Is anyone making New Year's resolutions?

[calm_kiwi]

My resolution is “stop pretending that the 1st of a new year will make me do anything I don’t really want to do”

I feel much more confident in meeting this goal then I did with the whole 'NO SMOKING" one.

[Ms.Pumpkin]

Quit smoking. I have one pack left and when it’s gone, it’s gone.
Keep a cleaner house, so I can buy nice things for it with all that cigarette money.

[Dinsdale]

I stopped making NY resolutions a few years back when I read something that made sense to me. It said a main reason the majority of NY resolutions aren’t kept is that if you were serious about changing something about your life and were the type of person who followed through with such things, you wouldn’t need to wait for a specific day to act on it.

So I’ve tried to make improvements/adjustments where I felt them needed. A couple reasonably recent ones involved stopping drinking - begun in an April, and starting a particular exercise regimen, begun in a December. But I don’t feel the need to search for something to change just because of an arbitrary calendar date.

[Trunk]

@Dinsdale

I stopped making NY resolutions a few years back when I read something that made sense to me. It said a main reason the majority of NY resolutions aren’t kept is that if you were serious about changing something about your life and were the type of person who followed through with such things, you wouldn’t need to wait for a specific day to act on it.

So I’ve tried to make improvements/adjustments where I felt them needed. A couple reasonably recent ones involved stopping drinking - begun in an April, and starting a particular exercise regimen, begun in a December. But I don’t feel the need to search for something to change just because of an arbitrary calendar date.

That’s what I’ve always thought. . .if there’s something I was doing that I thought was wrong, I’d already be trying not to do it.

[tdn]

I’ve codified these into resolutions, but they are things I’d be doing anyway. I’ve already got a head start on most of them.

-Improve my social life

-Improve my artistic skills, mostly by drawing, drawing, drawing

-Reconnect with my musical side

-Reach my goal weight

-Stop smoking

[Hostile_Dialect]

I don’t really do NYR anymore, but an old friend from high school IMed me at the stroke of midnight and asked me if I had any, so I made some up off the top of my head:

@me

1. drink more
2. worry less
3. come just as often
4. but into more people and fewer towels
5. oh yeah, and start smoking again and then quit easily just to taunt my smoker friends

Yep, I’m goin’ to hell.

That said, I’m making serious progress on 1 and 2, doing ok on 3, making headway towards 4 (just got a new friend-with-benefits, though the juicier benefits haven’t come yet) and not too steely in my resolve for 5. (I’ll probably abandon that one. )

If I were to make real resolutions, though, they would be:

Be less snarky
Hike more
Do more illegal urban exploration

[AngelicGemma]

I don’t normally make them, but this year I’m gonna lose some weight.

Calories today - 0

Okay, so it’s only noon…