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ummmkay:
i didn't post in last year's thread and i have no idea what my resolutions were! i will assume that i succeeded fantastically.

for 2011 i would like to
a) save more money! i am incredibly lucky to have graduated from college, own my own car, and have a good-paying job with absolutely no debt. i'd like to keep things that way! financial security is a really big deal to me so i want to save as much as i can while i am still young and don't have anyone else to be responsible for financially.
b) maybe occasionally get off my fat ass and do something that could remotely be considered exercise! i work in an office/corporate-type job and i work a LOT of hours, so when i get home after working an 11-12 hour day all i want to do is watch netflix and go to bed. i am not really getting fat (yet) but i am certainly maintaining my flab.
c) stop wasting so much time on the internet. do things! play the piano that i got for free that's gathering dust in the living room! read the books that are stacked in towering piles that i haven't gotten around to yet! go outside!
d) visit friends who have moved far away. this is my first year out of college and it hasn't been as difficult as it's made out to be, but it's definitely an adjustment, having to get used to my friends living three states away instead of three minutes.

here's to a new decade!

(edit: dang it shut up NEW DECADE HOORAY)

Lunchbox:
Yay! Being on a forum makes last year's so much easier to remember. Man, I really dropped the chain this year, last year I did so well!

For 2010:
- Re-learn how to ride a bike without being terrified
Um, not really. I mean, I rode it to a place once, maybe twice, still terrified. I think it is because the bike is so old and broken.

- Continue fixing up my rusty ol' vintage bike so that it's awesome
Yeah I didn't do anything aside from put on a flowery seat cover. But I did buy a bike helmet!

- Be the best girlfriend I possibly can
I guess I have? I am still with the same guy, so.... win?

- Have some fantastic roadtrips and weekends away
I think we did this. We stayed in hotels three times so I guess that counts as an actual trip. One of those times we went there in a plane so it doesn't really count as a roadtrip.

- Do a lot of decorating and furniture/house restorations/awesomefying
Hm, I guess I did. I painted a few things and went to Ikea and moved into a sweet old house that I adored because it was falling apart and everyone in it was unimaginably awesome. But then The Shittest Thing In 2010 happened and the rest of us split up and Nick and I had to move to a house that I dislike.

- Have a nice 25th Birthday and an actual party where maybe people will come
Oh hey, I did this! It was fun, I think. People actually came, which is amazing.

- Make better friends of the people I already know and love
I guess I didn't work very hard on this. I am a hermit at heart and I have turned down so many invitations.

- Spend less money on junk, and consequently pay off my credit card debt and try to get some form of savings together
I didn't do this either because my laptops both died and I needed to take out a loan to buy a new computer. I have consolidated all my debt though and should have it paid off by 2013 at the latest.... eesh.

- Get another promotion
I can't remember if I did or not. I think I did? Was that in 2010? I think so. I'm now Production Coordinator rather than Production Assistant/Office Bitch (even though I am still really Office Bitch) and I make 5k a year more. Woo!

This year I also sacked up and spent a bunch of money on doctors and specialists and tests and stupid diets to sort of my health and stomach problems once and for all, after suffering for ten years on and off. After many months I am now pretty excellent and only need to take pro-biotic capsules every day or so, and have Vitamin B injections every month. I also haven't had a cold or virus or anything since I have been healthy, when previously I would catch something new every few weeks.

So anyway. I don't really know what to do this year. Maybe...

- Keep my job, that would be great (I have been slacking off)
- Move out with Max to a sweet sweet new place
- Either sack up and fix my bike properly or save up for a new one
- Keep growing my hair even though it shits me constantly, I really want to see how it looks long
- Learn to sew better, maybe make some clothes
- Stop buying so much crap and learn how to buy food properly. Buy from the greengrocer rather than the supermarket.
- Learning how to make more than like, 5 dishes would be helpful too. Also take lunch to work more often.
- Walk and cycle more places instead of carring or bussing. (This will depend on where we move though.)
- Make my blog decent, try to blog several times a week
- Maintain my weight since I'm actually putting it on now that I'm healthy
- Save. Some. Money. (This will never happen.)

celticgeek:
Although I have not posted any New Year's Resolutions in this forum
before, they have tended to be the same every year:

Lose weight and eat healthier
Exercise more
Play the guitar more
Stop smoking.

Every year, I start out doing fairly well, but then things kind of
go to pot.  I lose weight, then gain it all back,
I start exercising, then it sort of slows down and stops,
I start playing the guitar more, and then sort of stop,
and I quit smoking, only to start up again (this happens several
time a year, most years).

However, this past year, due to some crappy blood test results, and
some snarky comments from my kindly old physician (actually she is my
kindly young physician - all old physicians my age have already retired)
I have been doing pretty well for the last six months; partly, I figure
this is due to eating healthier and partly due to exercising more
consistently.  I have lost a bunch of weight (and am keeping it off at
this point), I have been  exercising pretty regularly (stationary bicycle,
albeit with relatively low resistance), and I am playing the guitar more
regularly.  However, at this point in time, I am still smoking, although
I will probably quit again after the new year. 

Good luck with your New Year's (and New Decade's) Resolutions.

Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh! 

est:
Ok so


--- Quote from: me last year ---MMX:
- Keep this job, do it well, aim for it to turn into permanent position after the 6 mth contract finishes up.
- Finish writing something.  Anything.  A short story, complete game idea/dialogue, a song, whatever.  Just finish something!
- Try to learn how to not haemorrhage so much money all the got-dang time.
- Go to either Japan or the US with Han.  Maybe both if possible.
--- End quote ---

I failed pretty much everything bar #1, but that one is pretty important, I guess?

New ones:
- FINISH WRITING SOMETHING
- run more often, goal of being able to run solidly for half to a full hour (ie: run home directly from work)
- swear less

Elizzybeth:
I really only have a couple of very general resolutions for the next year (get into a PhD program, eat/live/exercise healthier), but I like the idea of making a decade-long set of resolutions.  Ten years from today, I will be 30 years old, and by then I hope to:

- Get a doctorate
- Be close to getting tenure (or at least be in a secure academic job)
- Be published academically, and maybe poetry-wise, too
- Have and/or adopt kids
- Either be in a secure LTR or be married (either is cool)
- Have been back to Europe
- Purchase a house
- Not be fat... between the ages of 20 and 30, my dad gained like 100 lbs.  I do not want to do that.  So I resolve to maintain healthy habits.

Happy end of the old year, guys!

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