Your New Year's Resolutions

[Miss Misery]

Here are mine:

Keep working out at least 5 days a week
Lose the last 15-20 pounds (I've lost 10 pound so far)
Eat more fruits and veggies
Cut down on sugar
Pay off my credit card
Start the novel I've been planning to write for the last six months

 

[Lisbeth]

Mine are the same, except I probably don't have the time to work out 5 days a week.  Maybe 4, counting the weekends. 

[Yarnspinner]

Maybe if I post 'em out where other people can see'em, I'll keep 'em longer...

Actually, my best friend is holding my list to hold me to it, but I think she let Nicoletta peek at it.

Here goes..

I'm on a keep it simple campaign to clear out the clutter: physically, mentally and emotionally.  To that end:

1) Make yoga, meditation and prayer a regular part of my schedule instead of hit or miss stuff.

2) Get control of my weight before the excess robs me of my health and energy

3) Learn to think twice before saying "Yes" to every invitation that comes down the pike, robbing me of quiet time.

4) Get more sleep..in other words, shutting the computer off early and going to bed 

5) Use the extra time I have to finish all loose end projects: crafts I started, the novel I've been rewriting for six months without finishing....)

6) To approach everything with a more positive attitude.

Okay, who else is out there?

[StaciNadia]

1)  To draw more.

2)  To not be lazy and procrastinate and spend all my non-working, non-going-out time on the internet.

3)  To get married!  (wedding's July 1)

4)  To play my ginormous backlog of video games... 

5)  Continue losing weight!  (lost 18 pounds so far, about 30 more to go)

6)  To not procrastinate in responding to e-mail (I still have some from early this year!   )

The e-mail one and the drawing one I make nearly every year....   

[Sandi Papaya]

1) Lose weight and get in better shape.

2) Rid myself of all my excess junk: physical, mental and material.

3) Keep on top of (important) birthdays and other gift-giving occasions a bit better.

4) Get off the computer a bit more often. (which might help with the losing-weight bit).

5) Keep a cleaner house. Or at least help my mom out more in doing so.

6) Get into a waaaaaaaay better relationship than the one I had with my ex, which was good when it was good - but when it got bad, it got ugly.

[Cupcake Fiend]

To eat better and get in better shape.  I don't care so much about the number on the scale or the size on the tag, but I would like to be healthier overall.

To get organized.  Clear out the excess clutter in my life and home, so that I know what I have and where it is.  I'm not letting myself buy anything new (except a few needed articles of clothing) until I get what I have under control.  OK, maybe I'll let mysef buy some storage bins so I can put away what needs putting away!!

To get my oral health taken care of.  I need a lot of work done on my teeth & jaw that I've been putting off out of fear for several years. 

To learn to do what needs doing before what I want to do.  This means cleaning comes before reading or TV.  No more thinking "I'll put those clothes away in the morning".  Nuh-uh.  Gotta be done NOW.

To learn to be happy with the good things in my life and to stop obsessing over the not-so-good things.  To count my blessings instead of my failings.  To realize that I am human, I make mistakes, and I can forgive myself for them and move on.  And that I am not responsible for other people's feelings.

To see the King Tut (I can't spell his full name) exhibit while it is at the Franklin Institute.

To move to a new house.  I haven't talked DH into this one yet, but I'm working on it.

[Clara Bow]

The same as every year: Love my family a little more, do things to make the world a better place for others and get enough rest. And keep making my son smile...but that's really easy!

[cnada]

Mine are:
 1. Get my blue belt.
 2. Break a board without breaking my hand.
 3. Get more aggressive.
 4. Get better grades in school.
 5. Find a job, cuz-- I need money!

[Morty'sCleaningLady]

Mine are so boring:

Maintain weight (lost 40 lbs last year)
Exercise 3x a week
Write a will
Maintain a 3 months savings reserve
Pay off debt
Purchase new car (well, new to me)
Complete bathroom remodel that I started last January
Replace dishwasher

[cnada]

Mine are so boring:

Maintain weight (lost 40 lbs last year)
Exercise 3x a week
Write a will
Maintain a 3 months savings reserve
Pay off debt
Purchase new car (well, new to me)
Complete bathroom remodel that I started last January
Replace dishwasher

I don't think your's are boring.   

[Musicwoman]

MrsBart, making a will is INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT!!!

My husband died very suddenly at the age of 34.  His affairs were pretty uncomplicated; we were legally married and living together at the time, he had not been married before and had no children aside from the two we had together.  Most of our property (house, bank accounts etc) was in joint names.  He left a professionally drawn up, valid will.

When I rang up to arrange things like changing the insurance and the electricity account from his name to mine, the first question was always "Did he have a will?".  Always asked with a tension in the voice, the CSR was obviously bracing themselves.  I replied "yes he did", they let out a sigh of relief and said "well, that makes things very easy".  Leaving a will makes it easier for your survivors to alter the electricity account?  Apparently it does. 

My in-laws were funeral directors and had more stories than I cared to hear about people whose survivors were grossly disadvantaged by the lack of a will.  A particularly dangerous situation is if someone has married, separated from their spouse but never legally divorced them.  If you die without a will in such a situation, your estranged spouse is your legal next-of-kin.  Your blood family or defacto partner would have to wage a court battle to prevent said spouse walking away with your assets.  Same-sex couples have no legal rights at all (under Australian law) if one dies intestate.

Sorry, MrsBart.  This is my soapbox.  Getting off it now.  But please, please, please keep that particular NYR.   

[Alida]

1. Finish losing weight - I put a few pounds BACK on this holiday season and ugh.  Just ugh.

2. Earn my 2nd gup belt (for us, that's high-red)

3. Meditate more often.

4. Control my knee-jerk responses to things

5. Find enough attendees for Daranacon that we're not out a ton of money

6. Finish all my web projects by the end of the first week of January

7. Spend more time with my family

[blue2000]

To paint more.
To grumble less, and stand up for myself more.
To spend less, and enjoy what I have more.
To get organised.

That's what I resolve to do about every other month, lol!
I'll have to see if I can think up some new ones for New Year's.

[kckgirl]

The good news: I seem to have pretty good control of my blood sugar. My doctor informed me yesterday that my A1C number was down, and very good.

The bad news: I still don't eat properly and exercise like I should.

My resolution: Work on the bad news.

[HogwartsAlum]

Mine are something like this:

1. To eat better and get more exercise and lose about 50 annoying lbs!

2. To quit smoking!

Both of which will improve my skating, I'm sure!

3. To start writing again. 

4. Get the house painted this year (on the inside).

5. Get the stupid backyard fixed up.  (I tried to make ground-level flowerbeds, but the Bermuda grass took them over.  I'm making raised beds this year.)