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[imaginary friend]

I'm going to bake more.

 

[N.U.]

I don't make New year's resolutions.

[Astica]

Haha, I should try to bake less.

I'm also going to work harder at Uni (I'll have to, my undergraduate average would make for third class honours :S )

I really want to get back into drumming, as well, but I'm not sure whether that's quite a resolution yet...

[imaginary friend]

I don't make New year's resolutions.

in other words, same resolution as last year.

[Savannah]

I will sooo buy myself a car, even if i get deep in debt, even if they distrain my ass off.

[Indja]

My list is a little long, and fairly varied, but here y'all are:

• Do better at school, as always. The idea that even when I'm pulling out all the stops, I still can't get a first is fucking annoying me. I'm sure this isn't as clever as I can be.
• Make friends with more people who Seamy doesn't know. I need more friends xD
• Read more comics. They're awesome, don't know why I don't do them more.
• Save some money, and go on holiday abroad without my family. I have a passport, and friends in Europe - no reason why I shouldn't be completely capable of this. It's my own fear, laziness and procrastination that's putting it off, and that is not acceptable.
• I'd like to get strong. I don't mind the size or shape that I am, but I'd like to be stronger. Not like a muscle woman, but just have something to me that isn't essentially dough xD
• Introduce Seamy to my family. Face to face! He's a top fella and I want them to know that
• I want to play at least once in public in Belfast. Just one open-mic night. Like the travelling one, there's nothing in the way but my own self and my contradictions, and I'm getting a bit sick of being a complete tit.
• Write something. A story, not an essay xD Don't care how long it is or how good it is, but I want to write a complete story instead of having them rattling round in my head all the time.

[slyvia k]

graduating from college

AND

not cutting my hair on my own...i always make disasters 

[JohnnyDBBUK]

invent hover-board
invent arc reactor
become with Iron Man or Marty McFly overnight.

[CeeGBee]

invent hover-board
invent arc reactor
become with Iron Man or Marty McFly overnight.

While you're at it, can you do something about the jet-pack that I was assured
would be generally-available ten years ago?  Thanksmuch!

[Indja]

^I love the third one xD

As for sewing your own clothes, I've wanted to do that for bloody ages but never quite get round to it. Do you make things already?

[Pandora]

I do already make stuff, but I hardly ever finish them. I made two costumes and a dress, and I have an unfinished skirt, an unfinished costume and fabrics for a top and another skirt and a dress or something. So really that should be my new years resolution: Finish all the stuff I've started.

[Astica]

^Actually, me too. Definitely finish all the stuff I've started.
I also found out we have a circus trust in my town that has lessons on a whole lot of things. I'd have to save for a while before I could take the classes, but they teach Aerial Silk things! Might have to get into that. Of course, I'd have to work myself into a level of fitness where I could actually pull myself up the fabric first, but they can apparently help with that, too 

[murmur]

Making resolutions makes no sense to me at all.

All the "new year" is, is a restart of the calendar. derpin.

[RiverVox]

Glitter
Floss
Salad
Yoga
Books

[SeeAnne]

I love that glitter is on the top of your list.


Mine is somewhat similar to Indja's.

The List

• Get driver's license once and for all (or at least get to a G2 - this is where I can drive on my own, the G is where I've completed the license)
• Get better grades (I ended last semester with a borderline fail GPA, but then I calculated my percentage average and it was a 78% so I don't know)
• Write more music (scores, songs, arrangements, etc)
• Love more.
• Get back into shape and get back down to the weight I was at before working at a fast food restaurant.
• Save money now that I have no job
• Find somewhere to play my music outside of the house (I wanted to set up a show in the summer but it never happened)
• Cry more
• Get back into yoga
• Stay healthy
• Forgive more

There's more. But... this shall do for now.

[imaginary friend]

Glitter
Floss
Salad
Yoga
Books

sounds like a band name. 

[Indja]

Mine is somewhat similar to Indja's.

Because I'm awesome I liked your list, especially "Cry more". Crying is good for you, when done in a cathartic and honestly emotional way rather than a self-pitying sort of way.


Yoga seems popular. I tried it a while ago, just the first lot (sun salutations?) and realised how hopelessly unfit and weak. It's really rather sad. How easy is it to do on your own? I can't afford a class and I don't really want the embarrassment of having to work out in front of people.

[CeeGBee]

Mine is somewhat similar to Indja's.

Because I'm awesome I liked your list, especially "Cry more". Crying is good for you, when done in a cathartic and honestly emotional way rather than a self-pitying sort of way.


Yoga seems popular. I tried it a while ago, just the first lot (sun salutations?) and realised how hopelessly unfit and weak. It's really rather sad. How easy is it to do on your own? I can't afford a class and I don't really want the embarrassment of having to work out in front of people.

There are VIDEOS....   

I got one from NetFlix, and it's been sitting on the counter taunting me for two weeks...   

[Indja]

Hmm. Shall consider.

[The Angel Raliel]

I am going to love and create....

[RiverVox]

Glitter
Floss
Salad
Yoga
Books

sounds like a band name. 

Ha! It does indeed. I might change the last word to BLOG. I read a lot, but don't write enough. My idea though is that reading is a very healthy thing that I do for myself that I don't want to stop.

[RiverVox]

I love that glitter is on the top of your list.


