Happy New Year!

**kathydwells** · 12-31-2008, 06:11 AM

Haven't been able to be on much lately, but I did want to take a minute to wish all of you a very Happy New Year! I am ready for new year for sure! Please be careful out there whatever you do tonight. Much Love to all of you!

**ClintClint** · 12-31-2008, 06:24 AM

Back at ya' and roll Tide!!

**Teresa** · 12-31-2008, 08:13 AM

Happy New Year Darlene and all!!!

**Mango** · 12-31-2008, 08:40 AM

Happy New Year, All. Be safe.

Toots, your video is not working.

**Teresa** · 12-31-2008, 11:31 AM

Originally Posted by Mango

Happy New Year, All. Be safe.

Toots, your video is not working.

well, dammitall!

**Beach Runner** · 12-31-2008, 12:23 PM

**Franny** · 12-31-2008, 12:28 PM

Happy New Year to our Sowal family!!

**SWGB** · 12-31-2008, 12:33 PM

New Happy Year!! May you resolutions all your keep.

Don't drink and drive keep it safe.

Write these down, program them in your phone, have them tattooed on your forehead!

850-200-2258
850-622-5455

That's paradise taxi. Remember the average cost of a DUI is $2,500.00. Paradise taxi will take you home for around $25.00.

**Miss Kitty** · 12-31-2008, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by sowalgayboi

New Happy Year!! May you resolutions all your keep.

Don't drink and drive keep it safe.

Write these down, program them in your phone, have them tattooed on your forehead!

850-200-2258
850-622-5455

That's paradise taxi. Remember the average cost of a DUI is $2,500.00. Paradise taxi will take you home for around $25.00.

Thanks for looking out for us, swgb.

Wonder if they will take me home tonight.

**SWGB** · 12-31-2008, 02:03 PM

Originally Posted by Miss Kitty

Thanks for looking out for us, swgb.

Wonder if they will take me home tonight.

Oh just walk, lord knows you won't need a flash light.

**Beachbummett** · 12-31-2008, 03:04 PM

Hope everyone has a safe and wonderful evening. Here is to a prosperous, healthy, Happy New Year!

�Another fresh new year is here . . .
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!

This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest . . .
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!

I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!�

**TooFarTampa** · 12-31-2008, 03:10 PM

Great thread! Happy New Year everyone

DD · 12-31-2008, 03:53 PM

Happy New Year everyone!!!

**scooterbug44** · 12-31-2008, 04:00 PM

Happy New Year!!!

I'm an hour behind now, so I'll be celebrating at 1 am your time!

**Miss Critter** · 12-31-2008, 04:06 PM

Looking forward to a wonderful 2009 - the year of miracles!

**aggieb** · 12-31-2008, 05:28 PM

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
for those who sing and can't remember the lyrics.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne
We twa hae run aboot the braes
And pou'd the gowans fine;
we've wander'd mony a weary foot
Sin' auld lang syne
We two hae paidled i' the burn,
Frae mornin' sun till dine;
But seas between us braid hae roar'd
Sin' auld lang syne
And here's a hand, my trusty friend,
And gie's a hand o' thine;
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne? For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne

**Miss Kitty** · 12-31-2008, 05:42 PM

Originally Posted by aggieb

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
for those who sing and can't remember the lyrics.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne
We twa hae run aboot the braes
And pou'd the gowans fine;
we've wander'd mony a weary foot
Sin' auld lang syne
We two hae paidled i' the burn,
Frae mornin' sun till dine;
But seas between us braid hae roar'd
Sin' auld lang syne
And here's a hand, my trusty friend,
And gie's a hand o' thine;
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne? For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne

...how drunk were these people?

**Sheila** · 12-31-2008, 05:49 PM

Originally Posted by Miss Kitty

...how drunk were these people?

Drunk, Scottish, it's all the same thing. I'll bet they all hug each other and cry at the end of it too.

DD · 12-31-2008, 06:07 PM

Originally Posted by Miss Kitty

...how drunk were these people?

