I am quite anxious to close the book on 2003, because it has been a disaster largely of my own making. So this is how I will (not plan to, but will) start off '04 on the right note.
A rigid daily schedule to allow for adequate studying and everything else. Goal: Get back above (a certain grade point average)
The gym, at least 5x a week. Goal: be in shape
Get better at playing the tinwhistle. Goal: rolls
Anyone else?
notice: I just might drag this thread up in a year’s time to see how we all did. I know I sure didn’t keep any of my 2003 resolutions.
Having made it to age 39, I long ago stopped making resolutions. I never keep them, and there’s so much room for improvement that I wouldn’t know where to begin!
I resolve to post at least one actual whistle-related comment in a thread within the next year. (And since I used the word “whistle” in that sentence, I consider my resolution fulfilled.)
No, no, Robin…I foresaw that and changed the wording to “within the next year” - meaning, from the moment I typed that sentence to one year from that moment.
A visit to Chuck E Cheese on a Saturday: The most effective form of birth control. (An observation made by my then childless bro-in-law, who now, 15 yrs later, is expecting a “surprise” baby–their 3rd.)
Resolutions? I will dive deeply back into my book project after the first. It’s hard to immerse myself in my fictional world in the month leading up to Christmas.
:roll: In about 20 years, if you are lucky. I hope you enjoy never getting enough sleep (even after they leave the nest!) because I haven’t slept good since my firstborn.
My ex couldn’t breast feed him, so I was the formula mixer bottle warmer feeder guy for the nights as I was out of school for the summer.
I resolve that I will quit worrying about them and sleep more.
That will be broken the first road trip/flight/whatever…
On the employee bulletin board in the back there is a scrawled note at the top, “If you want to make God laugh make plans.” The same can go for resolutions.
I finally came up with my resolution for the new year today at the library. I resolve not to rack up fines higher than the $38.25 I just shelled out. I thought I’d turned that DVD back in! Stupid Charlie Chaplin.
Ouch, Cara - cheaper for you to have kept it and bought them a new copy?!
I’ve made a fair old list of revolutions and love looking back over last years’ to see how I did. And the answer is pretty well this year - other than my goal of never eating the same kind of meal 2 days running … I am such a lazy-git-cook.
2003 was a complete fiasco as far as my general plans went, so I’m not making any more ‘plan’-revolutions … but I am determined to average an hour a day of whistle practice in '04, come hell or angry neighbours. And I am also decided that since there appear to be sessions near me almost every night of the week, I’m going to get me along to a few, and at some time in the year, play in one.
