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Jimmy the Squid:
So I guess now that Christmas is over and we're coming up to yet another year it's time to start talking about New Years Resolutions. Did you make resolutions last year? Did you keep them? Will you do it again?

I made a few resolutions last year and I think I did OK with them.
2011
1) Figure out what I want to do with my life and get started on doing it. It might be opening up that comic shop I've been talking about or going back to uni. Either way I'm sick of being completely at a loss of where my life is going at 24 years old.
Done! I went back to uni, got really good marks and have lined up a job with a social work agency helping people who are on outpatient care.
2) Continue to lose weight and get fit or whatever.
Kind of done! I joined a new gym and have increased my strength and fitness levels but I'm still pretty overweight and unfit.
3) Quit smoking.
Done. Quit smoking in March and I've never looked back oh yeah.
4) Get my band's album recorded and released.
Nope! Failed. We just haven't been organised enough to do this.
5) Learn Mandarin (again).
Complete failure. Not only did I make no attempt to even look into this, I forgot this resolution as soon as I got into uni at the beginning of the year.

Imma call that 3/5 so I think I did pretty well for the second year I've actually made any resolutions at all.

2012
1. Get working in the mental health field.
2. Get accepted into a Masters of Clinical Psychology course
3. Keep going to the gym three times a week but actually lose weight - this means focusing on my diet. Eat less, eat well. Get healthy.
4. Record an album or EP or fucking something, god!
5. Finish my sleeves.
6. Get to work on more tattoos - either my back (Legend of Zelda), leg-sleeves (Batman), or if I lose enough weight and get a more or less flat tummy, a big dead tree running up my stomach and chest.

Oh hey, here is a link to the last New Years Resolutions thread if you need a reminder of how badly you failed to live up to your expectations this year. Not many people from back then still wander this part of the internet but maybe.

DrPhibes:
I didn't have any new years resolutions last year and I won't bother with them this year. I don't go into 2012 with a set of thing I need to have done.
On the other hand, I will work on the following:

- Finally get my drivers licence (im 22, keep in mind i live in the Netherlands)
- Eat less pizza's and cook more healthy dinners
- Get a GF  :|

valley_parade:
The only one I posted on PJ:

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Carl-E:
I don't make resolutions.  That being said,

1.  Visit my parents.  I let it slip for two years now (!). 
2.  Be a better teacher, more responsive to my students.  Mainly, just get grades done on time. 
3.  Keep in contact with friends more. 
4.  Sing more.  Maybe join another choir. 
5.  Start working out for real, and watch what I eat so I can lose a little weight and be kinder to my knees. 
6.  Drink a little more.  I get one, maybe two beers every month or so.  I need to relax more often.  Maybe go back to the weekly poker game. 

I know, 5 and 6 are in direct conflict...   :-P

LTK:

--- Quote from: DrPhibes on 29 Dec 2011, 08:23 ---I didn't have any new years resolutions last year and I won't bother with them this year. I don't go into 2012 with a set of thing I need to have done.
On the other hand, I will work on the following:

- Finally get my drivers licence (im 22, keep in mind i live in the Netherlands)
- Eat less pizza's and cook more healthy dinners
- Get a GF  :|

--- End quote ---
I actually resolved not to do the first. Between contributing to traffic congestion, pollution, and spending a lot of money on everything related to cars, I'm much more comfortable without. The train and the bike serve me just fine.

As for last year, I remember making some resolutions for a nonspecific time interval, one of which was to get out of my comfort zone more, and become more social. I've since moved out of my parents' house, so I guess I can check off that first one. I think I've become more comfortable being social as well, even though I'd still rather be home than at a bar or club or somesuch.

Following that, I resolved that I would disregard some pointless evolutionary drives and expectations of society regarding what constitutes a succesful person. That's why Phibes' number 3 is not in my resolutions. That's not to say I won't try to meet these expectations (I'm only human, after all) but that I won't beat myself up for failing to meet them. I will try not to be a billion years of evolution's bitch, so to say.

Come to think of it, those things may be completely contrary to each other. Well, I did a lot of thinking in the previous year, so some existential conflict is to be expected. Future resolutions will be made after that's resolved.

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