New Years Resolutions?

[crucify]

the resolution is 1280x1024! joking
Read more and buy a big screen reader

[pshrynk]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

It's certainly something we do in the UK.

It's also traditional to have broken most of them by mid March, except the one about joining the gymn, which is usually broken by mid february

And despite the cynicism there, I do make new year's resolutions, on, um, the day after winter solstice (for personal reasons mostly related to the days getting longer again)

Mine are to carry on losing weight, finally get to the bottom of my hormone problems, manage my money better, and do more sewing and jewellery making

Just don't get to be un-Cuddly!

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by UncleDuke

i never keep my resolutions so maybe this will work

1. smoke more
2. eat more doughnuts, glazed doughnuts please
3. read less
4. post fewer times on mobileread
5. stay alone all year, if zelda only lived here in santa monica
6. never clean the house

Originally Posted by UncleDuke

i forgot these

7. drink more beer
8. avoid diet anything
9. lower my reading standards, read more dr. dribb's pulp and less of patricia's classics
10. only give karma at gunpoint

you know, even i should be able to keep those resolutions. do you mind if i copy them, uncle duke ? (sorry i don't live in santa monica, by the way. )

Originally Posted by crucify

the resolution is 1280x1024!

[GeoffC]

i'll cheat on this one, and let you know at the end of December 2009

[Greg Anos]

On my 2009 list...

1. Get a job.
2. Do scads of yardwork....(Fertilize all the roses, weed, transplant the cannas and criniums, plant new roses, ect...)
3. Put away the Christmas tree (it sometimes takes until Feb before I get around to it...)
4. Scan 7 PD works...(6 Western History, and one bad S/F from 1919)
5. Steam clean the carpets.
6. Write a new Red adventure.
7. Clean and organize the garage..(an every 5 year project.)
8. Keep on top of the mail.
9. Diet....(Hah!)
10. Bung down the last of the VHS home recordings to DVD/hard drive.

And finally...Sun myself on a rock like a lizard once it hit 28 C!!!!!

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

On my 2009 list...

1. Get a job.
2. Do scads of yardwork....(Fertilize all the roses, weed, transplant the cannas and criniums, plant new roses, ect...)
3. Put away the Christmas tree (it sometimes takes until Feb before I get around to it...)
4. Scan 7 PD works...(6 Western History, and one bad S/F from 1919)
5. Steam clean the carpets.
6. Write a new Red adventure.
7. Clean and organize the garage..(an every 5 year project.)
8. Keep on top of the mail.
9. Diet....(Hah!)
10. Bung down the last of the VHS home recordings to DVD/hard drive.

And finally...Sun myself on a rock like a lizard once it hit 28 C!!!!!

yay !!!!!!

good luck with the other ones. particularly getting a job ; i hope you manage that one very soon.

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

Keeping my list simple this year, I only have 3 items on it:

1. Keep my job!
2. Update the SJB, and spend some money on more aggressive promotion
3. Get healthier.

I should probably add "Improve my writing," but I'll be lucky if I manage the other resolutions...

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Originally Posted by pshrynk

Just don't get to be un-Cuddly!

The yeti has made it clear he likes cuddly

Besides, I don't know how to change my username here, so it's easier to remain cuddly

[BookishDreamer]

My goal for the year is to put all of my digital photos on an external hard drive and upload them to an online photo storage site. Right now, the photos are on 2 computers, several regular and mini CDs, and SD cards.

Dreamer

[pshrynk]

#1 Lose weight
#2 Either get a better job description for being Dept Chair, or let someone else do it.
#3 Organize my e-book files

[slayda]

Many years ago I made a New Year's resolution that I've stuck to very faithfully. That was "To never make another New Year's resolution".

[lilac_jive]

Originally Posted by slayda

Many years ago I made a New Year's resolution that I've stuck to very faithfully. That was "To never make another New Year's resolution".

But the question is, have you stuck to it?

:giggle:

[Elsi]

Originally Posted by lilac_jive

In December I read 16 books! Some were really short (like Pit and the Pendulum), but hey, it counts! So I think I can read 10 a month.

I regularly read around 9-10 books per month. Whenever we take a long trip in the car, I'll typically read more books. (It's a combination of not having to work and being away from the Internet.) So far, I've read 15 books in December and I expect to finish one or two more before midnight on New Year's Eve. In addition to the length of the book, there's also the "readability" factor. Some books are just easier to breeze right through than others, even if they're relatively long in terms of number of pages or number of words. I rarely read short stories, though I've read two science fiction short story collections this year.

[montsnmags]

I don't generally do resolutions - if I want to feel disappointed in myself I'll just ring my mother.

However, choked out of me like wringing out a wet towel, I'll put in:

1. Read more
2. Write more
3. Relax
4. Get Adrian and Brian Jr. jobs in a travelling circus, have them lose their way in Sydney selling their bodies at "the wall" to bad and sad men passing by in big german cars and forgetting all about it in a drug-farked haze on a dance floor at 3am somewhere on the Golden Mile, see them drop in and out of love with a 130kg bear showing more skin than leather and who "treats them right" especially after the "safe word" is uttered, then find salvation and inspiration in a drunken antipodwiccan preacher-bettong who holds church under the railway viaduct at Woolloomooloo, start a punk rock cover band called The Zany Carters which fails to ever find a paying gig (or at least one that pays in more than "open bar" terms), collect multiple addictions with matching sores, kill a drug-dealer's standover man with bike chains and daisies and frame the dealer for it, escape prosecution by hiding away in the undercarriage of the Indian Pacific train and fall from it into solitary madness mid-Nullarbor, get consumed by a Dreamtime itself gone insane and clawing its way in at the edges, get spit out ("spit", if they're lucky) and washed up on a Sunshine Coast beach clean and mean but still keen, and then get them each to sell their story to me for a clean towel and a glass and twirly straw full of the good stuff, and finally join me in the spa to brainstorm about what to do tomorrow.
5. Lose some weight

Item 4 will be easy, but we'll see how the rest go.

Cheers,
Marc

[desertgrandma]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

I don't generally do resolutions - if I want to feel disappointed in myself I'll just ring my mother.

However, choked out of me like wringing out a wet towel, I'll put in:

1. Read more
2. Write more
3. Relax
4. Get Adrian and Brian Jr. jobs in a travelling circus, have them lose their way in Sydney selling their bodies at "the wall" to bad and sad men passing by in big german cars and forgetting all about it in a drug-farked haze on a dance floor at 3am somewhere on the Golden Mile, see them drop in and out of love with a 130kg bear showing more skin than leather and who "treats them right" especially after the "safe word" is uttered, then find salvation and inspiration in a drunken antipodwiccan preacher-bettong who holds church under the railway viaduct at Woolloomooloo, start a punk rock cover band called The Zany Carters which fails to ever find a paying gig (or at least one that pays in more than "open bar" terms), collect multiple addictions with matching sores, kill a drug-dealer's standover man with bike chains and daisies and frame the dealer for it, escape prosecution by hiding away in the undercarriage of the Indian Pacific train and fall from it into solitary madness mid-Nullarbor, get consumed by a Dreamtime itself gone insane and clawing its way in at the edges, get spit out ("spit", if they're lucky) and washed up on a Sunshine Coast beach clean and mean but still keen, and then get them each to sell their story to me for a clean towel and a glass and twirly straw full of the good stuff, and finally join me in the spa to brainstorm about what to do tomorrow.
5. Lose some weight

Item 4 will be easy, but we'll see how the rest go.

Cheers,
Marc

And good morning to YOU!