Single-minded

Found the "extended Director's cut" of The Lords of Dogtown in the $4.00 bin at a large retailers, and it is fantastic.

Movie is about street skateboarding, but actually, almost better than the movie, are all the extras: interviews with all the original 1970's skateboarders who were generously given parts in the film by director Catherine Hardwicke, the deleted scenes, behind the scenes-scenes, and truly harrowing footage of the results when the actors and stuntmen wiped out, as they did with alarming regularity. And even a terrifying bit of footage as the Director herself overbalances and falls into a dry concrete swimming pool, ouch.

There is nothing like a good obsession to get your mind off, let's see, everything else!

These actors practiced surfboarding and skateboarding for 6 hours a day for a couple months to get ready, which makes Cow's relatively modest goals for 2010 seem paltry, but here goes:

-Find at least two single girlfriends to hang out with (Cow is going to start with joining the Sierra Club and possibly expand to another group) instead of, at the present time, having all her girlfriends be married. Married girlfriends just don't have the same concerns, and the friendship they offer is too limited, and usually all tied up with their kids.*

-study for at least one hour a day, starting with a big fat Excel 2007 book, going on to some others, to improve her skills, to improve her chances of getting a job Somewhere Else than Mississippi, in a couple years.

-Let go of everything else and just enjoy life.

Okay, those are fairly easy goals, so Cow wishes, not only every one else just as easily accomplishable New Year's Resolutions, but also the happiness of a New Year.

2010 Moo!

*by the way, Cow sympathizes with all the single guys who say they never meet any single women, because, Cow never meets them either! Where they are hiding, who knows, but will keep you posted.