New Year's Resolutions

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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So - anyone gonna better themselves in the New Year? I mean, not that we aren’t The Best and The Brightest already, but I guess there’s always room for improvement…

I’ve only got two this year:

  1. Suffer fools more gladly, and

  2. Learn to fly, but not the “inside of an airplane” way.

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I resolve not to resolve to do stuff that I probably won’t do like keep New Year’s resolutions.

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Life’s too unpredictable right now. The major parameters of my life keep turning on a dime, and I figure that a broken resolution is worse than no resolution at all.

Maybe I should go with some safe ones…

[ul][]I resolve not do any crack-cocaine or PCP this year.[]I resolve not to duct-tape Annes Geddes to a large wrecking ball.I resolve to do everything in my power to give my daughter what she needs to thrive.[/ul]

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By a car. (cheap second hand skip that will get me from A to A.2)
Spend as much as possible on a new digital camera.

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Create the beautiful harbour before the Grey Havens at the end of RotK in a choice 3d app so that I can render it as a 1280x800 desktop background rather than simply taking a (300x200??) screenshot of the dvd and setting it as the background, and instead of the progress made so far which involved making an arched window shaped hole in a square and instantly getting wildly sidetracked.
I know I have the skill. I just lack the attention span.

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[hijack]Which camera are you looking at?(slobber, slobber)[/hijack]

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On this Message Board this year I hope to score
With some funny jokes you’ve never heard before.
I resolve not to tell a corny joke.
“Hello, what’s that? The church burned down? Holy smoke!”
This is myyyyy New Year’s Resolution.

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Same as I resolve to do every year – quit smoking.

And to work less but get more done. And to get rid of some stereotypes that I still hold onto and just generally be a better person.

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Same here, SolGrundy. Fortunately, this year, all the smokers around me are resolving the same thing. Fingers crossed.

Errrr…so, the “throw yourself at the ground and miss” way, then?

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  1. Get back to the gym, quit eating junk and lose weight.
  2. Save money for Christmas
  3. Socialize more
  4. Get to bed earlier
  5. Spend less time online
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I quit smoking last year (Christmas Day marked six months without a cigarette!), so I have decided that I’ve already f*cking been good enough to last me a couple more years without resolving to do anything else difficult and unpleasant.

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  1. Commit fully to Weight Watcher’s and get slim,
  2. Work as hard as I possibly can to get a good grade in Linguistics,
  3. Be more patient and understanding with my family,
  4. Learn to drive,
  5. Take up the piano again in the summer,
  6. Sign up for some clubs.

I’m sure I’ve got more floating around…

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Financial discipline. Once I pay off my credit card debt, not accruing more. Better contribution to my IRA. This year I may be considering buying a house if all goes well (ie I get a professional job), and I’ve got to make some life-changing shifts in the way I think about money.

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  1. Quit Smoking
  2. Lose at least 40 lbs
  3. Quit spending more than I earn (and actually possibly save)
  4. Floss daily

Boy, my life is pretty dull, huh?

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First things first, I have to become a paying doper, my trial expires on New Years Day.

Quit smoking, again. I went 8 months, then started again on the 4th of July. I have made a million excuses to have another one since then.

I also have to quit being such a chickensh*t about my writing.

Three is a good number for a list, without saying hello to any other dopers that become annoyed with there name being referenced.

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Start flossing. I still can’t make myself do that. It’s so hard to start doing.
Make poms when I try out this spring(!!!)

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  1. Lose weight. Start exercising seriously, until it’s a part of my life. Eat sensibly, healthily and low-calorie…y.

  2. Get organised.

  3. Quit procrastinating.

  4. Save money. Every month. Don’t touch it.

  5. Stop being a slob, both myself and the household. For example, if someone came to the door right now, I’d have to hide. I haven’t showered yet, I have bed-head, and the fig tree has dumped all its leaves by the front door.

  6. Quit wasting quite so much time online! Sitting down at the computer to “write” doesn’t mean surfing for four hours and writing for 15 minutes.

  7. Have more sex. My husband has expressed serious discontent with the lack of nookie in our household lately. See 1., as for why I don’t feel sexy.

  8. Submit regularly. You can’t be published unless you submit. See 3. and 6.

  9. Go on an actual holiday somewhere.

  10. Curb my impulse spending. See 4.

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I also have been advised by the sadistic dental hygienist to add:

  1. Floss regularly.

I hate flossing.

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Lose weight and get in shape (duh!)

I’m in a contest with a friend of mine up in Canada. Whoever does not lose the most weight % by mid-February has to post a picture of themselves wearing only a Speedo on a runners message board we frequent.

So far I am off to a great start. Ate like a pig over the weekend, and have had 4 cookies someone brought in to work today.

I so suck.

(P.S. I floss every morning since I had my gums scraped. Both sides. Top and bottom. THAT will make a regular flosser out of anyone.)

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Send birthday and anniversary cards to my friends and loved ones.