New Years Resolutions?

[Bluntchop]

Got any?

Myself am trying to cut back on fatty food and eat more healthy stuff. Not that I have to watch my weight or anything but I do eat way too much junk.

Sooooo lots of wholewheat, fresh vegetables & fruit for me in 2004 :( ;)

[crappertay]

Fifth year in the row...

I WILL go to the gym and work off my beer gut... no really this year I will.

Plans to hit the beach in the summer so that may lend more motivation to this year's quest.

[Bluntchop]

Fifth year in the row...
I WILL go to the gym and work off my beer gut

... and he shall become (literally) The Tayminator ... or not :D

[Link]

I'm in the same boat Tay. I've got plans for a vacation to Florida, so I'll have motivation too.

[Valkary]

I HIGHLY recomend the Atkins diet.

Worked (mostly) for me, and everyone I know who has tied it has lost LOTS of weight.

[Brian]

To destroy everyone who says "My new years resolution is to not have a new years resolution. HAHAHA, I'm so witty"

[crappertay]

Val, I don't need to burn off weight, my weight's fine, it's the ring o' beer I'm gonna have to burn off and convert into muscle of some sort.

[Josh]

I have 2.

1. Get myself in shape for the first time in my entire life... work out every freakin day, stop drinking soda. I don't really WANT to do this, but I have to for my health.

2. Find a new job. Preferably in a different field from Engineering, but ANY PLACE ELSE. THIS YEAR I MUST GET OUT!!!

[Abscynthe]

I have a few. They're pretty much the same as last year.

1. I've gained almost 10lbs since I quit smoking (43 days today! Go me!), so I resolve to hit the gym more often and eat healthy.

2. Get more motivated and get some of the projects on my list done this year. This includes the house!

3. Learn to play an instrument. My husband bought me a violin for Christmas, so I will be learning to play that.

4. Finish a rough draft of my book.

[Bordick]

:bump

January first I will attempt to axe my worst vice


:new3

[Luthien Tinuviel]

1. I want to lose 10 pounds or more. I am a pudge :D

2. I resolve to be cleaner, and to pick up my room more often.

[garfield hates mondays]

Originally posted by Bordick
January first I will attempt to axe my worst vice


:new3

I suggest being unconcious for the first two weeks. :)

me:
to not start smoking again. I haven't done it for over two months now:) I just started back at work today though so I'll probably be smoking by the end of the week:lol

[Luthien Tinuviel]

Don't start smoking again, smeags. It's a gross habit.

[Bordick]

It is indeed gross.....but goddamn it is it hard to stop. I haven't been more adamant about kicking it than I have in the past couple months. My record's a week, but I so need to cut it permanantly.

[garfield hates mondays]

sorry.

[garfield hates mondays]

lol, this thread makes me want to smoke! :lol

I was doing so good too! I need a new job...

[Luthien Tinuviel]

smeags, if you smoke even one cig, I will be very upset with you. You can do it.

[garfield hates mondays]

ok.

[Into]

As I scrolled through this thread, I lit up a cigarrette.:bdead :bsad


Ah, **** it.:new3

:lol

[B1ade Runner]

My only resolution is to use profanity less...



































...you were expecting some profanity, weren't you?

[crappertay]

I have a three point plan to happiness in 2005:

1. Get fit
2. Get laid
3. Get a decent job

Can't lose

:bapprove

[Rowan]

Aims for 2005 (each one to be achieved before moving onto the next):

1. Get a job

2. Move out

3. Find out how serious Mr Phant is about moving here

4. Get fit (no more losing weight/trying to lose weight by dieting alone, actual fitness is something I've never achieved and really want to try for)

4a. Stop substituting chocolate/icecream for sex whilst waiting for my beloved to get here.

5. Plan a certain event for 2006 (or 2007 depending how quickly reach number five on a list of tough aims)

[fafhrd]

1. figure out if I'm going for PhD or not, and if not, get teaching job. Or do gov't work. Whatever, as long as it's not retail.

2. get a girlfriend and get laid.

3. go to as many baseball games as I can.

Fafhrd

[Sharky]

1) Be less cynical.

Ah, New Year's resolutions suck.

[Topcat]

I wish you good luck and much willpower on your attempt to quit smoking, Bordick. I never did, but I watched my mom struggle to give it up on many an occasion.

As for me, my new year's resolution is to make it through this pregancy with my sanity intact. I was in pretty doggone good shape before this so I hope I can get back into shape pretty fast.

I miss alcohol, but I can't lie about how much better I feel without it. I'm wavering on giving it up altogether or just being a bit more moderate.

Anyway, I'm off to celebreate the new year's arrival with good friends and a bottle of bubbly red cranberry juice!

-Sandy

[Into]

Never took you for a smoker or alcoholic, Sandy.;) Heh.

[Arctic]

-finish some things i should have finished last year.

-start some things i should have started last year.

-read some things i meant to read last year. and read more in general.

