I used to sit with some friends on New Year’s Eve and make predictions for the new year. We’d all brain storm, write our thoughts on a piece of paper, and then put it away. The next year, on New Year’s Eve, we’d pull out the list and see how psychic we were. As it turned out, we were mostly just psycho, but it was fun anyway.

Here are a few of my Blogstream predictions for 2007.

What are yours??

Please tell us what you see happening in the coming year, and, God willing, we’ll all take a look next year and see who gets to join the Psychic Friend’s Network!

1. Randy will quit smoking and we will see a dramatic decrease in blood cannon warfare as he slips on a misplaced bowl of oatmeal and decides, upon waking from the coma, to become a Quaker.

2. Fuzzy will be so impressed with his jury duty experience that he will go back to school to study law. After one semester, he will organize a semi-hostile takeover of Chuck E Cheese. The dancing mouse will be required to wear a Buckeye jersey, and all of the pizzas will be replaced with giant hamburgers.

3. Lucy and CH make the cover of Money Magazine when they open the first and only Glamor Shots for Feet salon on the east coast.

4. Belle will become so good at rocket launching penguins that she’ll go pro. She will spend half of her prize money going into business with Zappa Fan when they re-open Club Baby Seal.

5. Prank will develop a line of sauces and seasonings designed exclusively for cannibals. When he goes public with his recipes for Baked Alaskan, Feetloaf, Californian Roll, Eyes-a-Roni, and Moo Goo Guy, he is given his own show on the Food Network.

6. PolarB spends her summer locked in a house in southern California with eleven other people on a reality show. She wins the million dollars AND the hearts of the nation when she demonstrates her Laser Guided Polar Bear act on national television.

Okay... your turn!

May you get a clean bill of health from your dentist, your cardiologist, your gastro-enterologist, your urologist, your proctologist, your podiatrist, your psychiatrist, your plumber and the I.R.S.


May your hair, your teeth, your face-lift, your abs and your stocks not fall; and may your blood pressure, your triglycerides, your cholesterol, your white blood count and your mortgage interest not rise.

May New Year's Eve find you seated around the table, together with your beloved family and cherished friends. May you find the food better, the environment quieter, the cost much cheaper, and the pleasure much more fulfilling than anything else you might ordinarily do that night.


May what you see in the mirror delight you, and what others see in you delight them. May someone love you enough to forgive your faults, be blind to your blemishes, and tell the world about your virtues.

May the telemarketers wait to make their sales calls until you finish dinner, may the commercials on TV not be louder than the program you have been watching, and may your check book and your budget balance - and include generous amounts for charity.



May you remember to say "I love you" at least once a day to your spouse, your child, your parent, your siblings; but not to your secretary, your nurse, your masseuse, your hairdresser or your tennis instructor.

And may we live in a world at peace and with the awareness of God's love in every sunset, every flower's unfolding petals, every baby's smile, every lover's kiss, and every wonderful, astonishing, miraculous beat of our heart.

Everyone loves gifts. They're fun to receive and great to give. Most gifts wear out, though, eventually. Toys break, clothes wear out or go out of style, food is eaten, and flowers dry up.

It's easy to talk about giving of yourself, but it's not always easy to do. Busy lives, a need for alone time, daily distractions, mood changes... these things can take over and frustrate us, making it difficult to see the needs of others. But the needs are still there. A real gift comes with no strings attached. It's not required, and sometimes not even expected. You give because you want to give.

I'd like to encourage you all to end the year by giving of yourselves in a way that will have a positive impact on your communities. The need for blood is always higher this time of year because of the weather, holiday running, and what-have-you. Sixty percent of us will at some point in our lives need a blood transfusion, but only less than five percent of eligible donors will give blood.

Here are some facts that I thought were interesting:
1. Every two seconds someone in the U.S. needs blood.
2. More than 38,000 blood donations are needed each day.
3. A single car accident victim can require as many as 100 units of blood.
4. Blood cannot be manufactured -- it can only come from generous donors.
5. Shortages of all blood types usually occur during the summer and winter holidays.
6. Donating blood is a safe process.
7. One donation can help save the lives of up to 3 people.
8. If you began donating blood at age 17 and donated every 56 days until you reached 76, you would have donated 48 gallons
of blood, potentially helping save over 1000 lives!

I plan to go to the blood bank on Thursday, and I hope that you will too.
2006 has been a year of surprises, lessons, and amazing blessings, and I can't think of a better way to see it off.