Mine is somewhat similar to Indja's.

The List

• Get driver's license once and for all (or at least get to a G2 - this is where I can drive on my own, the G is where I've completed the license)
• Get better grades (I ended last semester with a borderline fail GPA, but then I calculated my percentage average and it was a 78% so I don't know)
• Write more music (scores, songs, arrangements, etc)
• Love more.
• Get back into shape and get back down to the weight I was at before working at a fast food restaurant.
• Save money now that I have no job
• Find somewhere to play my music outside of the house (I wanted to set up a show in the summer but it never happened)
• Cry more
• Get back into yoga
• Stay healthy
• Forgive more

There's more. But... this shall do for now.

I like your list! External requirements, health, fitness, emotional balance & creativity. All good things.

I decided I would let my glam monster out of the closet this year. I'm a conservative dresser in general but I've found that a few of sequins here and there really livens up my spirits. I like to dress up a bit for shows (a thread somewhere on Shadowbox) but it hasn't bled over into my "normal" life. Until NOW!

[lentower]

Mine is somewhat similar to Indja's.

Because I'm awesome I liked your list, especially "Cry more". Crying is good for you, when done in a cathartic and honestly emotional way rather than a self-pitying sort of way.

Yoga seems popular. I tried it a while ago, just the first lot (sun salutations?) and realised how hopelessly unfit and weak. It's really rather sad. How easy is it to do on your own? I can't afford a class and I don't really want the embarrassment of having to work out in front of people.

There are VIDEOS....   

I got one from NetFlix, and it's been sitting on the counter taunting me for two weeks...   

For yoga beginners,
I suggest Peggy Cappy's videos.
Or any that have the word "Gentle" in their titles.

[CeeGBee]

Mine is somewhat similar to Indja's.

Because I'm awesome I liked your list, especially "Cry more". Crying is good for you, when done in a cathartic and honestly emotional way rather than a self-pitying sort of way.

Yoga seems popular. I tried it a while ago, just the first lot (sun salutations?) and realised how hopelessly unfit and weak. It's really rather sad. How easy is it to do on your own? I can't afford a class and I don't really want the embarrassment of having to work out in front of people.

There are VIDEOS....    

I got one from NetFlix, and it's been sitting on the counter taunting me for two weeks...  

For yoga beginners,
I suggest Peggy Cappy's videos.
Or any that have the word "Gentle" in their titles.

I've got "Basic Yoga Workout For Dummies"...

This beginners' program, hosted by yoga professional Sara Ivanhoe, offers practical techniques
that put the power of yoga at your fingertips.  This non-intimidating program explains yoga in
an easy-to-understand language.

Rated NR         1 hr.  10 min.      2001

[SeeAnne]

Mine is somewhat similar to Indja's.

Because I'm awesome I liked your list, especially "Cry more". Crying is good for you, when done in a cathartic and honestly emotional way rather than a self-pitying sort of way.

Yoga seems popular. I tried it a while ago, just the first lot (sun salutations?) and realised how hopelessly unfit and weak. It's really rather sad. How easy is it to do on your own? I can't afford a class and I don't really want the embarrassment of having to work out in front of people.

There are VIDEOS....    

I got one from NetFlix, and it's been sitting on the counter taunting me for two weeks...  

For yoga beginners,
I suggest Peggy Cappy's videos.
Or any that have the word "Gentle" in their titles.

I've got "Basic Yoga Workout For Dummies"...

This beginners' program, hosted by yoga professional Sara Ivanhoe, offers practical techniques
that put the power of yoga at your fingertips.  This non-intimidating program explains yoga in
an easy-to-understand language.

Rated NR         1 hr.  10 min.      2001

I know of this video!

Mine is somewhat similar to Indja's.

Because I'm awesome I liked your list, especially "Cry more". Crying is good for you, when done in a cathartic and honestly emotional way rather than a self-pitying sort of way.


Yoga seems popular. I tried it a while ago, just the first lot (sun salutations?) and realised how hopelessly unfit and weak. It's really rather sad. How easy is it to do on your own? I can't afford a class and I don't really want the embarrassment of having to work out in front of people.

Hey you know what? I cried today! I cried to one of my favourite scenes from the film, The Color Purple. The scene where Nettie and Celie are torn apart from each other.

As for yoga? I do it at home watching videos because classes are expensive and far away. But there are so many sexy men that attend yoga these days! And a class or two doesn't hurt, because with a class the instructor can show you, as well as help position you, into the correct pose without injuring yourself. My voice teacher is also a yoga teacher and she told me this. Small things that we do wrong in a pose can greatly affect our bodies.

Anywho.

[Astica]

I am going to love and create....

Yes. I will certainly be aiming to do a lot of both of these things. I'm doing film honours and surrounding myself with people I like, so this shall certainly be doable. I also want to meet lots of new people.

I decided I would let my glam monster out of the closet this year. I'm a conservative dresser in general but I've found that a few of sequins here and there really livens up my spirits. I like to dress up a bit for shows (a thread somewhere on Shadowbox) but it hasn't bled over into my "normal" life. Until NOW!