-get preggers. we've been thinking about it and this may be the year. or not. we'll see.

-adopt a new dog/puppy and/or volunteer at the animal shelter.

[Promithcuous]

To go another year without smoking.
21st will be 1 year without a siggy.

[Wiggum]

I'm with Arctic.
Well, except for the last two.

[B1ade Runner]

I actually managed to break my resolution within a couple of hours.

But you know what? It's really hard not to curse, and even harder to go from cursing at dinner to not curing five hours later. I had a couple of slip-ups, but I really want to take it seriously.

[Topcat]

Originally posted by Into
Never took you for a smoker or alcoholic, Sandy.;) Heh.

I said that wrong. I have never smoked. Way too fond of :beer tho.

-Sandy

[Wiggum]

Originally posted by B1ade Runner
I actually managed to break my resolution within a couple of hours.

But you know what? It's really hard not to curse, and even harder to go from cursing at dinner to not curing five hours later. I had a couple of slip-ups, but I really want to take it seriously.
**** THAT!
WHAT ARE YOU SOME KIND OF ****ING PUSSY!
****ER!
;)

[B1ade Runner]

Damn it, man, help me out here!

[Wiggum]

Damnit Jim! I'm a doctor not a vocabulary rehabilitationist!

[Promithcuous]

You bunch of tallywhackers.

[B1ade Runner]

Originally posted by Wiggum
Damnit Jim! I'm a doctor not a vocabulary rehabilitationist! :lol

[Matt]

My new year's resolution is to give up
soft drinks again. I did it once for 5 months, we'll see how long it lasts this time. :lol

I need to lose about 20 lbs. I'm trying to get back into running shape. But with grad school, work, this place, and most importantly, My family, it's tough to make time. But I'll just start getting up earlier to do it.

I also need to limit the cursing. I shall start small. I shall eliminate the f-bomb! :)

[Luthien Tinuviel]

I resolve to stop flipping the bird whenever people piss me off.

[Promithcuous]

Good luck with that one.

My resolutions:

1. Continue not smoking, since I quit last year

2. Cut down on drinking.

3. Stop kidding myself and others. Therefore, please ignore 2.

4. Have a shitload of fun, and especially on this board.

Happy ****ing New year everyone

[Sharky]

And I hope not to be a threadkiller for '05.

[B1ade Runner]

Just for the record, not cursing at all is very, very difficult.

:banghead

[Abscynthe]

I resolve:

To continue with the non-smoking. It's been almost 1 year and 2 months so we're doing well so far.

To continue with my newly-adopted healthy lifestyle. I've lost 10 pounds so far; my goal is to be 135 by March 18th. That and my husband said he'd give me $300 for new clothes if I hit my goal by March.

To be more proficient in playing the violin and continue my lessons

To be more active: crafts, dance, finishing projects, finishing the house.

[NeRFBaLLOfLoVe]

1. Stop smoking (for real this time)
2. Get a job and KEEP it
3. Graduate from community college and move on to a four-year college
4. Not make the same mistakes I made in 2004!!!!

[legna]

1)Find out why my b/f's mother hates me and fix the situation
2)Find some time to Volunteer at a hospital or at a shelter of some sort.
3)Like everyone else, I want to loose a few pounds. Pants are starting to get too tight again!

[Promithcuous]

Originally posted by legna
1)Find out why my b/f's mother hates me and fix the situation
Answer: you are stealing her little boy away from here, and since no woman will ever be good enough for him, neither will you. That's the way a lot of mothers think.

[Rowan]

Originally posted by Mithrandir
Answer: you are stealing her little boy away from here, and since no woman will ever be good enough for him, neither will you. That's the way a lot of mothers think.

This is what people keep telling me too, although personally I think in my particular situation its because shes something of a viscious bitch (no offense honey, I know shes the only mother you have, but you have to admit she hated me a very long time before she met me)

[Promithcuous]

That's the other possibility

[legna]

Well- she used to introduce me as her "daughter-in-law" when we first started dating. Now she thinks I am the devil.

[Rowan]

Originally posted by MrsPhantazmazh
Aims for 2005 (each one to be achieved before moving onto the next):

1. Get a job

2. Move out

3. Find out how serious Mr Phant is about moving here

4. Get fit (no more losing weight/trying to lose weight by dieting alone, actual fitness is something I've never achieved and really want to try for)

4a. Stop substituting chocolate/icecream for sex whilst waiting for my beloved to get here.

5. Plan a certain event for 2006 (or 2007 depending how quickly reach number five on a list of tough aims)

UPDATE: END OF MONTH ONE

goals achieved: none
jobs applied for: 2
interviews got: 1 outcome, humiliation of being unable to find the place, admittedly had in fact found it, but appeared locked and had a sign which said vacuum repairs, definitely not the company had applied to.

