What have you decided for the new year? Do you think you will commit to it?

Mine is to become a vegetarian....again. I hope I will be able to keep to it this time.

1. get in tune with the "great father and great mother"
2. lose some weight
3. start my visual synth pop band!
4. be less repress
5. not give a fuck!
6. to try cherry wine for the first time!
7. magick
8. do better in my classes
9. start my art history think..

Find me a bomb ass man!
Find me a bomb ass job!
Find me a bobm ass apartment!
Go to the Fashion Institute!!

To beef up (no pun intended).

I've been working out for the past 2 years and I have no problem with gaining definition, however I simply can't get any bigger and gain major mass. I have a real problem consuming 2,000 calories a day (I think the average for a grown man) due, in part, to being a vegetarian, and there are only so many protein and carb shakes one can drink.

Oh, and my other resolution is to stop myself signing up for year 2 of LotusFlow3r.com and teach that bitch a lesson.

shit, i gotta add to my list


make more money
get a tattoo
visit the bahamas
stop talking to my exes
do volunteer work at an animal shelter

I always make a year-end resolution not to make new year resolutions!

However, I'm shooting for...

* Graduation
* At least initiating the dual citizenship process
* Getting my butt overseas for a bit
* Getting solidly behind some charitable effort
[Edited 11/21/09 19:19pm]

Lammastide said:

NICE! in what i may ask? if i am allowed of course

baroque said:

Of course... theology.

not be such a slut and allow myself to tear down that wall between emotion and sex that i've done such a good job of putting up in the last couple years. maybe find someone to spend some time with.

get my spending under control.

stop coasting at work and get fired up about it again.

get a new(er) car.

get this damn broken tooth pulled, finally.

lose some more weight.

Lammastide said:

good luck! im cheering you on!

Well, I'm currently 19 pounds away from my first goal weight. (I've lost 51 so far this year.) I want to hit that for sure. Then maybe another 15 after that. Then maybe another 15 after that even. Or not. We'll see.

Even more than that I want to ensure I never "waste" a calorie on something I don't positively love to eat/drink or that isn't wonderfully nutritious, preferably both.

I'm pretty sure I'm gonna run a half marathon next year. That'll be pretty cool.

I plan to take classes to get my business proposal together to go into business with a friend of mine. Stop working for the man. I cannot WAIT.

I haven't left the country in 3 years. So here's hoping I'll change that in 2010.

Finish both my books.

Visit Ko Sumai, Phuket, and Krabi in Thailand.

Get back to my normal weight.

Speak conversational Thai and German (oddly, there are so many German tourist, I may be able to do this). Also, learn to read Thai.

Take as many pictures as I can of strange places.


grammar edit
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1.lose weight
2.move to new york

to teach my kids the value of money

by starting with pocket money in the new year and sponsoring a child which they will be expected to help with some of their pocket money and some of their birthday money. The master suggests we all give our christmas gift money as well - he is going to tell them about poverty.

wish us luck!

The kids think money is something you just go and "get" from the bank!
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to.lose.weight

ZombieKitten said:

my mom did that with us one year. lasted a few months until she got sick of keeping track of it and we never spoke of starving children in 3rd world countries ever again

errant said:

how are you at budgeting?

ZombieKitten said:

really. fucking. bad.


actually, the less money i have, the better i am at budgeting it. so pretty good, because i generally blow my paycheck the first week, so i usually don't have much

Spend more time with the kids
Get a house with a pool
Lose 10 kilos
Try and save a bit of money
Do something about the stretch marks on my ass

ZombieKitten said:

magic money machines in walls

errant said:

I'm really good at budgeting what did my parents do? Didn't give me an f@*#ing thing!!!! My college years were spent living on 63 cents for the last 3 days before I got my payment that sure learned me!!!

make my wife happy. that's it.

i love ms. whistle.

whistle said:

how do you plan to do that? what things will you do?

ZombieKitten said:

offer support instead of criticism.

talk less, listen more.

participate.

1. a formal expression of opinion or intention made, usually after voting, by a formal organization, a legislature, a club, or other group. Compare concurrent resolution, joint resolution.
2. a resolve or determination.
3. the act of resolving or determining upon an action or course of action, method, procedure, etc.
4. the mental state or quality of being resolved or resolute; firmness of purpose.
5. the act or process of resolving or separating into constituent or elementary parts.
6. the resulting state.

Resolutions are stupid, and made my stupid people.

Here's why resolutions are stupid:
1. If someone is going to do something, they'll start today, not wait until January 1 to do it. Whether it's a diet, quitting smoking, or whatever, a person will do that when they're ready. When they are truly resolved to doing it, they'll do it, and 99% of the time it won't be on January 1. You can lead a horse to water...
2. It sets people up for failure. The minute you slip up on, or flat out abandon, your resolution, there's some level of immediate, and often times longer lasting, guilt. Why live with undue guilt?
3. Retailers profit from stupid people making stupid resolutions. Gym memberships sky rocket, and by April over 90% of those people will never return, yet they're locked into a contract (with most gyms, unless you're at one like Planet Fitness, or some mom and pop gym w/ no contract). But if people are stupid enough to toss away money, someone has to be smart enough to catch it.

ernestsewell said:

True. Never had any resolution, because I always knew I just can't keep them. Resolution = fooling yourself.

ernestsewell said:

Always such a sparkle of sunshine.


1. What I noted on this thread are goals I'm already working on. I don't think there's anything wrong with taking stock of where you're at, at the end of a year and deciding what you'd like to accomplish in the new one.
2. I don't see that it sets you up for failure simply by setting a goal for yourself. Quite the opposite. If you don't HAVE a goal, how will you know when you're succeeding? I do think we'd all do better by ourselves by forgiving ourselves when we make mistakes. If that's what you're getting at by "guilt". But that's not exclusive to goal-setting.
3. Yeah, commercialism sucks, whether it's New Years or Xmas or keeping up with the Jones's. But what's new?

whistle said:

That's really sweet.

CarrieMpls said:

i hope i live up to it.

CarrieMpls said:

I'm being realistic, not a stick in the mud.

1. I wasn't attacking any specific person, but rather the idea of the whole thing. I'm all for taking stock, but that can happen any damn day of the year.
2. Goals are fine, but again, if someone REALLY wants to accomplish something, why wait? If a person died on Dec 31 (or even today), they'd never have even known the joy of starting to reach for their goal(s). The guilt comes in when by April or May, they've given up on it, and think "God, I'm such a failure." Then by October, they're reconsidering the whole damn thing over again. It's a vicious cycle.
3. Eh.

In short, if anyone wants to accomplish something, DO IT RIGHT NOW. Not tomorrow, not after CSI, but right now. The great thinkers, movers, and world changers didn't make a resolution on January 1 to find the cure for polio, to map the human genome, to create Blu Ray technology, to do anything. They made a choice to move on it when they knew they could. Dates were unimportant, but rather the internal RESOLVE set it and they just did it. They didn't wait until New Year's to dig into it.