From Tentacles and Teacups:
"DO NOT BE AFRAID.
Worried about what your friends will think of your wet look green tights? FUCK THEM. You look like a badass frog- SO WHAT? Think your date won’t appreciate the combat boot/short dress combination? FUCK THEM. Your legs look FANTASTIC. If it makes you happy, that’s what freaking matters. People are staring? It’s because you look HOT, dahliink >"

[RiverVox]

I decided I would let my glam monster out of the closet this year. I'm a conservative dresser in general but I've found that a few of sequins here and there really livens up my spirits. I like to dress up a bit for shows (a thread somewhere on Shadowbox) but it hasn't bled over into my "normal" life. Until NOW!

From Tentacles and Teacups:
"DO NOT BE AFRAID.
Worried about what your friends will think of your wet look green tights? FUCK THEM. You look like a badass frog- SO WHAT? Think your date won’t appreciate the combat boot/short dress combination? FUCK THEM. Your legs look FANTASTIC. If it makes you happy, that’s what freaking matters. People are staring? It’s because you look HOT, dahliink >"

Wonderful. I should write this on my mirror! 

[Mister Sahara]

lets see

*be healthier
*finish BA degree (although i hate it and can't get myself motivated/think of quitting, even though i have only 4 (four!!) weeks left)
*find boy- or girlfriend who can move in with me so I don't have to pay the rent all by myself
*sing more and get better at it
*become rockstar
*die on december 21st

[Indja]

^Don't you dare die The others are crackers though. No point giving up on your BA so late in the game. My step-cousin just dropped out in the middle of his first semester of second year, so almost exactly halfway through. Total waste of time and money, can't believe he didn't just suck it up until the end.

When you're a rockstar, will you remember the little people? xD

[Mister Sahara]

yes, I will be that new kind of rockstar that is always way too grateful and grounded to be actually cool, while also a tad crazy to compensate. 

and i knooooow it makes no sense to give up now, but i don't feel that the certificate will prove anything (I have learned a lot in the past years, so not a complete waste of time and money...) and i also don't want to continue so i technically won't need it. gah.

also, i thought crackers were salty biscuits.

[Indja]

Crackers are salty biscuits, also a Christmas toy, but in this case I was using it to refer to something I consider "cracking", i.e, really cool. My apologies for the ridiculous nature of the English language xD

The certificate will prove that you can think and work at that level, nothing more. Mine won't prove anything beyond that, and I love my subject. I see exams and things as nothing more than a way of acknowledging that you've gone to the classes - like a birth certificate doesn't change the fact that you were born in a certain country to certain parents, it just provides an official recognition of that. So then it becomes a choice of what you do when you're there. Do you work the bare minimum, and focus solely on what's going to pass your exams and get you that certificate, or do you accept that not everything you learn is going to be "useful" but you might be interested in it. If you're not, the former is the obvious choice

[Mister Sahara]

thanks for explaining, the English language never ceases to amaze me

at this stage, the parts that i *am* interested in are sadly not requirements anymore, so that's where my frustration comes from... I don't even have exams left at all, only 60 pages worth of paper writing and presentations, which is more of a commitment than learning lotsa stuff by heart in a short period of time. but you are right, before i quit, i might just try to do a just enough /least effort version

[Indja]

It's better than selling yourself short and having nothing to show for all the work you *have* done. I'm pretty bored of most of my subjects, and I've got exams next week on things that I would be perfectly happy to never see again. But I know that after my BTh I can go on and do an MA on something more specific, and then a PhD to be even more specific, and then spend the rest of my life writhing in joy among a pile of books about what Jesus would think of surveillance cameras xD

[Captain Oblivious]

lets see

*be healthier
*finish BA degree (although i hate it and can't get myself motivated/think of quitting, even though i have only 4 (four!!) weeks left)
*find boy- or girlfriend who can move in with me so I don't have to pay the rent all by myself
*sing more and get better at it
*become rockstar
*die on december 21st

RE: boy or girlfriend. What's wrong with just a friend or even a stranger to move in with you?

[Mister Sahara]

lets see

*be healthier
*finish BA degree (although i hate it and can't get myself motivated/think of quitting, even though i have only 4 (four!!) weeks left)
*find boy- or girlfriend who can move in with me so I don't have to pay the rent all by myself
*sing more and get better at it
*become rockstar
*die on december 21st

RE: boy or girlfriend. What's wrong with just a friend or even a stranger to move in with you?

my apartment. i am having a "regular" housemate at the moment, and it is possible, but the rooms are concepted in an obvious couple or single person way. so if the apartment says so i'd better obey

[The Angel Raliel]

From Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchcett
http://www.harpercollins.com/author/AuthorExtra.aspx?displayType=essay&authorID=3417#.TwWycZVZtic.facebook

[Mockery]

I'm planning on working on my self control when it comes to food and money.

[CeeGBee]

For any such as might be plotting YOGA for 2012...

A co-worker is doing THIS and says she's quite enjoying it.... but it does cost money.   

[lentower]

For any such as might be plotting YOGA for 2012...

A co-worker is doing THIS and says she's quite enjoying it.... but it does cost money.  

<warning: longish len advice ON>
Most of the asanas/poses shown on that page,
are advanced and should only
be taught in class with a GOOD instructor.

Yoga can be very dangerous without an instructor who understands anatomy,
can correct your alignment, and show you how to get in and out of asanas (poses).

You are much more likely to hurt yourself:
tear a joint, break a bone, serious hurt.

You can look for a community-based course.  They are often cheaper.  

