New Year's Resolutions v.2009!

[jewishjosh]

There's a thread from last year but I figured it would be cleaner to make a new one.

Has anyone made resolutions yet this year? What are they? Each year, do you actually follow through with them, or is it just a list of things you come up with off the top of your head 5 minutes before the ball drops so you can pretend to yourself that you're working on things you'd like to change? How successful were you with them last year?

Last year, among other things, I resolved to run more, which succeeded, and read more, which failed. I will be continuing both. My main focus for 2009 is to restore my time management skills, which I guess is a convenient catch-all resolution and may sound like a cop-out in lieu of coming up with something specific, but it sums up what I want to fix in my life right now. I don't mind, in fact I want to keep my resolutions simple this year. I never come up with anything new or life-changing for my resolutions, I just take whatever is on my mind and make it concrete at this arbitrary time of year out of habit. New Year's resolutions don't actually affect my resolve to accomplish my goals, for better or for worse, they just serve as an annual snapshot of my goals that I can look back on this time next year.

[Valkyrie]

Normally mines just a quick list - but this year's different :)
I actually thought them out. Though generally their more like guidelines than actual commitments, something I should stick to, but it won't kill me to not follow.

Resolutions:

-MAINTAIN my grades and possibly improve
-Meet my honor deadlines
-Cut out sugar... (typical girl one)
-Stop being fogada (it's a brazilian term, almost like lazy but not as bad)
-Spend more time outdoors and less on the internet

[bizzle]

I've decided to try a diet free of all refined sugar and never smoke another cigarette in my life. I am also going to call my friends to hang out more often.

[Niki]

I'm going to try to stop being a bitch, but I've been trying the same thing for the past five years.

I'm really making an effort this year though!

[HailCrest]

- Gain weight (I'm underweight... and seriously I just can't get heavier no matter how much I eat)
- Clear up as much weekly time as I can
- Read 2500 pages' worth of books
- Get a job
- Win 5 Wi-fi matches with Ness

[Fluzz]

Lose a bit of weight,
Cut down on being a dumbass,
Bring up my grades,
Try my best to stop forgetting,
and stop being an asshole.

[HappyPalooza]

I intend to gain weight, in muscle.

[ultrasoundchick]

I try to keep my resolutions simple, they are easier to keep that way. This year, my resolution is to lose 12 pounds. Typical girly resolution, I know.

The only resolution that I've ever actually kept, and still do, is not ashing cigarettes in sink drains.

[koots]

Do better in my classes(this is really more of a resolutions for this semester than for 2009). For the year, follow through on any travel plans I make.

[CharlieH]

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d115/CharlieH_1989/NYR-1.png

I will never change.

[Jabo]

1)Start inviting people to my place. I seriously have to start doing that, I feel selfish.
2)Tell my parents I drink, and that my friends smoke.
3)Take sing classes
4)Re-start Muay Thai classes
5)Improve a little bit on school (Im good actually, but I know I can be much better)
6)Spend like 10 hours less on the internet weekly.
7)Don't just get out of my house at night, also when the sun is up.
8)Be more polite. I am a good person, but I'm definately not polite.
9)Keep being a "people person"
10)Paint and decorate my room in a very artistic and abstract way.

[CharlieH]

10)Paint and decorate my room in a very artistic and abstract way.

Like your avatar?

[Ureshii]

-Get all my classes this year endorsed with excellance (equilvalent to a 3.5+ GPA)
-Get a full drivers liscence
-Be more sociable
-Go caving more

[TheFerret]

-Be more sociable
-Be better about practicing guitar
-Work harder

[Pelican Man]

1. Spend more time playing bass, through my amp especially.
2. Spend more time playing keyboard.
3. Continue going to bed and waking up at reasonable hours.
4. Continue working out daily.
5. Run more; increase aerobic fitness.
6. Do well in Uni, which I start next year.
7. Do more with my band.

That's really it. Mainly want to get fitter and have the band stand a chance of taking off. That'd be sa-weet.

[Jabo]

Like your avatar?

Haha, yeah, hopefully. I was actually thinking about throwing glasses full of paint to the walls.



And for the ones who want to be more sociable, all you have to do is to pretend you like people you dont, be nice with them, even if you don't really know them. Then you can start choosing who you like most and they will end up being your friends.

