It’s a play on Freudian Slip. Different psychologist and different piece of intimate apparel is all.
I’ll try to stop drinking.
Get a girlfriend
Be less influenced by other people’s aesthetics. Think harder about my own.
Why?
Multiple reasons, personal, physical, and mental.
I’m not against other people drinking. It’s just that I myself need to stop it (and have needed to stop it for some years now, to be honest.)
I don’t usually make resolutions because the two main ones (lose weight and quit smoking*) are things I’m constantly trying to do anyway. This year I did decide to stop procrastinating so damn much. I made it through the first semester of my program at school but my massive procrastination problem made it a whole lot harder than it needed to be. I know I can get all A’s without too much hassle as long as I get off my lazy ass and do my homework and studying all along instead of waiting for the last minute.
*I am getting ready to start working out but that has nothing to do with the New Year and everything to do with me asking for Slim in 6 for my birthday.
I resolve to convince GIGObuster that Climate Change isn’t really that big a deal compared with other problems facing us, and I resolve to convince iiandyiiii that differences in the average gene pool among SIRE groups account for a large part of observed outcome differences for various skillsets.
Wish me luck.
I already registered to help with the documents and translation efforts of organizations that continue to work to inform the public about what the scientists do actually say about the dangers of climate change.
Ohh, that is too bad to see someone like the **Chief **to fail in their resolution on the first day… 
That was going to be mine. Then I remembered that it’s been my resolution for the past five years and I didn’t want to disappoint myself again. So I went with quitting smoking.
No New Year’s Eve resolutions here.
I only make a resolution when a problem has been identified. And once the resolution has been made, I follow the program. I don’t need to renew it. I’m kind of predictable that way.
I stopped drinking and smoking six months ago so I don’t think I’ll bother with a New Year’s resolution.
But the whole point of the New Year resolution is to stick to it, and not give up just because I fail the first day. So I’m gonna stick to it. 
To clarify: it’s not my resolution to change what scientists say about the dangers of climate change (although I’m hoping that can clarify which proximate dangers might rise to the level of changing behaviour and willingness to sacrifice for a common good).
My resolution re GIGObuster is to convince him that Climate Change doesn’t rank very high compared with other problems such as overpopulation and raping the environment in a thousand other ways (not the least of which is consumption of earth’s resources and intractably altering the natural ecosystem because there are so many of us running it over).
Anyway, 364 more days to go to persuade GIGObuster he’s barking up the wrong tree if the fundamental goal is a better world.
With that clarification I’ll bow out of the thread so as not to distract it.
I will bow also but I have to clarify, you are missing that I base my opinion on what the scientists and experts in economy report, you are indeed barking up the wrong tree, take it to Nordhaus that last year became president of the American Economical Association, and the National Academy of Science.
As their conclusions are reached after doing decades of research, I can say that you already failed, look for a better resolution.
I don’t eat fruit. It’s not uncommon for me to go several months without eating a piece of fruit. I don’t hate it (although I don’t love it either), I just don’t ever really think about it. We always have fruit in the house, which my wife insists on keeping in a bag in the crisper in the fridge, which means I never see it, which reduces the likelihood that I’ll ever eat it.
So a few months ago I told her, if we kept it on the counter in a bowl or something, I’d be more inclined to eat some. But she doesn’t like the idea of a bowl because the air can’t circulate around it (or something; I’m not entirely sure. Plus it seems that air circulation is even more hampered when it’s in a plastic bag in the crisper, but I choose not to mention that), so I said, if you get a fruit basket that meets your specifications and keep it on the counter with fruit in it, I’ll make a concerted effort to eat it.
So she did- she bought me a really nice fruit basket for Christmas. And every day since Christmas, I have eaten (and enjoyed) a piece of fresh fruit. So today, my first day back to work, while in the shower, kept reminding myself to grab a piece out of the basket before I left for the office. And since I had so far had an unbroken streak of fruit-eating for the last week, decided that while it wasn’t so much a resolution, I was going to see how long I could go taking advantage of my cool new fruit basket and eating a piece each day.
And today I broke the streak- I left the house without so much as glancing in the direction of the basket.
So as resolutions go, it lasted one day. But as a general goal of eating more of it, I can probably keep that up notwithstanding today’s hiccup, and hopefully it will become so habitual that I don’t really think about it anymore.
Yes, mine is to cut out the cookies today.
Here’s the secret to making something habitual: Don’t vow to do it “forever.” Instead, say you’ll do it for three weeks, and three weeks only. But by the end of the three weeks, you can’t stop.
My resolutions:
- Exercise 200 times (I’m at 2).
- Read 50 books.
- Keep kid in college without breaking the bank.
I don’t make resolutions usually, but here goes. Having lost 80-85 lbs since 2000, and having stayed within a five pound over the last year and a half, I hereby resolve to stay within that same five pound range. I am currently about 1.6 lb from the top of the range, but I gained nearly a pound at a New Year’s Eve party and that is coming off (a lot of it was water since I generally stick to low salt, but not at that party).
I expect to keep that resolution. What I would like to do is really declutter the house so that when we have to move (home maintenance is increasingly hard for us) we can. But I probably won’t do that.