New Year Resolutions 2010

[Adam]

I wanted to try and find a thread from last year with everyone saying they are gonna do this that and the other so you'd then feel disappointed with what you made of yourself in 2009. But I couldn't find a thread - there was one for 2008 http://beastieboys.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=84462 which also links 2007.

So anyone making any this years?

I kinda have one except that I adopted it a while ago after a conversation between Helvete and Padster had here - weird I know. And its very general. Gandhi said - be the change you want to see. And that has been my focus. Around the same time but I can't remember if before or after I joined The Green Party, so there is a start.

I dunno for 2010 tho - seriously considering getting rid of my car but I love it to bits. I did less than 2000 miles this year but I think there is too many cars on the road. I also feel guilty at the fact I have to commute a long way to work (I normally use my motorbike but I am keeping that). Its part laziness I haven't looked for a more local job or one where I can cycle to work easily. But that one saying by Gandhi is my motivation for 2010

[Rodie]

Get a career, house, adult life, etc.

[Randetica]

losing weight
getting into a "psychiatry" for a while
finding a boyfriend

[NicRN77]

eat healthy
exercise more
volunteer more

[camo]

Originally Posted by camo

- enjoy myself more (in general)
- Re-ignite my apetite for design (it's slowly fading)
- see my grandad more

Wow! I did none of them

[gbsuey]

the biggie is to sort out my life....huge.

Learn more stuff to cook,so bored with current cooking repetoire

I did volunteer with a group who arrange for you to go spend some time with old people who have no-one else in the world and just sit alone all day but they never got back in touch, so i may look into that. I mean i don't have much free time but how shit would it be to just get old and never have a soul to talk to??

Get my tattoo-can't wait for that one

See the beastie boys

[jabumbo]

2010 is the year i need to stop putting off all of my major house projects and tell all the assholes in my life to straighten up or piss off.

oh, and maybe finally get myself a raise. that would make the other items a bit easier then...

[Ty Webb]

Originally Posted by Rodie

Get a career, house, adult life, etc.

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[Echewta]

One of my resolutions is to take piano lessons. I think a single man at my age should be prepping for a life of bachlorhood. An apartment with dark colored furniture and wood flooring along with a bar filled with interesting bottles of alcohol and a quiver of appropriate glasses and me sitting at my baby grand, playing April in Paris or Clair de Lune with a bottle of bourbon and my tie undone waiting for one of my many single stewardess or art collectors to stop by for an evening of passion and hours of conversation.

[Ty Webb]

Originally Posted by Echewta

One of my resolutions is to take piano lessons. I think a single man at my age should be prepping for a life of bachlorhood. An apartment with dark colored furniture and wood flooring along with a bar filled with interesting bottles of alcohol and a quiver of appropriate glasses and me sitting at my baby grand, playing April in Paris or Clair de Lune with a bottle of bourbon and my tie undone waiting for one of my many single stewardess or art collectors to stop by for an evening of passion and hours of conversation.

i do this, except sacrifice virgins to gods of the RIFF through my Marshall stack.

[nodanaonlyzuul]

Go back to school. And I should be able to since I can pay out of pocket now, woohoo!

Also I want to keep reminding myself to sit up straight at all times. I started doing this weeks ago but I might as well tack it on to the list.

Otherwise that's it. The eating healthy/exercise thing is something I implemented on a random date instead of New Years and I find that to be much more effective. The saying that doing those things is "a lifestyle" is 100% true. Not that I've haven't cheated or anything here and there (they offer free pastries at work, I'm no saint, hehe) but still. Thinking of it as a lifestyle and something you have to do, like it's a job (getting paid with a better body and health instead of money), helps.

[camo]

Find me the right kind of girl.

[MC Moot]

You echelon your dreams and they'll come true...type slowly...

[ms.peachy]

From '08:

I was just thinking about this earlier when writing out my christmas cards. We have a lot of friends we almost never see as they don't live in london anymore, and most all of us have a rugrat or two, so it just seems like we never find time to get together. So I decided that my resolution this year would be to get out of London more often and go visit with friends, maybe like one weekend a month or something.

Well I think I did OK with this one. Not quite once a month, but we did make more of an effort. Now of course, there is a heck of a lot more distance between us all, so... not so much visiting this year!

I don't think I made any resolutions for last year because it was just days before New Years when mr.p got the China job offer - so basically the whole year was really taken up with moving and getting settled. My resolutions this year are pretty basic:
- continue Mandarin lessons and be reasonably conversationally fluent by the end of the year
- travel outside of Shanghai to see more of the country

Also I'm doing a 'booze-free' January, maybe stretching as far as until Chinese New Year (14 Feb). Give my liver a bit of a holiday and to try to cut some empty calories out of my diet, as I've definitely put on a few pounds since moving here and I do drink more than I really ought to.

[ms.peachy]

Originally Posted by ms.peachy

- continue Mandarin lessons and be reasonably conversationally fluent by the end of the year
- travel outside of Shanghai to see more of the country

Also I'm doing a 'booze-free' January, maybe stretching as far as until Chinese New Year (14 Feb).

Yeah, I haven't restarted my Chinese lessons since the holidays, haven't left Shanghai, and caved on the drinking thing. Jesus, I'm like totally sucking at this, hey?

[Echewta]

To continue doing bad links and animated gifs on the board.

[NicRN77]

I've been volunteering once a week.

I've been exercising at 3-5 times a week...just took my first ever yoga class on Monday.

Eating healthy...that's not going so well....

[trailerprincess]

I made an end of January resolution and I to have got my arse back in gear to the gym. Lost 10lbs so far and feeling better. Am training for moonwalk marathon in May.