Some towns offer subsidized Yoga, as part of their Recreation or Elder Care programs.

Some health insurers give you money for fitness, and Yoga usually qualifies.

But if the instructor isn't giving feedback (even Very Good, Cee)
to each student in the class,
that isn't improving their technique, try again.

It's sufficient to see a GOOD instructor once a week, and build a home practice around DVDs/VCR tapes (many Public Libraries lend them out, so you can try a variety, before you buy (I got many of my VCR yoga tapes off of FreeCycle)), or the shows on Cable or Broadcast TV, or Internet offerings like the one Cee points out.

I STRONGLY urge you to get a yoga mat.  Worth the money.
<warning: longish len advice OFF>

PS: I do enjoy Yoga, but I enjoy what it does for the rest of my life even more.

[SeeAnne]

So far I've lived up to most of my resolutions.

I've cried plenty, lots of yoga, eating way healthier (borderline vegetarian (because of my stomach and its fucking acid), tea, reading, writing, and trying to love and forgive.

[Astica]

I'm already reconsidering mine. Definitely still working hard at uni and starting circus skill classes once I'm less broke/horribly unfit...so I suppose being more careful with money/not constantly buying yet more clothes should be a resolution

I'm thinking that my main resolutions should be creating more stuff, making people happy, not letting people make me unhappy when they shouldn't, and looking after myself/looking after my own happiness.

[absynth aura]

I never actually set any resolutions for this year.
Well, I mean, I did say that I will continue to build on everything I achieved with myself last year. But that's not really a resolution is it?
I guess, I want to be better with my money, so that I can save for a trip to Europe.
I dunno, everything else I want to do this year is pretty much stock standard.

[Indja]

I'm sticking "Stay off the smokes" on the end of mine. I was intending to anyway, but I just had a firm decision made for me. Seamy moved my stuff from his to mine in his mum's car, and literally they can only have been in there for like 5 minutes max and everything STINKS of smoke. Not nice.

[Mr. Leave Me Alone]

-Be less of a bitch.
-Be more of a bitch when certain people suggest I'm being less of a bitch for their own sake and make me feel like some kind of pushover who exists solely to make them happy. Fuck that.
-Get back into doing art again (in spite of some nasty comments that have stopped me from as much as opening a sketchbook).
-Spend more time with my little sister Olivia. And my Mum and my brothers Will, Erik and Riley. Mostly Liv though. I don't want my baby sister to not know who I am.
-Bake more cookies
-Try harder to make friends in this city. Ones who I won't need to drop because they're not very nice and actually make me feel lonelier than when I had no friends at all.
-Be braver.
-Have more money!!!!!!!

[Cirque]

-Don't be a whore
-Be yourself around your parents more, in short: Screw them (Well screw her really)

[RiverVox]

So another thing that was a vague resolution of mine was to do some theater. It's a part of my life that I dropped long ago and it's been scratching at the door to come back in. So I was asked about the parent/teacher play at my kids' school and I said, sure I'd like to participate and then I was cast and received a script and rehearsal starts Wednesday. I am a bit startled but also delighted.

The reason I am posting about this is that what worked for me on this issue was outside forces. I opened the door a crack and WHOOSH someone blew it open. I'm good about keeping commitments to other people, but not to myself. My vague wish to "do theater" turned into a part in a play in three email messages. I'm thinking about other ways to make my resolutions stick by using external motivation. If I sign up for a 12 week exercise class, I will go. That's just how I am. Which is why I don't sign up!  Anyway, good luck to you all.

[lentower]

So another thing that was a vague resolution of mine was to do some theater. It's a part of my life that I dropped long ago and it's been scratching at the door to come back in. So I was asked about the parent/teacher play at my kids' school and I said, sure I'd like to participate and then I was cast and received a script and rehearsal starts Wednesday. I am a bit startled but also delighted.

The reason I am posting about this is that what worked for me on this issue was outside forces. I opened the door a crack and WHOOSH someone blew it open. I'm good about keeping commitments to other people, but not to myself. My vague wish to "do theater" turned into a part in a play in three email messages. I'm thinking about other ways to make my resolutions stick by using external motivation. If I sign up for a 12 week exercise class, I will go. That's just how I am. Which is why I don't sign up!  Anyway, good luck to you all.

the universe often does this.
you ask for something,
and WHOOSH it's there

clear intent; clear willingness
ignites magic

[Pandora]

So far I've been doing pretty good with my resolutions. I've been eating more fruits and veggies and going out jogging to get healthy, I've rekindled my friendship with an old friend I thought I'd lost, and I've been working on making my own chainmail, which is both creative and fun. I just hope I can keep all this up.

[The Angel Raliel]

well so far my attempts at making more art have been going fine! also met some nice new people....

[Mockery]

So far so good.

I've decided that I'm only going to have one sweet thing a month. Like a cupcake or something. Already done that and the need to eat constantly seems to be dying within me. I feel kinda proud

[Pope Totalfrog]

I'm going to stop letting my sister's overwhelming negativity get to me.

[lentower]

So far so good.

I've decided that I'm only going to have one sweet thing a month. Like a cupcake or something. Already done that and the need to eat constantly seems to be dying within me. I feel kinda proud

CONGRATS!

Do you really want to have that need to eat constantly,
come back?  Even for a few hours?