[lolguy]

-Work out a little more
-Get rid of the excess weight I gained over break
-break annoying habits like chewing fingernails and popping my knuckles

[Dodger]

-Get into college.

So far it hasn't been going well, since I've yet to finish an application and they're due the 15th.

[Snarfnbarf]

Get outside and have sexual relations with a girl :emo:

[Riddlebox]

1. Get my bass player to show up to practice.
2. Decide what the fuck I'm going to do with myself. (took a year off before uni, took a trip to Liverpool to see relatives, and then Japan, haven't done shit since.)
3. Possibly quit smoking, if I can be assed.
4. Find friends that aren't so into hallucinogenics. Seriously, it was cool for a while, but not anymore. They're not as "deep" as they think they are.
5. Walk 10 miles in every direction from our apartment, just for the experience. (almost done with this one)

[Echo]

1. Find a hobby.
2. Go outside more.
3. Find a way to manage my pet rabbit. (He keeps chewing up all my stuff and peeing everywhere)
4. Wake up before 2 on weekends

This is probably the first time I've made a list. That's bad.

[Fluzz]

1. Spend more time playing bass, through my amp especially.

Fuck me I forgot to add this.

[kavea]

1. Try harder in school
2. Learn guitar
3. Go outside more often.
4. Go to sleep before 3 on school nights

I usually forget about these a couple of days after New Years so it doesn't work out every year.

[Infinity]

To stop saying fuck you so much....unless they really deserve it.

[Mr Anorexia]

-Apply to more colleges
-Get a job
-Spend less time on the computer
-Hang out a lot more with friends before the whole college thing happens and I wouldn't see most of them often/ever again.

[gagins]

1. Get into Varsity soccer.
2. Actually attend the aikido classes that I've been paying for for the last two months.
3. Maintain/improve my grades, those freaking exams brought most of them down :wail:.
4. Stop being so passive-aggressive.
5. Eat healthy stuff.
6. Learn how to use Adobe After Effects.
7. Do something somewhat productive with my time.

My New Year's resolutions never work out so I'm probably going to ignore this list after a couple of weeks.

[CnGy]

*Improve health.
*Improve discipline.
*Improve morale.
*Improve magical powers.
*Improve management of owned cartels in the tropics.
*Play basketball with Barack Obama.
*Invent time travel.
*Play baseball with Jesus Christ.
*Do the splits.
*Talk to the dead.
*Swim across the English Channel.
*Invent shoes that can dance.
*Contact aliens.
*Have dinner with Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro, while shooting people.
*Dig up Benjamin Franklin, and fly kites, made from Benjamin Franklin.
*Find Nessy.
*Break into the real estate business.
*Join a bowling team.
*Write a book about childhood trauma.
*Ski

[Ziggy St. Valentine]

- Lose weight because I have a decent beer gut.
- Drink less.
- Play bass ALOT more.
- Get good at bass and start learning guitar.
- Be more awesome (if possible).
- FINALLY learn to drive.

[Derelict]

- Run more.
- Get a job.

I took the simple approach.

[John Travolta]

- Do this.

[sprene]

-Get a job
-Take my road test
-Talk to more people who aren't really good friends yet, so they might be sometime
-Hang out with my good friends more

[gizzalove]

I'm going to try to stop being a bitch, but I've been trying the same thing for the past five years.

I'm really making an effort this year though!
Last year mine was this. But I totally failed, I think I actually got worse. So this year my only resolution is to not die :)

EDIT: Oh yeah I kind of need to pass my written driving test to.

[Shagg]

