Resolutions of the New Year Variety. What have you already broken?

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I'll probably go back to the gym again, like I do every year.

I'd also like to play any one of my numerous guitars more, but they're all in storage until we sell the house.

Oh. Selling the house. That's a resolution.

Hm. Maybe I'll start that other webcomic that's going to be fresh and revolutionary.

What about you? What promises will you break by mid January?

Tef

Hmm. Quitting smoking is number one of the list. A few guys at work are on board so we'll see how we go.

I also want to finish more of my projects at home. I'm forever starting projects and then just getting distracted halfway through. I've promised myself no new projects until the majority of my old projects are either finished or gotten rid of

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The good thing about my particular brand of procrastination is that for every 30 projects I dream up, only 1 makes it to the design phase. So far on the list of rambling contemplation:

Buy new house.
Build recording studio.
Soup up a shit car.
Write/record an album.
Learn to draw.
Make an awesome D&D gaming table.

The only thing remotely conceivable on that list is Buy A New House.

Tef

Shit, because of you wanted to restore a car, I've got a WB one tonner you could buy for next to nothing

Blake T

I would say not kill my plants (technically seeds) I got for christmas but I need to water them before new years so I think that technically can't be one.

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Tef wrote:

I've got a WB one tonner you could buy for next to nothing

... don't you fucking tempt me. That was gonna be my first "real" car too, back when the world was young.

Gatsby

Maybe get fitter. I'd like to lose the extra inch I've put on my waist.

Priority though is to earn a "Distinction" in my classes, which is between a 75 and 84 in terms of assessment grading. I was 3 marks off last semester from one in my chosen specialisation, I feel like I can do even better with just a little extra effort.

#pipe

I'm getting kicked out of my share apartment

Moving back in with my folks

Going back on the eating plan that worked for me last year

Running every morning and weights 3 afternoons a week

Save up 5 or 6 grand

Maybe move to Vancouver

Dark Raven X

Lose weight
Earn the respect of my father
Reveal The Lovely Bastard is actually my father
Earn The Lovely Bastard's respect
Watch Scott Pilgrim with The Lovely Bastard
Share a Canadian beer with The Lovely Bastard
Find out how Ted met The Mother

Crimson King

gotta finish that novel

...

gotta start that novel

Cornell002

Lose another 30 pounds (lost 30 since June, then put on 10 since November)
Find a new job
Buy a new car
Put effort into actually utilizing my saving account

Peas

Learn to play a musical instrument
Draw better
Lose weight
Achieving nirvana

Anzekay

Get into uni properly and stay there for a full year without any shit happening.
Start making this game with some friends.
Actually keep writing a blog for more than a month for the first time in roughly 8 years.
Get back into writing fiction again.

I managed to do at least one of this year's NYRs (get my driver's license) hurrah!

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Peas wrote:

Learn to play a musical instrument

real talk: Go to a music store and buy a $50 Ukulele.
Something like this is affordable and will be fine to learn on

Uke is so easy to learn and lots of fun to play. Seriously, if you think of a song you like, most of the time, with a little googling or youtubing, you'll be able to learn and play/sing it in a couple of hours.

Sweeney Tom

Hopefully make NY my new home

Garlic Bread

I will have a new job and my own place again

Somewhere

Somewhere that's not here

WeedLordVegeta

Be better with my money, try to be more accessible

Druhim

You're getting the boot from your share apt Pipe? What happened?

Buttlord

Get on my meds, stay on my meds, masturbate less

RubberAC

quitting smoking

gonna take this bastard head on and punch it in it's stupid face

Buttlord

Did I say less

I meant more

Gonna jerk off twice a day

Garlic Bread

You mean you only jerk off once a day now?

Garlic Bread

Amateur hour up in here

Tef

RubberAC wrote:

quitting smoking

gonna take this bastard head on and punch it in it's stupid face

I had considered starting up a thing here, to see if we had a few people all trying to quit. Maybe we can all try and quit together or something?

The Geek

Convince myself to start working out again.

Get promoted to Controller.

Play more games.

Janson

Controller is a pretty sweet position to be in.

I'd like to:

Help eliminate Mori's credit card debt once and for all (very doable, and we came really close this year - until we had to move and scrounge up an extra month's rent at short notice).
Save some money! (Probably a lot less doable, I hear kids are pretty expensive).

Scudo

get ye apartment

is my goal

Jasconius

Pay back some of my debt.

Buy some non-crappy clothes.

Start doing more social stuff on weekends.

cabsy

Tef wrote:

RubberAC wrote:

quitting smoking

gonna take this bastard head on and punch it in it's stupid face

I had considered starting up a thing here, to see if we had a few people all trying to quit. Maybe we can all try and quit together or something?

I will happily join in just to cheer you guys on if you do this, I'm at a year and two months quit and I still have days when I want to punch a kitten in the face and buy a pack of cigarettes in a rage. To be fair I quit from 2 1/2 packs a day so I guess really I am "doing good" but some days, bleh.

Tef

Oh man, yeah 2 and 1/2 a day must have been a motherfucker. Did you use any pills or anything to help you quit?

vermiculture

my mom hasnt seen me in a year. She came to visit for the holidays and she called me fat, so I guess I will try and lose weight? that isn't a very fun goal. I should resolve to ride in a hot air balloon or something cool.

Bedigunz

Hit up the gym 2-3 times a week
Study for my GMAT (though that will be towards the end of 2012)
Start actually looking to settle down and meet a girl that isn't a hot mess
Start giving a shit about my job (that will probably involve not being on Penny Arcade during work)

Pretty basic resolutions.

Janson

vermiculture wrote:

my mom hasnt seen me in a year. She came to visit for the holidays and she called me fat

Man, my mother only recently stopped doing this to me. The first time she came to America the first thing out of her mouth was not 'hello' but 'well, I see you haven't lost any more weight, yet'

So, you have my sympathies!

WeedLordVegeta

Also, I would very much like to stumble into some fun relationships that are low on committment, so maybe I need to sign up on okcupid

Druhim

mothers say the darnedest things

The Geek

Janson wrote:

Controller is a pretty sweet position to be in.

I'm on track to get it probably within the first half of the new year.

skettios

* Get a new job
* Move to Seattle
* Draw more
* Make sure I paint all the minis in my copy of Super Dungeon Explore
* Maintain my current weight [suppose I could lose a bit more, but I'm happy with what I'm at]

cabsy

Tef wrote:

Oh man, yeah 2 and 1/2 a day must have been a motherfucker. Did you use any pills or anything to help you quit?

I did two months of wellbutrin, which for me this go round was great with helping me quit, awful in terms of I couldn't sleep and I got very irrationally irritable. Like I quit taking wellbutrin because I was seriously worried I was going to hurt a family member or pet in a fit of rage. I also at the time lived with a smoker and now live with two smokers who have a lot of smoker friends so sometimes I know the temptation to go back is just a social thing.

I guess I can put some resolutions here too
-get into therapy
-get a second job
-start going to the gym regularly

Shabooty

gotta gotta get a job

Hobnail

Gotta fit into 32 waist jeans

hahahahahaha

WeedLordVegeta

I'm a 30 inch jeans guy