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  Let's face it: Your New Year’s resolutions have already collapsed, your enthusiasm for the new year has vanished, and the universe is throwing lemons at your face instead of handing them to you to make lemonade. If this year is already shaping up to be a disaster, don’t worry—you’ve still got ten months to begrudgingly endure it. Here’s how to survive the madness with your sanity (mostly) intact. 1. Lower Your Expectations (No, Lower… Even Lower) Remember how you thought this would be your year and time to shine?  How adorable! Now let’s bring those expectations down. No, lower. Keep going. There it is—just aim for “Didn’t Completely Fall Apart,” and you’re golden. 2. Take Life One Day (or One Snack) at a Time Are you thinking about surviving the entire year? Overwhelming.  The whole month? Still too much. Break it down into tiny pieces: just survive the day. If that’s still too hard, just make it to your next snack break. From snacks to snacks, you can make it through ...

It's the cricket season and all the fans are clamoring to watch every single match on TV or in the stadium. However, friends and family members of cricket fans who do not enjoy cricket will find their TV time privileges revoked. They will have no choice but to watch cricket with them.  Here's how you can enjoy watching cricket   1) Master the Rules (Sort Of):  Try to understand the rules.  Emphasis on try.  If you accidentally yell "Touchdown!" during a particularly exciting moment, just own it.  Confidence is key.   2)  Find a Commentator Who Loves Weird Stats :  The kind of commentator who gets excited about things like "This is the first time a left-handed batsman with a name starting with 'B' has scored a six on a Tuesday in July against a team wearing yellow socks."  That's the good stuff.   3)  Watch with Friends Who Bring Snacks: Cricket can be a long game.  Your friends are your support system, and their snacks a...

  Methods of communication have changed over the years. From letters to phone calls, to emails and chats, we have come to rely on different modes for various situations.  There was a time when phone calls were the most preferred form of communication but more and more people have found the benefits of texting and how reliable they can be.  And if you have phone anxiety, then you will be more than pleased to know that texting can actually come with a lot of benefits.  In case anyone ever judges you for not calling and choosing to text instead, here are the reasons you can use:  1) Avoiding small talk  You know what’s the best thing about texting? You don’t have to spend much time with exchanging pleasantries or talking about the weather. Texting was invented to make everyone get to the point faster.  After the general greeting, texting allows you to get to the crux of the conversation.  The faster you get to the point, the faster you can resolve an...

  Being a writer means you are inducted into this special program where you get to use this special language and euphemisms to sound really dedicated to your craft, and of course, smart.  Once you’ve announced that you are a writer, everyone will want to know the status of your current projects and what you do the entire day. The life of a writer makes people highly inquisitive and while they are in awe of your chosen career, they may not know the everyday hurdles a writer faces. And so, as a writer, you have no choice but to answer their curious questions with enigmatic replies.  If you’re not a writer and want to decipher what a writer is actually trying to say, here’s some helpful phrases:  1) What Writers say: "I'm brainstorming." What they mean: "I'm staring at the wall and hoping for divine intervention." It’s not easy being a writer and coming up with ideas all the time. There are good ones and extremely useless ones, and more often than not, writers ...

  Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and no doubt there are going to be several romance movies lined up for you to get into the spirit.  But year after year, you may have noticed that these movies are becoming overly formulaic and you can see the ending coming from a mile away.  Worse, the minute the characters are introduced, you know exactly how their love story is going to pan out.  Now you’re beginning to see the same designs and groaning inwardly. Have you become skeptical? Too Real? Or unromantic?  Here are the TOP 10 Worst Romantic Movie Tropes: 1) The Coffee Spill Why does it seem that every romance movie has a coffee scene? The main leads are either having coffee or spilling it on each other. There's just a gasp and then a couple of irate dialogues. What they fail to point out is that coffee can be scalding hot. It actually hurts to have coffee spilt on you. Iced coffees are fine, but movies generally show the leads splash each other with hot cof...