Become fitter, happier, more productive,
comfortable,
not drinking too much,
regular exercise at the gym
(3 days a week),
getting along better with your associate employee contemporaries,
at ease,
eating well
(no more microwave dinners and saturated fats),
a patient better driver,
a safer car
(baby smiling in back seat),
sleeping well
(no bad dreams),
no paranoia,
careful to all animals
(never washing spiders down the plughole),
keep in contact with old friends
(enjoy a drink now and then),
will frequently check credit at (moral) bank (hole in the wall),
favors for favors,
fond but not in love,
charity standing orders,
on Sundays ring road supermarket
(no killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants),
car wash
(also on Sundays),
no longer afraid of the dark or midday shadows
nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate,
nothing so childish - at a better pace,
slower and more calculated,
no chance of escape,
now self-employed,
concerned (but powerless),
an empowered and informed member of society
(pragmatism not idealism),
will not cry in public,
less chance of illness,
tires that grip in the wet
(shot of baby strapped in back seat),
a good memory,
still cries at a good film,
still kisses with saliva,
no longer empty and frantic like a cat tied to a stick,
that's driven into frozen winter shit
(the ability to laugh at weakness),
calm,
fitter,
healthier and more productive
a pig in a cage on antibiotics.

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[Antisaint]

Start setting goals.

[Iceshade]

-Hang out a lot more with friends before the whole college thing happens and I wouldn't see most of them often/ever again.

Anybody that is a real friend, you'll most likely see again. I figured I wouldn't see too many people from my high school but I still see all of my high school friends over breaks.

1) Swim and work out (more) regularly
2) Not fail any of my spring classes
3) Figure out what the hell internship I want to take this summer

[Metalhead636]

-Be less of a smart-ass in public.
-Make my whole priority in life to make people feel dumb.
-Maybe open a restaurant?

[hollywood_maggot]

- pull my finger out of my arse and actually DO stuff, including school work which next year becomes important
- get fit (again)
- start giving a shit

[Souldrinker]

Step into the role of captain and get my touch footy team into order, stop the individualism that tears apart what could be a great team and finally win a competition after 14 long years of trying...

[Casalen]

I wage a constant battle against the Time Spiders, who travel through time and get into my head, stealing my thoughts. This shall be the year of my victory.

[Siren]

-To not care so much about other people and focus on myself
-creating a happier and healthier life for myself
-keep shit simple
-stop falling in love
:wcc:

[Ricette]

Get a drivers license
Get a better place than this apartment
Maintain a healthy pregnancy. Its going well so far.

[macaronisheep]

1. Lose a little weight
2. Become an exotic dancer to pay my way through university (yeah right)
3. Pass Health Sci First Year so they let me into the med school
4. Not become addicted to alcohol, cigarettes or illegal substances of any form

[Pelican Man]

Step into the role of captain and get my touch footy team into order, stop the individualism that tears apart what could be a great team and finally win a competition after 14 long years of trying...

That's another one for me; finally win a grand final at SOMETHING. (which would be indoor soccer as that's my current sport)

[fat-red-chicken]

1. Get regular.

EDIT: ...I mean on Explosm. That was awkward.

[Pencil]

I'm thinking about starting sport again.

[natalie137]

1) Stop smoking. It's fucking up my chest something chronic
2) Try to be a tidier person. Meaning I will stop using my floor as storage space
3) Look after my hair more. I straighten it and dye it way too much and it's in such shit condition
4) Be better with money
5) Stop being so shit at keeping in touch with my friends
6) Actually do something with my life instead of just being stuck working behind a supermarket deli

[CheesePlease]

I'm just going to concentrate a hell of a lot harder on my studies, seeing as the HSC actually means something.

[bono]

Stop smoking, to all reading this who dont smoke or might be playing with the idea or "casual smokers" stop while you can. Those old farts who told me that once upon a time were right, but I didnt listen. Now i plain and simply cant stop (and I do want to). I dont even enjoy smoking anymore, I just smoke because I have to smoke. Not after tonight though (I hope).

[Assassin]

- Getting a job in the summer.
- Working more on my guitar skills.
- Becoming more awesome.

[elscrago]

Fap thrice daily.

[Gambit36094]

- Work on Bass more
- Work on Fencing
- Get a full license so I can stop mooching off my friends

[The Fetus]

I'm really worried about my health, so for 2009 I decided I'm going to eat as healthy as possible. I'm not like--fat or anything, but I don't have as much energy. Need to exercise too.

[jewishjosh]

Fap thrice daily.

Trust me, you really don't want to do this.

Resolving to get others to do it for you thrice daily, now that's a resolution.

[Derelict]

Fapping thrice daily sounds like a good resolution to me.

