What are your New Year's Resolutions?

[Sansarya]

I'm going to write every day, having realized it's fail to be a writing teacher and not actually DO any writing (other than in forums).

Also want to try to find a house for my family. We've been "homeless" for two years now, it's time we had a place of our own (plus my sister and her in-laws have moved into the basement and we're living in hell, atm).

Only two goals this year. :)

[Sarah Nerd]

Not a big goal but still a goal. I want to switch over to diet drinks and cut my sugar intake a bit.

[Fmeh]

Getting my music demo promo packs finally completed (ugh, the bio.... ugh.... the bio...., ugh, the cover letter..... I hate bragging, but that's what you have to do in a bio and cover letter... oh I'm just so great and wonderful oh boy... here let me convince you how great I am, hey you peoples my lame accomplishments are just so great, yeay.....) sent off to radio stations and record labels.

Get on SSI disability income for my autism (I've been working with an SSI lawyer on that for 6 months now, the most money I've ever made in a year has been $6,000).

Perform at clubs in the band I'm still forming, Traguna.

Get my sleep schedule normalized to something human again instead of 4 hours here, 3 hours there, etc...

[Multi Prim]

I want to be an expert in neural networks but have nobody know about it.

[Lain (is Bams)]

Not a big goal but still a goal. I want to switch over to diet drinks and cut my sugar intake a bit.

I'm not sure I can stomach diet, but I definitely intend to cut down on my soda intake. I drink waaaaaaaay to much Pepsi (and Mt. Dew, and Dr. Pepper). I would switch to coffee to get my caffeine, but it upsets my stomach most of the time and I feel bloated and crappy. :(

I'd also like to complete two new certifications this year and get a car so Bunnie and I can drive once in awhile.

[Sarah Nerd]

I'm not sure I can stomach diet, but I definitely intend to cut down on my soda intake. I drink waaaaaaaay to much Pepsi (and Mt. Dew, and Dr. Pepper). I would switch to coffee to get my caffeine, but it upsets my stomach most of the time and I feel bloated and crappy. :(

I'd also like to complete two new certifications this year and get a car so Bunnie and I can drive once in awhile.

I never thought I could but I think I have found enough diet drinks I can handle like crystal light teas ect. I've also slowly weened my family from sugar to a sugar/splenda mix in a lot of drinks we make and have gradually upped the splenda and taken down the sugar. Not sure if I'll ever be able to handle diet Colas, but I'm going to try. Everyone says you get used to it. I think if I make sure to tell everyone around me it's happening it won't be so easy for me to not stick with the plan.

[Vengence Opus]

:) ...

...explore the Northwest with my family.

...make more time for Legos.

...quit smoking. :noexpression:

...get a 4.0 for the first time in my life.

...give my lady more flowers.

...rock it 'til the wheels falls off. :dancingbanana2:

[Fmeh]

I'm going to add to mine:

Going out and hiking on some trails at least once a week.

[Sansarya]

:bump: :)

[Jen]

I hate bragging, but that's what you have to do in a bio and cover letter... oh I'm just so great and wonderful oh boy... here let me convince you how great I am, hey you peoples my lame accomplishments are just so great, yeay.....) sent off to radio stations and record labels.



I've had to write several press releases, cover letters, bios, etc etc etc. It used to be really difficult until a friend of mine taught me a couple of things.

One was that I needed to get out of my own head and stick to factoids to start out- so I made a list of things I'd actually done, dates and etc, just like on a resume, and then wrote a paragraph stringing them together. Then edited that down to its most minimal distillation. Then put it in a drawer for two weeks and edited it again.

The second was that I had to know what I wanted to tell people- not my "gimmicK" or "hook" exactly, but sort of that. What was my message? That one took some time, too.

Then it was just a matter of welding the two together in some kind of coherent manner.

All of this is very good for me, btw, because I've got to do similar this year- get my website finished [it's half-arsed right now], get organized w/ my materials and so forth, and write a new bio [the old one is so outdated it's not even the same person].

That, and finish this house, which is a whole other thing...

Thanks, Fmeh, for putting it out there to jiggle my intention-list. [by the way, I call them "intentions", not "resolutions", because intention is key to all of it imo.]

[Love]

None. Anything which requires a new years resolution to get around to doing isn't going to last the everyday grind.

Oh, and get a new job.

[Eli]

My resolution for the new year is going to be 1024 x 768.
I doubt I will be able to stick with it though...

[Phoenix Psaltery]

Get the hardware that I need (new sound card, decent mic, keyboard) to start recording again.

P2

[Beezle Warburton]

To be nicer to Gabe.

[GradyE]

To be nastier to Gabe. :)

[Kavik Brock]

Get back to school to finish my degree.
Look into a different housing solution; our current house is kind of killing us financially.

[Trout]

I need to lose some weight and some debt. My focus this year will be to reduce both of those things to safer, healthier levels.

[Sally Rosebud]

Figure out what I want to do so I can go back to school.

I guess we are cutting out sugary drinks as well.

Train the cats to use the toilet! :lol:

Try to get out of the house more on my days off.

[Cocoanut Koala]

I was thinking, "To stay alive," but then I thought about how the rest of my New Year's Resolutions have usually gone, and decided I'd better not resolve that.

