My Christmas gift to you: a year's worth of Wisdom

Since I can't track you all down to send you tins of my famous cookies (and couldn't afford the postage anyhow)...I figured I should give the gift of knowledge...a year worth of stuff I learned. And, yeah, here's the cookie recipe too.
Heavenly Chocolate Chip Cookies
1/2 cup softened margarine
2/3 cup shortening
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup brown sugar, packed
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1- 12 oz. package semi-sweet chips

Cream margarine and shortening until smooth. Beat in eggs, sugars, and vanilla; mix until well-blended. Gradually add flour, salt, and baking soda. When well-blended, fold in chocolate chips. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls unto ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 375 F for 8 but no longer than 10 minutes. These cookies will be golden brown in spots. Even if they look underdone, do not cook them for longer than 10 minutes--they will settle into perfection.
As a variation, these are also good made with white chocolate chips.

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Stuff I learned this year

Tony Danza's talk show is actually pretty good. (Dec., Chris' week home w/bronchitis)
There's a stretch of Rt.I-90 between it being the Mass. Pike and the NY state Thruway, and it's almost like "Where the Sidewalk Ends".
Clipping coupons really does pay off.
Though we didn't quite make it to marriage, saving sex for the one I'm marrying was well worth it.
Tuna+pasta+olives+mayo=dinner
There is no shame in having frozen pizza for breakfast.
Give a man Super Mario Brothers, see him be amused indefinitely.
AOL(c) sucks Twinkies (c).
Washing dishes in the tub is good because you can let all the pots and pans soak at once.
If you're good to them, Betta fish can last a long time. (Kenny will be 2 in February.)
You're never too old for Spongebob.
Love DOES NOT mean never having to say you're sorry. It means saying you're sorry a lot, which is how often you have to.