The New Year: 2007

What are your plans? Any resolutions? I promise that the internet is forgiving and won't keep you too accountable.

I'll go first.

In the new year. . .

*not for starters, but somewhere in there I'd like to come back to the MoFo family more often. I've really missed all of you and the real world can be so lonely. . .

1. Reading my bible more. Y'all say what you will about religion, and y'all can believe what you want. But the thing has been around for forever and I find myself acting in a totally different mindset after reading some scripture (to be all Billy Graham on ya').

2. Read more period.

3. Learn a new language. Well, maybe two; re-learn Spanish and pick up another (something middle eastern, probably Hebrew)

4. Fiscal responsibility.

5. To show grace for every insult; to encourage to a fault; to think before I speak; to curb every hasty word that might jeopardize future dealings with people; to build, not burn bridges with my words. This might be a lifetime struggle.

6. To be healthier. I am not going to be crazy and say I need to lose twenty pounds, because I don't--but it certainly wouldn't hurt me or my future if I cultivated more health conscious eating habits and acquired a taste for excersize beyond the obligatory 3-minute trip to the gym. Maybe pilates?

7. To reconnect with old friends, deepen current friendships, a make at least five new friends of whom I can call 'kindred spirits'.

8. To not be afraid of being wrong when it comes to falling more in love, but to learn patience and discernment in identifying love.

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I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
T.S Eliot, "Preludes"

It sounds as though you have a great year ahead of you, glitters!!

For me:

1. I am joining Weight Watchers for the first time with my boyfriend. This is not a resolution per se, we both have been trying to lose weight for years. We both manage to lose 10-20 lbs, but quickly gain it all back. So our hopes are to lose the weight and KEEP it off permanantly. I have more to lose than my boyfriend, but I think if we work together we will have success.

2. Be more active and healthy in general. I have abused my body long enough!

3. Improve my grades at school. I have been struggling for the past few years to get my grades up in order to get into a specific program. However, there is ALWAYS something that gets in my way of committing to it. Whether it be my own health problems or familial problems.

4. Improve my attentiveness to my boyfriend. Over the past I feel I have neglected him to some degree. He says I haven't but I feel like I could show him just how much he really means to me everyday. I think I am a good girlfriend, but deep in my heart I feel I could do a little more for him. I often take him for granted...

5. Learn Swing dancing. I have wanted to learn this for year!

6. Do more charity work. Each summer I do some charity work and last summer I was able to spend 3 days per week for 5 hours per day. But I would like to do a little more this year. I am no saint, but how can I enjoy the things I have when others are suffering? Volunteering isn't to ease my guilt for enjoying what I have, but to give some of what I have to people who really need it...that being my skill to help people in need.

I make the same resolution every single year and I edge closer to the ideal every single year that resolution is simply:
Be more kind.

Others include:
Keeping friends and loved ones close.
Telling my baby I love her on a daily basis.
Telling my son the same thing.
Telling my closest friends and family the same thing.
Showing all of them.
Giving as much as I can.
Taking as little as I can.
Being honest with my feelings and recognizing where they come from.
Being honest with myself.
Paying attention to what I say and how I say it.
Being more financially responsible.

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"You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do." -David Cronenberg

I never bother with resolutions 'cos i never keep them, My main resolution has been to give up smoking, I've said that for the last 5 years and i'm still smoking!!
As for new years plans, i'll be doing the same thingi do every new years and that's the disco in my local!

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One resolution I renew every year is to avoid processed sugar. Sounds silly, but I used to absolutely gorge on desserts (you wouldn't believe me if I told you how much I could down in a sitting), and one year I just decided to stop. That was something like 6 years ago, and though I've had tiny sips of regular soda (when diet was nowhere to be found), and accidently eaten the occasional popsicle (thinking it was sugar free), I've stuck with no sugar or no sugar added desserts basically the entire time.

Other than that, definitely to start reading regularly again. I used to read constantly, but since I moved a few months ago it's become quite sporadic.