[TheHighwaySong]

-Workout more often. I think I can count on two hands how many times I went to the gym all year.
-Improve my bass skills
-Improve my double bass skills.
-Improve my keyboard skills, and with that, make enough of an effort to finally get the band I'm in to go somewhere.
-Be a better boyfriend :frown:

[FuriousPineapple]

Only set goal I have is a Track one: to break a 5 minute mile.

[Gryphon]

My new years resolution (as stupid as it seems) is to no longer drink pop and drink more water. It seems easy, but I love pop, and its half the reason why I ever gain weight cause of all the damn sugar in it.

If I were to say I had a second one, it'd probably be to work out more. I have a gym membership I use once in a blue moon, and I honestly wanna get back into the swing of things. I also have an audition coming up for a cruise line(Royal Caribbean) in February that I've told myself I HAVE to get.

[Raxo]

- Get a girl to touch my penis voluntarily

[Tyr1358]

Lose weight.

[Profane Methane]

Fly kick someone in the head, its been on my to do list for awhile now.

[SizzlingNickel]

To be more awesome than last year.Be richer than Bill gates bone coca cola (tired of doing the dew) and take over Explosm.But we all know that's never going to happen.I mean how am i going to be more awesome than last year that's impossible.

[hollywood_maggot]

- Get a girl to touch my penis voluntarily

Don't I know it

[KeyboardSpastic]

- Lose some weight
- Decide what I want to do with my life
- Do considerably well in my final year of high school
- Get my driver's license
- Get with someone whom I've decided (as of last nite) that I'm going after
- Actually take a decent school foto after 12 years of hideous.
- Master latte-art.

[Rudeboy]

1) Keep my grades where they are
2) Work my ass off with my current relationship, which happens to be the first one that will actually last, and be enjoyable :D
3) Keep focused when trying to accomplish homework (Normally I just stare at my wall)

[MistyTehMoose]

2) Work my ass off with my current relationship, which happens to be the first one that will actually last, and be enjoyable :D

Thats what they all say.

For Mine:

- Help improve the new place I am working at and build a customer base (we just opened)
- Spend more time with my friends and not be so lazy about seeing them

[slayer41]

Concentrate on my studies.
Get a ripped body. (Won't actually be all that hard. I already run quite often, just have to start lifting weights)
Try to talk with this girl I like.

[McGruff]

this shouldnt be too hard:
-Start getting even healthier. (im already pretty fit, but I wish I ran more)
-Stop snacking. Period.
-Cut back a bit more and eat a lot less meat.
-Start saving my money
-Get a shit job to pay for classes
-Start studying a bit more
-Start painting/drawing again
-Quit slacking off and cutting class
-Continue keeping my relationship strong

Im pretty sure I can do that much, Im already determined and I have 10 minutes left.

[junglebunny]

Go to the gym more is my only serious one.

And for not serious would be have sex with all the girls are remotely interested in me (1 would probably help 2).

[Tweek]

I don't have any, I just have the goals I already had.
Which are, get a job and move out.
And maybe stop sucking so much.

[Raxo]

Good thing this thread is here so we can all come back December 31st and see how much we failed at this.

I'm taking Gryphon's and drinking less soda.

[hollywood_maggot]

Well if I fail mine my parents are pulling me out of school and making me get an apprenticeship. So I rather like to think I'll be looking back and thinking 'thank god I didn't fail'.

[Stealth Prawn]

-Not become worse at anything in any way shape or form by a wide enough margin for others to notice.

See, this way, I won't disappoint myself later, like you all will.

[birthshirt]

-Leave my soul sapping managerial job at BT and get a career (MoD police interview in February!).
-Get as fit as i was last new years.
-Play airsoft more and buy a new rifle.
-Get on the road.
-Get potty trained.
-Kill Jeremy Vine.
-And also attempt to feel genuine compassion for my fellow man.

[BreakTheWalls]

My New Year's Resolution will be 1024 x 768. :shobon:

Now onto srs bznz:

- Go to gym more often
- Improve piano skills
- Enlarge my Gamerscore
- Make a flash cartoon like I've always told myself I would
- Become a master accountant.

[cptlol]

- Get Drivers License in one of those Speed-classes which take a week orso.
- Walk my own dog, not letting my father do it.
- Be a more social Boyfriend( Not knifing down her friends).
- More often to the gym and get back into kickboxing
- No more Red bull :'(
- Getting a job, although my heart hurts typing this.

