Negative, Negative, Negative.

I have decided that my New Year's Resolution is to rid my life of the negative people. Got something nasty to say? Gone! Posting something uncalled for on the Facebook page? DELETE!
Wanna throw out some criticisms at people who do nothing but give and give? You're done!!
Gossiping about someone I like? You're asking for it.

Now I realize that living in a world where there's only positive people is unrealistic. I know this. I also understand that many people are unhappy and this has tailored their attitude to be somewhat less than fantastic. I get it.

But I refuse to keep those people in my life who have nothing to worry about yet they're constantly making the rest of us listen to their negativity. Heck, I know one of them reads this blog all the time so she can "report" her findings back at Headquarters. Get real. Even better, get a life. And here's a news flash: nobody cares.

So there it is. My New Year's Resolution. I adopted it today, January 12th, 2011.

As a first step toward promoting good feelings, I will post an old picture, of a waterfall Steve and I discovered on old Route 66 during a little rain storm:

That's a positive waterfall.

Can't Not Watch

Whenever Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan is on t.v. (usually the SyFy Channel) I cannot walk away. For some reason, I have not seen that movie enough. It is entertaining, and endearing at the same time. Lots of action, some twists and turns, but then there's the end where Spock dies.

He sacrificed himself to deadly radiation exposure in order to fix the Enterprise--which needed to get moving because it was about to be destroyed by a huge explosion. Once the ship is fixed and out of harm's way, Admiral Kirk is told to get down to the engine room where he finds Spock staggering around in a sealed-off compartment, obviously dying. They speak thru the glass, Spock tells him the "needs of the many outweighed the needs of the few..." (or the one)
and he slowly passes away. Immediately they have Spock's funeral, sending his body to the newly formed planet nearby. I cry and cry and cry whenever I see this movie.
I thought maybe I was the only one with this reaction, till I read on online article which listed the top tear-jerker movies of all time. Spock's death was right up there with Steel Magnolias and Terms of Endearment.

See, now, I'm not nuts...