[Tiervexx]

I don't really believe in new year's resolutions because I believe that if you are really serious about it you won't wait until the new year to start.

An example that is very familiar to gym rats is that every year after new years there is a flood of people on resolutions to get in shape... they stop after about a month.

[Cirque]

I don't really believe in new year's resolutions because I believe that if you are really serious about it you won't wait until the new year to start.

It's so true, I think it's just about a significant time marker. If you do stick it out you know exactly how long you've been doing it, since the start of the year.
But we rarely do stick it out. It's all about the spirit of change.

[Paul]

Mine is to be a classier gentleman and stop fucking swearing...

[Astica]

I don't really believe in new year's resolutions because I believe that if you are really serious about it you won't wait until the new year to start.

An example that is very familiar to gym rats is that every year after new years there is a flood of people on resolutions to get in shape... they stop after about a month.

I don't think it's about having an idea and then waiting for the new year to start, but rather getting to the new year, and making yourself think of something, and then, as Shane says, using the date as a marker.

[LoneWanderer]

Find love
Lose weight
Be myself
Learn to love myself
Read more

[RiverVox]

I joined a gym yesterday. Knowing that I'm paying for it will help to motivate me. Not to mention that my college reunion is coming up!

[CeeGBee]

I joined a gym yesterday. Knowing that I'm paying for it will help to motivate me. Not to mention that my college reunion is coming up!

Best of luck!  (Not that luck is required, of course...)

[Indja]

So I got super-stressed over the two weeks of exams I had, and ended up buying a pack of ten smokes to get through. Started rationalising it, and then Seamy got annoyed at me for it so I stopped and just decided that after the 10 were gone, I'd be done again. Had my last one today, so it's back on the wagon with me. I'm not being too hard on myself for it though xD Also, I went to roller derby today for the first time and it was great, so I think that'll be a combination of getting healthy and being more social. Feeling good.

[Blue Canary]

Attempt to care less about what other people think of me.

[CeeGBee]

Attempt to care less about what other people think of me.

So...
If we all think you're an intelligent, attractive, thoroughly positive person.....

....you won't let that bother you?  Good plan.

[Astica]

Find someone new to give me back massages.

[LoneWanderer]

Become a mime and learn piano

[CeeGBee]

Become a mime and learn piano

God hates mimes.... 

[LoneWanderer]

So I've heard haha

[SeeAnne]

I'm joining a gym soon!!!!!!!!!!

[The Angel Raliel]

Become a mime and learn piano

God hates mimes.... 

.....luckily the Shadowbox loves them...

[imaginary friend]

I'm going to bake more.

 

today's project: pineapple upside-down cake.

goddamn, did it come out good. 

[Indja]

I'm going to bake more.

 

today's project: pineapple upside-down cake.

goddamn, did it come out good. 

Oh my God, I forgot how much I love upside-down cake xD I'm so jealous.

[CeeGBee]

I'm going to bake more.

 

today's project: pineapple upside-down cake.

goddamn, did it come out good. 

Oh my God, I forgot how much I love upside-down cake xD I'm so jealous.

What she said....

[Astica]

I can't remember if I made a New Years resolution to eat moar biscuits, but I'm certainly sticking to it.

(but really, I keep forgetting what I decided every time I check this thread. That can't be a good thing)

[imaginary friend]

I'm going to bake more.

 

today's project: pineapple upside-down cake.

goddamn, did it come out good. 

Oh my God, I forgot how much I love upside-down cake xD I'm so jealous.

What she said....

I had another piece with breakfast. like a sweet chunk of sex in my hand.   

[Mister Sahara]

one month in.
*i've become a little healthier already (except for the chocolate/sweets overdose thing)
*i've finished all my BA courses. will start writing BA thesis now. (please cross fingers)
*i have NOT found a boy or girlfriend, which means someone else will have to move in w/me next week. FAIL!!!
*i have been singing a lot which is good, and will start band rehearsals soon 
*the dying part is not scheduled yet.

lets see

*be healthier
*finish BA degree (although i hate it and can't get myself motivated/think of quitting, even though i have only 4 (four!!) weeks left)
*find boy- or girlfriend who can move in with me so I don't have to pay the rent all by myself
*sing more and get better at it
*become rockstar
*die on december 21st

[RiverVox]

Hooray for you! Now to conquer February. 

[Mister Sahara]

 

[Astica]

Haha, I should try to bake less.

I'm also going to work harder at Uni (I'll have to, my undergraduate average would make for third class honours :S )

I really want to get back into drumming, as well, but I'm not sure whether that's quite a resolution yet...

1. Ha! Fail.
2. Succeeded, I guess. I got a 2:1, since I did pretty well in three papers and really badly in the fourth.
3. Can't afford to be a drummer, and don't have the space, but I miss it.

How did you guys do?

[Savannah]

I will sooo buy myself a car, even if i get deep in debt, even if they distrain my ass off.

I've sooo done it 

[imaginary friend]

I'm going to bake more.

 

lots more, as it turned out. 

[jtaylor]

I can't remember at all what my resolutions were, I didn't post them here since I was on hiatus from the box then. I really want to write a reflection on my year, it's been a weird year, but I feel like I have to wait another month for the year to actually be over.

Something that wasn't a resolution because I didn't decide to do it until May is I trained until I could run 5k.