My thoughts exactly. Well, what I really thought was...after a few martinis, this would make perfect sense.

**Angelrlc** · 12-31-2008, 07:17 PM

Happy New Year! Be safe and have fun!

**Beach Runner** · 12-31-2008, 07:24 PM

Originally Posted by aggieb

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
for those who sing and can't remember the lyrics.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?

Daughter put the lyrics in the background of my Happy New Year message in my previous post.

That song always reminds me of When Harry Met Sally. That song and "I'll have what she's having."

**waterst1** · 12-31-2008, 08:58 PM

I want to wish for us all a great New Year. No matter how difficult, we are living in a wonderful place.

**ShallowsNole** · 12-31-2008, 11:57 PM

Happy New Year...it's almost here, in SoWal!!

**sonny** · 01-01-2009, 12:02 AM

Happy '09 Y'all. I wish the best to all of you.
Sonny

**AAbsolute** · 01-01-2009, 12:25 AM

Happy New Year.

**Andy A** · 01-01-2009, 12:59 AM

Well, 2009 is here and almost an hour old and at this point in time I don't notice anything different. So I hope everyone has a prosperous and Happy New Year and everything get much better and not worse. It is way past my bedtime but the fireworks were beautiful.

**SWGB** · 01-01-2009, 02:00 AM

Wow and according to your light you're still up Andy A.

Happy 2009 Sowal who's still up for the polar bear run?

**kurt** · 01-01-2009, 06:49 AM

Happy New Year!

**Bobby J** · 01-01-2009, 09:43 AM

Wow! 2009! Here is to a better year! The year of the Bull! The year of stability. The year of positive attitudes (thats for my kids). The year of hope! Happy New Year to all my Sowal friends!

Thanks for making 2008 bearable!

**JUL** · 01-01-2009, 10:12 AM

Happy New Year SoWallers!

**Jdarg** · 01-01-2009, 10:30 AM

Happy New Year to you Darlene! I just saw that I have a message from you on my cell!

**Alicia Leonard** · 01-02-2009, 10:48 AM

My Wishes for You in 2009:

May peace break into your house and may thieves come to steal your debts. May the pockets of your jeans become a magnet for $100 bills. May love stick to your face like Vaseline and may laughter assault your lips! May your clothes smell of success like smoking tires. May happiness slap you across the face and may your tears be that of joy. May the problems you had
forget your home address!
In simple words...
May 2009 be the best year of your life!!!

**scooterbug44** · 01-02-2009, 06:55 PM

Originally Posted by aleonard

My Wishes for You in 2009:
May peace break into your house and may thieves come to steal your debts. May the pockets of your jeans become a magnet for $100 bills. May love stick to your face like Vaseline and may laughter assault your lips! May your clothes smell of success like smoking tires. May happiness slap you across the face and may your tears be that of joy. May the problems you had
forget your home address!
In simple words...
May 2009 be the best year of your life!!!

This Rocks!!!!

**Jdarg** · 01-03-2009, 09:48 AM

Originally Posted by aleonard

My Wishes for You in 2009:

May peace break into your house and may thieves come to steal your debts. May the pockets of your jeans become a magnet for $100 bills. May love stick to your face like Vaseline and may laughter assault your lips! May your clothes smell of success like smoking tires. May happiness slap you across the face and may your tears be that of joy. May the problems you had
forget your home address!
In simple words...
May 2009 be the best year of your life!!!

Very awesome AL! Hope your reno is going well! (and quickly!)

I have been chewing on resolutions for a few days, and most of my thoughts seem to revolve around the "community organizer" term that became such a great catch phrase during the Obama campaign.

2009 needs to be the year where every single person takes responsibility in some way, big or small, for their community. The ways? Everything from picking up litter to volunteering at schools to collecting food for the poor to running for local offices- the list is endless.

The larger the percentage of community members giving back to their community, the more successful the community will be. So go out in your community and be a community organizer, leader, builder, giver- whatever you want to call yourself. Encourage others to give of their time, ideas, energies, and resources. The start of the new year is an excellent time to make plans to better yourself AND the world around you.

