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New Year's Resolutions

Sekhmet

13:58 / 03.01.05

Did you make any?

What are they?

How's it going so far?

Triplets

14:43 / 03.01.05

No. And pretty good.

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15:15 / 03.01.05

I kind of made one to cut down smoking, and it's going fine. (even if it is making me look and feel like even more of a schiziod than I already am, the waves should calm down over the next few days if I keep the effort up and I'll probably be a lot better than I am now.)

I JUST WANT TO GO FUCKING INSANE. but i'm staying calm.

..........fields..........trees...........flowers.............anima...........space..............THUD.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

15:17 / 03.01.05

I made a conscious effort not to make any this year- I'm already trying hard enough to sort out my alcohol thing and to write more, and I figured if I tied them to New Year's then I'd just give myself another excuse not to be arsed, cos resolutions rarely work, and at least I'd have company when other people failed to give up smoking or whatever...

Sekhmet

16:45 / 03.01.05

I didn't really make any either, in the strict sense. Mostly I'm just renewing my commitment to the things I was trying to do last year. Getting back on the no-meat diet, finishing up paying off debts, and so on.

I donated my car to Goodwill, too - one less thing to worry about. I thought I would be sad to see her go, but as she was towed off I felt nothing but an enormous sense of relief...

Lilly Nowhere Late

19:12 / 03.01.05

I am resolving to be more nice. I'm not always very nice you see.

And I like the idea of resolving to disolve.
Would it be like alka seltzer, all fizzy and salty? mmmmm.

Whisky Priestess

19:31 / 03.01.05

1. Go ice-skating at least once a week (weeell ... maybe once a fortnight, depending on how expensive it is)

2. Write one short story per week (doesn't matter how shit or how short)

3. Write one poem per week (see above for quality and quantity control)

w1rebaby

20:49 / 03.01.05

Job. Flat. Fun. Not be such a pisshead.

Mazarine

23:53 / 03.01.05

Yes. I have resolved to make some local friends, as I'm lonesome and all my friends are over three hundred miles away. I'm tired of being an antisocial creep. I want to be a social creep. This is actually going moderately well, as people (seemingly sensing what my resolution was) have been giving me their cards and saying we should hang out. Now I just have to have the cojones to actually drop them an e-mail.

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00:18 / 04.01.05

*Gives Sally huggles*

Aww, thanks kitten.

I resolved to write more. So far it's working; it helps that I started writing no less then 100 words every day back in November.

Cheap. Easy. Cruel.

01:33 / 04.01.05

None here. I made a New Years resolution five years ago to never make another New Years resolution. I decided that if I needed to change something, I should just do it. So far, it has worked really well.

I do need to get back into the gym (not working out + office job is making me scrawny again). So next week, I am planning out my routine and heading back to hit the weights.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

02:39 / 04.01.05

I will finish three novels this year. Two that are partially done already and one that I will write in November.

The rest are all things that I should be doing anyway.

imaginary mice

09:36 / 04.01.05

1. Not to post any messages on Barbelith at 3 in the morning.

2. Not to post a message if I feel I might later find it embarrassing.

3. Not to post anything too personal on Barbelith.

4. Not too whinge so much on Barbelith.

5. Not to talk about myself so much on Barbelith.

6. Not to write about certain other people who I know personally and who also read this board.

7. To NEVER EVER divulge the address of my blog on Barbelith.

Axolotl

10:18 / 04.01.05

I have no specific resolutions but I have decided to have a general optimistic feeling about this year and use it to do exciting stuff. It is going to be a year of new beginnings and lots of fun.

pointless and uncalled for

11:09 / 04.01.05

Mainly strengthening existing resolves.

Live more healthy - going good so far as I have been cycling every day this year and have eaten little in the way of crap.

Be more productive - also going good with the cooking of three jars of lemon curd last night.

Stop being so selfish - nothing so far but then, this is only day four and there haven't been a great deal of opportunities presented yet.

Squirmelia

11:57 / 04.01.05

My resolution is:

To go camping at least once this year, since I did not go camping at all last year and if my tent actually had feelings (which I do not believe it does), I suspect it would currently be feeling neglected.

My resolution last year was to lie down in 13 different places that I would not be expected to lie down in, such as golf-courses, shopping malls, etc. Unfortunately I forgot all about it, so may resolve it again for this year.

Liger Null

12:27 / 04.01.05

(threadrot)

3. Not to post anything too personal on Barbelith.

But you can still give us highlights about the shows you saw and your horse. I love horses, but I'm a poor city girl who must live vicariously through the anecdotes of the fortunate ones

(/rot)

Triplets

12:39 / 04.01.05

Stop being so selfish - nothing so far but then, this is only day four and there haven't been a great deal of opportunities presented yet.

Apart from, say, the world's largest humanitarian disaster, not many.

pointless and uncalled for

13:18 / 04.01.05

That was last year and my efforts began shortly thereafter. Until I get paid again in this year or can clear my schedule for volunteering time then there aren't really many opportunities.

pointless and uncalled for

13:27 / 04.01.05

Just out of interest, how does the Indian Ocean Tsunami exceed The Holocaust as a humanitarian disaster, or indeed the 1976 Tangshan Earthquake?

farseer /pokes out an i

14:16 / 04.01.05

I had some resolutions, but they all melted away in some post-DMT happy haze.

Regrettable Juvenilia

15:53 / 04.01.05

To start using the internet either more productively, or less often, or both. Specifically, this means no longer wasting my time or energy on sites which don't really add anything to my life except high blood pressure, and only spending my time and energy on the good ones, the ones which are full of interesting discussion and fascinating writing and very smart individuals.

But I might stil log in here to check my PMs from time to time.

Haus of Mystery

21:49 / 04.01.05

I won't tell you mine, but a friend wants to become Britain's strongest man.

Best. Resolution. Ever.

Olulabelle

22:25 / 04.01.05

Sally Dammerung: "Now I just have to have the cojones to actually drop them an e-mail."

Do this.

I didn't used to do this.

I used to think people didn't really want me to. Then I found out that they'd actually given me their contact details for a reason (that they quite liked me and wanted to be friends) so they were upset and hurt when I didn't contact them again. It made them think that I had decided that they weren't worth contacting, when, in actual fact, I was just being scared that they might think I was annoying and dull.

So do it, DO IT! *Jumps up and down waggling pointy finger, being all officious and bossy.*

modern maenad

11:07 / 02.01.06

OK, so *bump*

any of these coming around for a second time folks? Any tales of success and fabulousness?

Hattie's Kitchen

13:53 / 02.01.06

diz

14:00 / 02.01.06

Maybe you and Rage should get together.

I'd pay good money to see that shit. Oh, lordy.

Regrettable Juvenilia

18:25 / 02.01.06

Stop objectifying me, diz.

Hattie, I think what you're quoting is the last time I left the board in a huff. Ah well.

foot long subbacultcha

14:05 / 04.01.06

To stop staring. Been doing ok so far.

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