[Indja]

My list is a little long, and fairly varied, but here y'all are:

• Do better at school, as always. The idea that even when I'm pulling out all the stops, I still can't get a first is fucking annoying me. I'm sure this isn't as clever as I can be.
• Make friends with more people who Seamy doesn't know. I need more friends xD
• Read more comics. They're awesome, don't know why I don't do them more.
• Save some money, and go on holiday abroad without my family. I have a passport, and friends in Europe - no reason why I shouldn't be completely capable of this. It's my own fear, laziness and procrastination that's putting it off, and that is not acceptable.
• I'd like to get strong. I don't mind the size or shape that I am, but I'd like to be stronger. Not like a muscle woman, but just have something to me that isn't essentially dough xD
• Introduce Seamy to my family. Face to face! He's a top fella and I want them to know that
• I want to play at least once in public in Belfast. Just one open-mic night. Like the travelling one, there's nothing in the way but my own self and my contradictions, and I'm getting a bit sick of being a complete tit.
• Write something. A story, not an essay xD Don't care how long it is or how good it is, but I want to write a complete story instead of having them rattling round in my head all the time.

OK, so I did better at school - still not stellar, but better than my first semester last year, which was an enormous ball of suck. I didn't get fit, broke up with Seamus so all the him-related ones went down the pan, I've not played in Belfast and I didn't go on holiday. Guh.

However, I have read more comics. So that's... good? Not especially productive though. And I haven't finished writing anything, but I have started Graceland which is cracking on marvelously, so that's nice.

[Captain Oblivious]

I really thought I posted mine here but apparently not. I don't really know what I did this year. I passed third year and started fourth year. I kept my job and made them realise I'm damn good at it. I kept my boyfriend so that's awesome. I was almost completely independent but not quite.

[Mister Sahara]

one month in.
*i've become a little healthier already (except for the chocolate/sweets overdose thing)
*i've finished all my BA courses. will start writing BA thesis now. (please cross fingers)
*i have NOT found a boy or girlfriend, which means someone else will have to move in w/me next week. FAIL!!!
*i have been singing a lot which is good, and will start band rehearsals soon 
*the dying part is not scheduled yet.

lets see

*be healthier
*finish BA degree (although i hate it and can't get myself motivated/think of quitting, even though i have only 4 (four!!) weeks left)
*find boy- or girlfriend who can move in with me so I don't have to pay the rent all by myself
*sing more and get better at it
*become rockstar
*die on december 21st

i did so well in january...and then i completely fucked it up.

(+) i'm only a tiny bit healthier.
- didn't make the deadlines for my BA programme, which was pretty bad, because it ended. i'm in a slightly different programme now and will only finish in february (only if all goes well. and the best thing is i still don't like it!)...but ahhh whatever... next year.
- i still haven't found a boy or girlfriend. another girl moved in with me. she'll stay until february, so...next year.
+ i'm taking up singing lessons in december, and i joined a chorus, so this probably counts.
- i'm not a rockstar yet. this is scheduled for after my graduation, so next year.
- i probably won't even die on dec21st because the maya never really said the world would end there, but that the world would stay the same for a lot more years.

hmm....you bring the smokes i'll bring the beer?

[RiverVox]

Glad to see people checking in! 26 days left to make some changes. As for me:

Glitter: Achieved! I started letting my personal style shine through a bit more. Had a great time dressing up for & attending GTO shows. Here I am with Miss Hayley Fiasco:



Please note the sequin tank top.

Floss - Epic fail and my dentist was mean to me. Need to find a new person & VALIUM supplier.

Salad - Not enough, but I held the line. Must switch to soup in the cold months

Yoga - Meh. Lack of time and commitment and some injuries derailed my plans. Oh Rodney Yee, I've been unfaithful.

Books/Blog - YES! Read some great books, attended author events, said hello to authors like wossname here:



and blogged on Live Journal with some regularity.

[N.U.]

I totally won. I made no resolutions and, thusly, have broken none of them.

[buttercup.]

I haven't really ever made a resolution. I think I decided to lose weight since I had already lost some, and that happened. So yay that.

[Mister Sahara]

I totally won. I made no resolutions and, thusly, have broken none of them.

seeing as it turned out really bad for me, i think i'll follow your example and make my 2013 resolution to not make a resolution.

[Captain Oblivious]

I totally won. I made no resolutions and, thusly, have broken none of them.

seeing as it turned out really bad for me, i think i'll follow your example and make my 2013 resolution to not make a resolution.

And then break it.

[Mister Sahara]

I totally won. I made no resolutions and, thusly, have broken none of them.

seeing as it turned out really bad for me, i think i'll follow your example and make my 2013 resolution to not make a resolution.

And then break it.

i'm doomed 

[sangrebloom]

I didn't make any resolutions last year, I just wished I'd be happy.  I was at least 90% successful as I'm prone to be a bit sad.

[imaginary friend]

Didn't feel like wasting bandwidth on a 2013-exclusive resolution thread, so I just changed the name of this one.

 

[absynth aura]

I'm sticking with the ones I failed at last year,

get fit, save money.
Oh, and to stick with my studies. I re-enrolled for the course I was going to start halfway through last year but didn't for various reasons. So this time I'm going to stick to it.

[Marionette26]

I never make new year's resolutions. They seem like an excuse for people to try to do something, fail, and then be angry with themselves.

