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Gonna have a Resolution

Eek! A Freek!

11:51 / 31.12.08

I resolve to finally grow up and apply myself to my work.
I resolve to ignore the Sirens empty songs calling from the internet.
I resolve to stop buying shit I don't need (Books excepted).
I resolve to love myself a bit more (No easy internet jokes, please...)
I resolve to live life more than I have.

Anyone else wanna resolve anything in time for the New Year? I know that statistically resolutions tend to not work, but I've had modest success with them...

Shrug

00:07 / 01.01.09

I would like to stop being the heinous fuck up I am.
Actions have been taken.
I await results.
Patiently.

00:14 / 01.01.09

I resolve to make something for Future Earth. :3
I resolve to use ':3' just a bit more.
I resolve to learn more French; je parle français un peu, mais pas très bien.
I resolve to recreate myself.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

02:35 / 01.01.09

All that stuff I did in 2008?

I should really try not to do any of that.

(and that stuff I was doing for Future Earth? I should REALLY finish that, because the real-life stuff that got in the way should never have happened, and finishing that story really SHOULD).

Alex's Grandma

02:38 / 01.01.09

Never, in 2009 or any other year, shall I ever return to the village of Innsbruck.

But these things are made to be broken, I suppose.

Tsuga

02:52 / 01.01.09

Fuck yea, motherfucker. Go back to Innsbruck. I dare you.

What else is there to do this year? Really? It's not like there's anything else going on.

Whereas I resolve to make some extremely inflammatory posts here, only to try and instigate some righteously indignant posting.

It's not like there's anything else going on.

Tsuga

02:52 / 01.01.09

and a happy new year to you all.

Alex's Grandma

03:55 / 01.01.09

Thumbs up to Innsbruck then? Or thumbs down?

I'll admit to being conflicted.

I'm sure ... I'm sure there are many other 'things' 'going on' 'in the world' this year.

But none of them seem to have the same sort of inescapable ... weight, I suppose, as certain unresolved matters in the village of Innsbruck.

The memories of which hang about my neck like a chain, drawing me slowly, steadily back.

astrojax69

04:15 / 01.01.09

i resolve to become somewhat less of a fat bastard...

i resolve to sort out my sense of self-worth issues...

i resolve to stop telling the world about my resolutions.

damn!

i also resolve to finish my novel. really.

Liger Null

16:00 / 01.01.09

I resolve to keep my apartment tidier.

I resolve to make straight A's in my classes (just like I did last year-WOOT!)

I resolve to finish drawing that comic I'm working on.

I resolve to eat healthier, get more exercise and hopefully lose that excess body fat that keeps me from fitting into my "really cool clothes".

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

17:35 / 01.01.09

I resolve to be productive again.

I resolve to save more money than I did last year (I did a fine job last year, but I'm thinking I can do better).

I resolve to give MattS's part of Canada a chance.

I resolve to learn how to be an equal partner in my upcoming marriage as I am used to being somewhat selfish.

I resolve to stay in contact with friends who really mean a lot to me.

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

23:51 / 01.01.09

I resolve to finally effing graduate.

I resolve to become better at Go.

I resolve to make my way east again, this time for work.

Baroness von Lenska

00:55 / 02.01.09

I resolve to be writing "2009" on things by February instead of a "2008" that I then kind of scratch in a funny way to look like a sloppily written "2009."

02:17 / 02.01.09

This isn't super on-topic and I don't think it really warrants a separate thread, but the first thing I did in 2009 was watch some kind of MTV music award show, and I realised that people actually listen to T-Pain performing sloppily lip-synched medleys of his own music.

Blue Eyes Not Innocent

13:37 / 02.01.09

I've resolved to stop drinking(the brand new scar I'm sporting on my upper lip from a nasty drunken spill's a nice reminder). Gonna clean up my life, too. And I think I'm going to try to fix things with my ex-girlfriend, because somebody here was right, I didn't try hard enough. But I love her all the same.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

13:50 / 02.01.09

I resolved to be healthier this year than last, but the eyelid that I had the surgery on swelled up again over night on New Year's, so I'm off to just the super-best-greatest start ever.

Not impressed, 2009. Not impressed.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:18 / 02.01.09

Well, so far I've registered with a GP with the intention of getting myself back on the meds so I can actually start trying to cope with life, and have closed my ISA so I can start the New Year having paid off all my debts. Not having debts seems more important than having savings, really.

bjacques

00:00 / 03.01.09

Definitely, Stoatie, speaking as one once cripplingly in debt.

I'm gonna lose weight.

Mr. E

01:28 / 03.01.09

This year I'm going to:

Lose 30 lbs.
Continue to be an ex-smoker.
Make alcohol less a feature of my social life.
Re-invent my social life.
Spend less time on the internet.
Relocate to somewhere warmer.
Get serious about my career...put more energy into work.
Find a new job that I love.
Integrate the various “pieces” of my life.
Stop being so secretive and distant.
Express more love and affection with family & friends.
Spend more quality time with my folks.
Be a better friend.
Buy a house.
Put all I’ve learned about forgiveness into practice.
Let go of some of some old shit.

gingerbop

15:02 / 03.01.09

I'd so desperately like to say "buy a flat", but it would be a terrible idea. Sooo.. I will cut down on whinging about my current flat, and start making it a nicer place to live in the meantime.

imaginary mice

15:23 / 03.01.09

I want to shag my boss.

dark horse

18:42 / 03.01.09

sounds fun, is she hot!? i can't imagine wanting to shag my boss she must be 400 pounds.

my resolution is more like a project, which is: me. i want to work on being the best me i can be in oh oh nine...

Alex's Grandma

19:16 / 03.01.09

I applaud your optimism, but isn't that the kind of thing Ted Bundy used to say?

imaginary mice

19:36 / 03.01.09

is she hot!?

It's a bloke and no, he's not that "hot". But he's got a gorgeous northern accent and once bumped into Nick Cave and Blixa Bargeld at a comedy club...

astrojax69

20:34 / 03.01.09

only 361 days left, mice...

Mistoffelees

21:01 / 03.01.09

I haven´t decided yet if I will have any resolutions. And if I do, then how many would be realistic? More than two might be doomed from the start. I had stopped this NYR business years ago, but recently realized that not having them also didn´t do anything for a more constructive behaviour.

Maybe I will take an already posted resolution.

Alex's Grandma

02:30 / 04.01.09

I haven't decided if I should saw my fireman off, and then drown myself in a vat of port, but your above post, Mist, has, shall we say, nudged my elbow.

Alex's Grandma

02:35 / 04.01.09

(Honestly mate, you're C-list - best not to make waves, if poss)

Tsuga

03:04 / 04.01.09

Maybe I will take an already posted resolution.

Well, Mice's wasn't exactly a resolution, so you're welcome to my drunken resolution above.

Unless, Granny? You're heading there, do you want to take it all the way home?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

12:24 / 04.01.09

sounds fun, is she hot!? i can't imagine wanting to shag my boss she must be 400 pounds.

Oh do fuck off. Seriously, who is this tosser? This is one of you lot in a fucking joke-suit, isn't it?

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