Marks for achievement: 2%
Marks for effort: 1%
Overall mark: total failure 0%

[crappertay]

At least you got an interview... I'm still waiting... :lol

[Josh]

1. Find a way out of my job (hey, this one was here last year!)
2. Buy a house
3. Start smoking

[Abscynthe]

Originally posted by Josh
1. Find a way out of my job (hey, this one was here last year!)
2. Buy a house
3. Start smoking

Start smoking so you have the satisfaction of quitting smoking?

UPDATE ON MINE:

I have continued with the nonsmoking; I think this one is going to stick.

I have continued (somewhat) with my diet; I'm closer to my goal but I'll tell ya, it's awfully boring and I'm considering jumping ship with this whole diet thing.

I have continued with my lessons, but due to all the other shit I have to do, am not getting more proficient.

Perhaps I should have made a resolution to make more time.

[Josh]

I didn't say I was going to start smoking tobacco. j/k

Actually, my #3 should be... stand up for what I believe in

I'm not good at that.

[garfield hates mondays]

i miss smoking. really wish it wasn't so unhealthy:(

[Abscynthe]

Originally posted by smeagol wants fishess
i miss smoking. really wish it wasn't so unhealthy:(

*sigh* I know what you mean. I was very ready quit; otherwise I wouldn't have made it this far, but there are days when I just wish I could go out to my car and smoke a pack.

[garfield hates mondays]

I don't really get cravings that much... I just miss how cool I looked.

[Abscynthe]

THAT is definitely one thing I don't miss. I found some old pictures of myself, and I definitely did not look cool with a cigarette.

And the cravings really don't come any more; after all it's been over a year now. But every so often I'll have just one ****ed up day, and that's the first thing that pops into my mind. It lasts all of 30 seconds, though.

[Rowan]

Originally posted by MrsPhantazmazh
Aims for 2005 (each one to be achieved before moving onto the next):

1. Get a job

2. Move out

3. Find out how serious Mr Phant is about moving here

4. Get fit (no more losing weight/trying to lose weight by dieting alone, actual fitness is something I've never achieved and really want to try for)

4a. Stop substituting chocolate/icecream for sex whilst waiting for my beloved to get here.

5. Plan a certain event for 2006 (or 2007 depending how quickly reach number five on a list of tough aims)

UPDATE: END OF MONTH TWO

goals achieved: one(ish)
a temp job with a two week contract and a three week contract after a two week break doesnt exactly fulfill this aim, but its a big improvement :)

Marks for achievement: 10%
Marks for effort: 15%
Overall mark: small victory 12%

[Matt]

Originally posted by Matt
My new year's resolution is to give up
soft drinks again. I did it once for 5 months, we'll see how long it lasts this time. :lol

I need to lose about 20 lbs. I'm trying to get back into running shape. But with grad school, work, this place, and most importantly, My family, it's tough to make time. But I'll just start getting up earlier to do it.

I also need to limit the cursing. I shall start small. I shall eliminate the f-bomb! :)


Hmm.. I have given up soft drinks but I don't think I started that until the the first week in February.

I've lost close to 30 pounds and I'm running again.

Dropping the F-Bomb needs to be re-addressed. :lol

[Arctic]

Originally posted by Arctic
-finish some things i should have finished last year.
i'm the closest to being finished that i've ever been and expect to be finished sometime within a few months.

-start some things i should have started last year.
done. and quite well i might add.

-read some things i meant to read last year. and read more in general.
not done, but pending on completion of item number one.

-get pregnant. we've been thinking about it and this may be the year. or not. we'll see.
men are fickle. :p we might take a trip to new zealand next january instead.

-adopt a new dog/puppy and/or volunteer at the animal shelter.
done. meet Sethra Lavode and Sparky:

<img src="http://www.wintermoonlight.com/arctic/sands.jpg" width="300">

[Abscynthe]

Awww! They are so adorable! How old are they?

[Arctic]

:D

sethra (black) is 3 months and sparky (tan) is 3 years.

[legna]

So THOSE are mini-artics ;)

[Arctic]

as it turns out, yes i suppose they are. :lol

never thought they'd be so cute. or furry.

[Promithcuous]

I'm curious about the name Sethra. Do you know the origin of it, or what it means?

[Promithcuous]

Originally posted by Mithrandir
Good luck with that one.

My resolutions:

1. Continue not smoking, since I quit last year

2. Cut down on drinking.

3. Stop kidding myself and others. Therefore, please ignore 2.

4. Have a shitload of fun, and especially on this board.

1. Check
2. See 3
3. Check
4. Check

[Arctic]

Originally posted by Mithrandir
I'm curious about the name Sethra. Do you know the origin of it, or what it means?
actually we got it from a literary series called The Viscount of Adrilankha by Steven Brust. sethra lavode is undead dark enchantress who always wears black.

otherwise though i think the name has greek origins, but i'm not sure.

good job on those resolutions, mith :D. especially number 1.

[Promithcuous]

I'd go for Egyptian origin, personally.
Both Seth and Ra are Egyptian deities.