If I was going to make one, I would resolve to keep on growing as I've been growing and moving forwards. Which is rather vague. 'cause being specific with myself would be stupid (because then I would probably break it).

[Astica]

I never make new year's resolutions. They seem like an excuse for people to try to do something, fail, and then be angry with themselves.

Or an excuse to motivate oneself or do things you might not otherwise?

Mine are fairly simple this year.
-Pay off credit card.
-Save some money for Europe.
-Improve sewing skills.
-Learn new skills of some kind.
-Make new friends.

[jtaylor]

My resolution is to be more awesome, which encompasses the more specific goals I have. Also more friends would be nice. There are a bunch of things I know I am going to do in 2013 that aren't really resolutions, like graduate from university and move and get a full time job.

[CeeGBee]

I never make new year's resolutions. They seem like an excuse for people to try to do something, fail, and then be angry with themselves.

Or an excuse to motivate oneself or do things you might not otherwise?

Mine are fairly simple this year.
-Pay off credit card.
-Save some money for Europe.
-Improve sewing skills.
-Learn new skills of some kind.
-Make new friends.

Resolved not to get pissy when my online friends want to visit OTHER continents
and make NEW friends....  probably stupid actual-in-person friends.....  whatevs.   




 

[Savannah]

My resolution for new year is to stop hiding in the bushes outside his window. Lol  Just kidding, but i'll really stop stalking my ex on facebook. I have to get over. I've always had this stupid hope that we might get back together, but he doesn't seem like thinking about it, so it doesn't seem like happening.

2012 has been a good year for me, lots of dreams and plans have been realized For 2013 i really don't want anything material or financial, i just want to fall in love and remain healthy

[Astica]

I never make new year's resolutions. They seem like an excuse for people to try to do something, fail, and then be angry with themselves.

Or an excuse to motivate oneself or do things you might not otherwise?

Mine are fairly simple this year.
-Pay off credit card.
-Save some money for Europe.
-Improve sewing skills.
-Learn new skills of some kind.
-Make new friends.

Resolved not to get pissy when my online friends want to visit OTHER continents
and make NEW friends....  probably stupid actual-in-person friends.....  whatevs.   




 

I want to keep my current friends, too! Also, Europe because there are more countries there to visit, and they're mostly older and more foreign to me, which makes them more exciting

[Indja]

Oooh, I love New Year's resolutions. I like leaving them somewhere and not looking at them until December - a little like this year and this thread, actually. I suppose mine will be:

-Finish 'Graceland'
-Get to the end of the year on better terms with my father than I started with
-Finish at least 5 new books that aren't anything to do with God. I know 5 sounds like hardly any, but honestly finishing books is reeeaaally hard for me. I have the attention span of a gnat.
-Um, graduate? That'd be pretty sweet xD I'd like 2:1. Can't do shit all with a 2:2. So I suppose tied in with that is "beast my exams and essays for all my modules next semester, and blow my dissy out the water".
-It'd be kind of nice to sleep with someone who isn't a) a one-night stand or b) Seamus. That'd be kind of cool.

[Marionette26]

I never make new year's resolutions. They seem like an excuse for people to try to do something, fail, and then be angry with themselves.

Or an excuse to motivate oneself or do things you might not otherwise?

Mine are fairly simple this year.
-Pay off credit card.
-Save some money for Europe.
-Improve sewing skills.
-Learn new skills of some kind.
-Make new friends.

Haha, I guess I am a bit negative. But the majority of people I know who make resolutions don't follow them, and then they beat themselves up when they don't follow them. It's a lovely cycle of unadmitted masochism. It gets frustrating.
And I know if I made the standard resolution of losing weight, or making more friends, or anything concrete I wouldn't follow it or do it. But I'm just going to have a good year again - 2012 was a wonderful year for me, compared to my past years, and I'm going to do that without doing anything concrete so I don't drag myself down by possible failure.
Most of my friends are like me - if they fail at something (and they very well might, they're like me in the procrastination and lack of motivation department as well), then it messes them up emotionally. So I think it's silly to make resolutions.

Still, if someone has the motivation and energy and werewithal to follow them, I imagine they can be a good thing.

[Cirque]

Become even more fabulous.
Like that's possible

[SeeAnne]

I'm sticking with what I did last year. I actually stuck with it, I started eating cleaner, and I exercise a lot more than ever. But I'm thinking of just going vegan and really working out now that I have a workout buddy (and lover).

I'm also going to save my monies, and help change the world, and meet new people and write more music. Probably some other stuff too but I can't think of any. Oh yeah, learn Spanish.

[Faloleen]

I love New Year's resolutions. When I make them I truly believe next year will be different and I will do everything right and this hope is lovely.
So:
- lose some weight (I know it's stupid and shallow but...)
- be nicer to everyone, especially to my parents
- graduate and go to Provence to celebrate
- read more, especially new books
- allow my husband to buy a dog (I know he really wants it and I should stop freaking out about it and make him happy
- study German harder.

[Annebelle.]

I usually don't do New Year's resolutions. I've never felt the need to do anything differently. But this coming year, I'm supposed to start "grown up life", getting a job and stuff. A few changes are ahead of me anyway, so maybe I should prepare myself for a whole new life. I'm going to make some resolutions and leave them on my computer dashboard, so I'll be confronted with them, daily.


