our brief conversation, Roderick told me that his aunt once dated Ronald Reagan. At the time, she ended up breaking up with him, because he was "not fun enough."

At one point a cyclist rode by near Roderick.
"When is the end of the world?" He shouted, a bit sarcastically. Roderick casually smiled and ignored him. I was thinking to myself: he gets this all the time.

New topic: can a negative experience also be gratifying? I have wanted to write this comment earlier... earlier as in last Tuesday. Because... dear readers... I had a negative experience last week, but it was also gratifying.
Usually for me, it is completely the opposite.

The End.
Have a great day.
Alice
north dallas homegirl
I will be doing a guest blog for my friend Gloria's blog soon.