All is manageable except for the Red Bull, perhaps I'm a fucking sucker for those sexy cans.

[woodentoast]

I didn't bother last year but i've decided a few improvements are needed so;

-Find a job, preferably one I don't hate
-Sort out my driving liscence application and pass by summer
-Put more effort in at sixth form and try to pass my A levels first try

[Prawnatron]

Stop playing on the xbox and laptop constantly.

[TheDean]

Mine:

--Beat Vicki at everything. I fully intend to get a better grade in calculus than her. I know that that's stupid high school drama, but if you knew this bitch you'd fucking have the same resolution I do. She's racist, sexist, and homophobic. And she's better at calculus than me, and this needs to change. (I did beat her at a couple area and district band competitions, which made me so happy).


--Wake up before 9.00 every morning. I love to sleep in, but it makes me unproductive. :(

--Eat more healthily. No moar midnight snacks!

--Get accepted into college.

Yep. Them's my goals.

[HeroinMel]

- Stop shattering myself beyond recognition and making myself really sick when i drink.
- Move back home.
- Get my head sorted out.
- Fall in love/Have a relationship that i actually want to be in.

That's about it really. There's some other things i'd like to happen, but i wont make them resolutions because i know i'm far too lazy to get around to doing it. These are just the things i really want to happen.

[Stitches]

* Quit smoking
* Slow down my weekends and quit being so nocturnal
* Get a better job
* Tone up

T'is all.

[DeanoSpimoni]

-Drink even more Coca Cola

[bono]

- Get a girl to touch my penis voluntarily

Rub some peanut butter on it. I am into day 2 of no smoking and so far so good. Only thing is I think I am still hungover from new years so I dont really have much energy to even think about smoking.

[natalie137]

I managed to accomplish something towards one of mine today by finally buying my teaching course so I can start training up and get a proper job instead of serving meat to strangers. Oh hurrah.

Also I've gone all day without smoking. Double hurrah.

I might actually manage to keep my resolutions this year if I carry on like this.

[thomas30113]

Get a job and read more C&H comics.

[bRainville]

My new years resolutions from last year were kept until about August so I'm determined to try harder this year. I have quite a few though:
1-Eat healthier.
2-Exercise regularly, so as to lose more weight.
3-Pay attention in school and make Dean's List again.
4-Practice my guitar and piano more.
5-Spend more time being happy :]

That last one sounds stupid but little things make me angry, so I guess it could be re-worded as:
5-Work on my anger.

[thomas30113]

Okay, my NEW New Years Resolution is to make an Explosmer friend.

[macaronisheep]

All you guys say "get accepted into college/ university". But here in NZ if you have a half decent year 13 (12th grade/ 7th form) then you're automatically accepted into all the but the most competitive courses, and most of them have an open first semester or first year (after which it is competitive entry to the professional programmes). Vet has a one semester trial, medicine has a whole year of health science first, shared with dentistry, physio, lab science, etc. I feel lucky, I dont have to fight to get in... Just pass.

[Mirrorman]

- Get a girl to touch my penis voluntarily

I'm going with this one.

[I Lick Vaginas]

Hmm.

-Draw more, paint more
-GET A GOD DAMN JOB
-Do outrageously well in Yr 11/start of yr 12

Pretty boring and I can't think of anything else.

[Mr. Wink]

I am going to learn how to juggle. Mainly so when I am bored at work I can grab some lemons or apples or whatnot and distract myself in an entertaining manner.

[Blakjak]

All you guys say "get accepted into college/ university". But here in NZ if you have a half decent year 13 (12th grade/ 7th form) then you're automatically accepted into all the but the most competitive courses, and most of them have an open first semester or first year (after which it is competitive entry to the professional programmes). Vet has a one semester trial, medicine has a whole year of health science first, shared with dentistry, physio, lab science, etc. I feel lucky, I dont have to fight to get in... Just pass.

No shit, that's New Zealand. Since when has anyone expected anything out of New Zealanders other than mediocrity.

My resolutions are to beat every video game I start, and save up enough for a ps3/hooker.

[Powerslideking]

I'm going to start gyming and buy myself a new car.