My resolutions:

- Be more structured and disciplined. I should start planning important stuff and do it right away, instead of procrastinating everything to the very last moment.
- Do my very best for my teaching work experience. Put a lot of effort in the lesson plans and examples, preferably more than is expected of me. I do not only want to teach the students how to do stuff, I also want to teach myself.
- Stop being nervous when I have to talk to a group of people. Those high school kids will eat me alive if I don't.
- Have breakfast before 10am every day, except for Sundays.
- Eat more vegetables and drink less sodas. Get in shape a bit more.
- Clean up after myself, instead of just leaving things out.
- Draw more. So I can actually get better at it.
- Read more.
- Get a job, earn money, save money, ...
- Get my driver's licence.
- Have a bit more fun, go out a little more, be young while I still am. Say yes to people's offers a bit more.

That should be enough, really...

[Savannah]

I usually don't do New Year's resolutions. I've never felt the need to do anything differently. But this coming year, I'm supposed to start "grown up life", getting a job and stuff. A few changes are ahead of me anyway, so maybe I should prepare myself for a whole new life. I'm going to make some resolutions and leave them on my computer dashboard, so I'll be confronted with them, daily.


My resolutions:

- Be more structured and disciplined. I should start planning important stuff and do it right away, instead of procrastinating everything to the very last moment.
- Do my very best for my teaching work experience. Put a lot of effort in the lesson plans and examples, preferably more than is expected of me. I do not only want to teach the students how to do stuff, I also want to teach myself.
- Stop being nervous when I have to talk to a group of people. Those high school kids will eat me alive if I don't.
- Have breakfast before 10am every day, except for Sundays.
- Eat more vegetables and drink less sodas. Get in shape a bit more.
- Clean up after myself, instead of just leaving things out.
- Draw more. So I can actually get better at it.
- Read more.
- Get a job, earn money, save money, ...
- Get my driver's licence.
- Have a bit more fun, go out a little more, be young while I still am. Say yes to people's offers a bit more.

That should be enough, really...

That's one thing you should keep in mind after you step into the grown up life. People usually get so obsessed with their ambitions and careers that they forget how to smile and have fun.

It's sad that most of the things have to change once you graduate and start working. You don't have as much spare time as you used to have, you have to bear bigger responsibilities, etc. But if you know how to draw the line between the serious work and entertaining activities, you will have time for lots of things. Besides you'll get to earn your own money and do whatever you want to do with it 

[NikosGr]

i wish i could follow that advice more:

just keep saying yes. you're going to die anyway.

[imaginary friend]

I'm sticking with what I did last year. I actually stuck with it, I started eating cleaner, and I exercise a lot more than ever. But I'm thinking of just going vegan and really working out now that I have a workout buddy (and lover).

I'm also going to save my monies, and help change the world, and meet new people and write more music. Probably some other stuff too but I can't think of any. Oh yeah, learn Spanish.

 

[Mister Sahara]

nooooooooonnnnne.

mwhahaha.

[SeeAnne]

I love that glitter is on the top of your list.


Mine is somewhat similar to Indja's.

The List

• Get driver's license once and for all (or at least get to a G2 - this is where I can drive on my own, the G is where I've completed the license)
• Get better grades (I ended last semester with a borderline fail GPA, but then I calculated my percentage average and it was a 78% so I don't know)
• Write more music (scores, songs, arrangements, etc)
• Love more.
• Get back into shape and get back down to the weight I was at before working at a fast food restaurant.
• Save money now that I have no job
• Find somewhere to play my music outside of the house (I wanted to set up a show in the summer but it never happened)
• Cry more
• Get back into yoga
• Stay healthy
• Forgive more

There's more. But... this shall do for now.

I know I already posted in here.

I'll say that I am still driver's license-less
I've got much better grades, so very very close to the dean's honour's list!
I've written more music (I wrote a bunch of AFP scores, and my own stuff and I released an LP)
I've definitely loved more
I got back to my goal weight but gained some back over the holidays
I've kind of saved money
I busked over the summer so I was playing music, not necessarily mine, outside the house
Cried here and there
Definitely got back into yoga
Am eating way fucking cleaner than ever
I'm still working on the forgiving part.

Holy fuck, I didn't think I'd really go through with my resolutions, but I totally did! Woo!

[Astica]

I'm thinking that my main resolutions should be creating more stuff, making people happy, not letting people make me unhappy when they shouldn't, and looking after myself/looking after my own happiness.

Oh wow, I actually did do all of these things. Does this count as meeting my resolutions when they're all vague as hell?

@2013: RE-FIND PURPOSE IN LIFE. I've lost it now I've finished uni. The future is even more vague than last years resolutions.

[Blue Canary]

Eat fast food only once per week. haha

[Miranda.]

Be happy.


ok so that is super corny and cheesy but I'm so tired of trying to change things to be happy so this year I hope to learn how to be happier with things just the way they are

[Pelle]

My small list of resolutions:
- Practice piano and guitar more and more and more
- Play music with people more and more
- Perform on my own as a...singersongwriter (hate that word!)
- Make at least two new music videos
- Get accepted at a musicschool for a Master of 2 years.

[sangrebloom]

This may be better off in the TMI thread, but it is a resolution... Just have more sex.