As much as anything else, however, I want to finish GoQuiz, a site I've been building off and on (mostly off) for several years now. It's not going to be anything revolutionary, but it'll do some reasonably cool things, and various other sites and non-Internet concerns have distracted me from it over the years. This'll be the year it finally launches.

Not a whole lot other than that. I'm rather happy with where I am in most respects. I view 2007 as a year to build on and improve the basic framework I already have, and not a year for dramatic changes. Then again, to paraphrase Jayne, what I plan and what takes place ain't ever exactly been similar.

Happy New Year to all, It's probably not a good idea to post when your this drunk, Oh well! I'm just gonna wish everyone a prosperous 2007 and go and crash out!

I'm reminded of Becker; No expectations, no disappointments.

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"This is that human freedom, which all boast that they possess, and which consists solely in the fact, that men are conscious of their own desire, but are ignorant of the causes whereby that desire has been determined." -Baruch Spinoza

In the coming year, I plan to:

1. Be more social. Admittedly, I have the tendency to shut people out. It's never really anything I intend to do, it just happens. So I'm going to find more time for other people as well as myself in 2007.

2. Quit procrastinating. Just because something CAN wait till tomorrow, doesn't mean that it SHOULD. I'd get a lot more accomplished if I'd just do things as they arise and not put them off.

3. Get a better job. I tend to stay with jobs I hate just because it's easier than looking for a new one, and that's not a good thing.

4. Move away from here. I hate this town. It's so bleak, and the rent is EXPENSIVE.

5. Go back to England. Such a beautiful country. I want to make it my permanent home one day.

6. Stop smoking. This one's easy cause I don't smoke to begin with, so stopping will be a snap. haha.

This year, I will try to cut down the junk food down and lose more weight.

I also will try to make more friends.

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Umm I am with oldgeeza i don't make resolutions I just try to be the best person i can most of the time

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha

Why would you do that? This country's a sh!thole, More people are leaving England than ever before. 6 people i know have left England in the last couple of month's, Thats gotta say something about this country

Cheeky!

NO, no, no!!! wrong country. scotlands way more pretty then england.




do you really feel that way????? thats a shame. i think this country (talking bout UK here..) is a lovely place to live. we dont go on holidays abroad cause of the dogs, but travel up north instead for hols. i have to say, it never ceases to amaze me the feeling i get seeing the mountains.........it hits me every time about how lucky i am to live in such a beautiful place. i just love scotland. we do travel down to england a fair bit as well and there are some beautiful places there too.

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have you visited witchy today??

monkey business

Yoda's mommy's always been proud of his no-sugar thing, but she also wishes he'd add in more green vegetables and less fat! (cough cough)

My own goals include getting some humor articles published, finding an agent for one of the four novels I have, and making a living more with writing than with proofreading and editing.

I also want to get back on the right track with diet and exercise. Joining Curves has brought down my blood pressure but I have to step it up a little and go to the next level. It's been too long.

The rest of my life is mostly where I like it. Or, at least, in a place where, if nothing improves, I'll still be quite happy.

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I like that. I'll make that one mine.

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I think i'll spend this year deep in thought, trying to figure out a really good resolution for next year.

Hmm. Well, I have family there, and everyone is so polite, and there's large green fields everywhere, whereas where I live now, I'm by myself, we have large grey parking lots everywhere and people are rude as hell, and proud of that fact. LOL.

My goal is just to have a better year than 2006. That's about it. I didn't particularly like 2006. Things stressed me out a lot. I was trying to get used to all of the changes I was enduring. I want to be more comfortable.

It's completely amazing to me that it's already 2007. I will turn 24 this year. That means that next year I'll be 25. That's halfway to 50. Sorry to those of you who are 50, over 50 or almost 50... well, maybe you're OK with it. It kinda freaks me out. Granted, that's still a long way to go, but I think life seems faster as you age.

Mine are to:
Re-give up smoking.
Do more things with my friends from college so we stay together.
Settle into a relationship instead of just pulling random girls.

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Set out a pratice schedule for guitar and bass...I keep on neglecting praticing cause I'm lazy. This year it shall happen, damnit.

How are people's resolutions holding up then? One of mines going well the others aint really changed.