**Miss Critter** · 01-03-2009, 10:08 AM

Originally Posted by aleonard

My Wishes for You in 2009:

May peace break into your house and may thieves come to steal your debts. May the pockets of your jeans become a magnet for $100 bills. May love stick to your face like Vaseline and may laughter assault your lips! May your clothes smell of success like smoking tires. May happiness slap you across the face and may your tears be that of joy. May the problems you had
forget your home address!
In simple words...
May 2009 be the best year of your life!!!

Originally Posted by jdarg

Very awesome AL! Hope your reno is going well! (and quickly!)

I have been chewing on resolutions for a few days, and most of my thoughts seem to revolve around the "community organizer" term that became such a great catch phrase during the Obama campaign.

2009 needs to be the year where every single person takes responsibility in some way, big or small, for their community. The ways? Everything from picking up litter to volunteering at schools to collecting food for the poor to running for local offices- the list is endless.

The larger the percentage of community members giving back to their community, the more successful the community will be. So go out in your community and be a community organizer, leader, builder, giver- whatever you want to call yourself. Encourage others to give of their time, ideas, energies, and resources. The start of the new year is an excellent time to make plans to better yourself AND the world around you.

Ladies, you are two of the main reasons I love sowal.

**Jdarg** · 01-03-2009, 10:09 AM

Originally Posted by MissCritter

Ladies, you are two of the main reasons I love sowal.

And I hope to see you more in 2009!

**Miss Critter** · 01-03-2009, 10:10 AM

Originally Posted by jdarg

And I hope to see you more in 2009!

Let's make that a resolution.

**Andy A** · 01-03-2009, 10:41 AM

Originally Posted by aleonard

My Wishes for You in 2009:

May peace break into your house and may thieves come to steal your debts. May the pockets of your jeans become a magnet for $100 bills. May love stick to your face like Vaseline and may laughter assault your lips! May your clothes smell of success like smoking tires. May happiness slap you across the face and may your tears be that of joy. May the problems you had
forget your home address!
In simple words...
May 2009 be the best year of your life!!!

Very, very nice and so well said. Thank you AL.

**SWGB** · 01-03-2009, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by jdarg

And I hope to see you more in 2009!

Katch the Klatch!

**Alicia Leonard** · 01-04-2009, 09:35 AM

Originally Posted by jdarg

Very awesome AL! Hope your reno is going well! (and quickly!)

I have been chewing on resolutions for a few days, and most of my thoughts seem to revolve around the "community organizer" term that became such a great catch phrase during the Obama campaign.

2009 needs to be the year where every single person takes responsibility in some way, big or small, for their community. The ways? Everything from picking up litter to volunteering at schools to collecting food for the poor to running for local offices- the list is endless.

The larger the percentage of community members giving back to their community, the more successful the community will be. So go out in your community and be a community organizer, leader, builder, giver- whatever you want to call yourself. Encourage others to give of their time, ideas, energies, and resources. The start of the new year is an excellent time to make plans to better yourself AND the world around you.

It's going and I am happy with my contractor.Will be faster now that the holidays are over. In the office working this morning. I've had withdrawls from my lack of sowal. I agree with your post. I am a firm believer in the ripple effect. Starting at home and working your way out is a great way to help spread good in your community and the effects have the posibility of being much more far reaching. I've joined two non- profit advisory boards this new year to try and help shape their publicity and help aid in their growth.

Originally Posted by MissCritter

Ladies, you are two of the main reasons I love sowal.

You know I

both of you.

Originally Posted by MissCritter

Let's make that a resolution.

Sounds good.

Originally Posted by Andy A.

Very, very nice and so well said. Thank you AL.

Thanks, Andy.

I always get this wish from a retired semi-celeb friend of mine. Came to NW Fla and stays on the rivers every weekend. It always make me smile and I wanted to share it with all of you.

Originally Posted by sowalgayboi

Katch the Klatch!

I know I am out of the loop right now, but will I need antibiotics if I do this?