:coco:

[Chelle Hawker]

my new years resolutions:

I am going to continue to be a bitch
I am going to eat more chocolate

[Myth]

Clean my home office and lose 20 lbs.

[Lum]

* start a workout regimen (my previous one collapsed when I got laid off)
* keep my home office cleaner
* start implementing my facebook game

[Kaimi Kyomoon]

Great thread. I wish you all success. Personally I pretty much have to set my goals minute to minute. I'm trying to make myself vacuum right now.

[Elora Lunasea]

I'm not into make resolutions. Never have. "What shall be will be if meant to be; and won't stress myself out if not" way of thinking.

[Phoenix Psaltery]

* start a workout regimen (my previous one collapsed when I got laid off)
* keep my home office cleaner
* start implementing my facebook game

You have a home office cleaner? Does she look like this?

http://www.sexyhousecleaners.com/sexy_maid-logo.jpg

Mulch told me about one of those services once but Sans just tells me to clean up my own damn mess.

P2

[Zorena]

I generally never make any. The time to change is when you understand a change is needed.
However. I finally threw out all my t-shirts with holes in them. Some of those were very dear to me (my really old red dwarf t and my black adder one especially). So long old friends. :(

[Kaimi Kyomoon]

I hate throwing out old tee-shirts. I've found that turning them into cleaning rags is easier than just putting them into the trash.

[Zorena]

I hate throwing out old tee-shirts. I've found that turning them into cleaning rags is easier than just putting them into the trash.

They went into a recycle pile. There's someone here that does stuff with old clothing depending on if it's cotton, wool , synthetic, etc.

I have more then enough "rags" made from old socks and they work better. ^.^

[Kaimi Kyomoon]

They went into a recycle pile. There's someone here that does stuff with old clothing depending on if it's cotton, wool , synthetic, etc.

I have more then enough "rags" made from old socks and they work better. ^.^Sounds like you did the right thing.

[Troy Vogel]

I think I am going to tier down to a homestead from a full sim... I just can not stomach the lost money.... the setup fee from one to the other....

But I think the state of the economy requires me to do so...

So get my wits together and tier down and scale down and reduce financial exposure in 2010, that's my resolution.

[Vaelissa Cortes]

I never make one, you don't need a new year to do something you want to do.

I find that most people just make them to feel better about goals they won't accomplish.

[GradyE]

I haven't made any yet, but I figure I still have 357 days to come up with something. :shrug:

[Kristian]

Write a novel (probably do NaNoWriMo to do this)
Get out of debt (at least to corporations. I'll be deep in debt to someone else, but my soul wasn't being used anyway. ;)
Write a game.
Get a divorce.

[Jen]

Write a novel (probably do NaNoWriMo to do this)
Get out of debt (at least to corporations. I'll be deep in debt to someone else, but my soul wasn't being used anyway. ;)
Write a game.
Get a divorce.

Seems to me if you combine 1 and 3, they'll help you to accomplish 2 and 4. :D

[KJ Michigan]

Personally I dont make them because they always ended up broken anyway!

[Troy Vogel]

I already failed my new years resolution. I am keeping my island. LOL

uh oh... time to restart the 12 steps.

[Sansarya]

I refuse to admit fail, so I've made a concession that thinking about writing is actually writing as long as you go back and write what you were thinking about since thinking is one of the steps in pre-writing :)

[Ursula Cinquetti]

I refuse to admit fail, so I've made a concession that thinking about writing is actually writing as long as you go back and write what you were thinking about since thinking it's one of the steps in pre-writing

Yes, I have a couple students who tell me that they are THINKING about writing EVERY DAY.

[Ursula Cinquetti]

Oh, I was going to add a resolution I made yesterday: Throw something away every day.

[Jen]

Ursula, that is something I've been doing too- not a formal intention, but a necessity of life. Mazeltov.

[Kaimi Kyomoon]

Yes, I have a couple students who tell me that they are THINKING about writing EVERY DAY.Come to think of it, I've been thinking about writing most of my life.



Oh, I was going to add a resolution I made yesterday: Throw something away every day.What a great resolution! there's so much to choose from at my house.

[Jorus]

Quit guzzling soda. So far so good, I'm only allowed to have them at restaurants.

[Jen]

Something to remember when getting rid of old tshirts- cut up into squares, soak in vinegar, run thru dryer. Voila: you have natural home-made Endust rags- they attract the stuff like a magnet.

Something the Old People taught me when I was a young whippersnapper like Mero. :P

[Troy Vogel]

if you soak them in vinegar, then use the dryer.. how does your dryer smell afterwards?

just curious....

[Forest]

Vinagar, which has a strong smell itself, is actually a good deodorant and cleaner. I'm sure there is a scientific reason for it but I don't know it and it does work. :shrug:

[Jen]

Vinegar is a strongly acid substance. It was the main household cleaning agent for many housewives up until companies started making other things to use- and it still is handy to have around for all kinds of things.

http://www.angelfire.com/cantina/homemaking/vinegar.html

So is peroxide, according to some.

[Forest]

It's also used in cooking like my Almost no-kneed bread (http://www.secondcitizen.net/Forum/showthread.php?t=3956) :D