New Years Resolutons: 2012

[Medusa]

Let's start our resolution list early! If you don't believe in making New Years resolutions, then do you have a wish list for 2012? Projects you want to complete?

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[Medusa]

My 2012 List:

1. Get my raised beds in finally (eyeballing Wolfy! )
2. Be better about mailing Birthday and Thank You cards.
3. Finish organizing the office with shelving and baskets
4. Take a trip to Portland
5. Shop at Walmart much, much less and exchange it for more shopping with local growers
6. Hand make ALL my gifts for Christmas 2012
7. Streamline my work process to allow for more time to myself
8. Call my girlfriends more
9. Eat better
10. Move more

[Skittlesluver]

I would like to visit Machu Picchu (personal)
I would like to finish my first screen play (project)
I would like to learn and play a new sport (physical)
I would like to obtain my Class M license (recreational)
I would like to go bungee jumping (again)
I would like to spend more time with my family and friends (always)

[kittygrrl]

Originally Posted by Skittlesluver

I would like to visit Machu Picchu (personal)

This is on my bucket list

[Corkey]

I can't break 'em if I don't make 'em. Not into self flagellation with stress.

[Ciaran]

My 2012 resolution:

To marry a woman with a great personality, who is warm and compassionate and has lots of money. If I've no luck finding her, I'll settle for a woman with just lots of money.

[Passionaria]

Sending all of you positive energy, and lot's of support with your goals! Get it, get it. I have several but two I will share publicly:

1. To move from Spanglish to bilingual by the end of the year. I have a trade set up with a place here in Austin called Esquina Tango here in Austin. I will work the door for their Tango Milongas and take free Spanish classes. Big plus the teacher is a woman I work with and adore! I'm excited!

2. I used to be a professional dancer. Sadly I lost my way, and a part of my soul with it. This year I will make dance a part of my life again. Social dancing is good enough.

[Vlasta]

Originally Posted by Ciaran

My 2012 resolution:

To marry a woman with a great personality, who is warm and compassionate and has lots of money. If I've no luck finding her, I'll settle for a woman with just lots of money.

I definitely hoping you are joking . It must be painful to wake up next to a person and instead say good morning my love , but good morning show me your checkbook.

[JustJo]

This is my strangest list of resolutions ever, but...

Take care of my mother through spring, and make sure she has the care she needs if and when she goes home....basically see her through her end of life.

Get my son through it too.

Finish editing and publish a book that my son has been nagging me about for a couple years now.

Stick with my journey to living healthier....eat right, and incorporate more exercise.

Stay open to the possibility of love...and never settle for anything less than what I truly want and need.

[Strappie]

I always thought New Years Resolutions were meant to be broken? Not this year for me, I'm going to work on things rather than saying I will do them.

1. I will work harder to quit smoking.

2. I will work on eating better.

3. I will work on getting into shape either with a trainer or on my own.

4. I will work on getting out of the house and not being a hermit.

5. I will work on doing things for myself and not as much for everyone else (then I'll have more time for my things)

I think that is a good start.... to be continued...

[foxyshaman]

1. I will meet one new person a month

2. I will write four hours a week

3. I will get 250 drums together for the Conference

4. I will write a killer key note address

5. I will not to be so nervous about being a key note speaker

[Rockinonahigh]

I'm with Strappie about just working on things..
I'm gonna do my best to lose 48 pounds and reach my goal weight of 200.
Then if I reach my weight goal,try to lose 25 more,if not just do my best to maintain what I have.
I want to just be an all around healther person,if I can get some stablity to my back I would like to go back to work full time.
I will definatly get an new fur kid cause Rowdy hasnt been the same since her buddy passed over.
Be open to more of meeting people that I have been,im not a hermit but just very comfy with things at home.
I may buy a cam corder with cd card so I can load stuff in my puter or find a way to do that so I can send pics to peeps who want one and put some in the gallorie.
I will keep my diabetis in check and more carefull of what I eat.

[midwest chick]

I Love this!!!

1) Continue with healthier lifestyle, lower cholesterol, quit smoking, lose excess weight.

2) Spend more time with family, REALLY be there for them.

3) Quit being as much of a hermit--get out, make friends, meet new people

4) Hit at least 30 amusement parks and rollercoasters this spring/summer Ride until I'm half sick with the excitement and thrill

5) Be as nice to myself as I am to others, actually take the time to make myself happy

6) Be actively engaged with my work, life, friends and family--turn autopilot off for a year, see how that goes

7) Take one of the 'dream' vacations, Alaska, Machu Picchu, Greece, Ireland--one of them will happen this year.

8) Continue to do what makes me feel happy, hiking with the dog, volunteering, making/burning candles, needlework, crochet, cooking for others, falling out of kayaks, dancing in the rain

9) Quit smoking, 'looking' for a relationship, being hard on myself, being hard on others, letting trash fly (uncensored) out of my mouth


Good start, anyway......may have to refine and redefine later

[Gráinne]

I too have several areas to work on:

1. Now that my son and I both have diagnoses of ADD, I need to turn my home into an ADD-friendly environment and to ensure that he has the modifications he needs at school. It was a shock and a stress to learn this, but at least we can help ourselves.

2. I need to rejoin WeightWatchers, with its new program, and get serious about losing weight and getting in shape.

3. I need to not be so avoidant when it comes to my career, and look for a better position.

4. I need to practice far more self-care: breathing, relaxation, yoga, grooming and pampering.

5. I need to have my dream trip (to Russia) planned out for the summer of 2013 by the end of the year-savings going, any tickets and visas I can apply for done, make it more real than just "one day". This is my 50th birthday gift to myself.

6. Related to that, I need to be far more fluent in Russian by the end of the year. I will do this through my workbook and other reading/audio materials.

7. I want to look more seriously for a home, and get out of the apartment. But I won't jump into a house just to move.

8. I want to attend more cultural events-plays, lectures, art exhibits. This includes visiting museums I've wanted to see "one of these days"

9. I need to meet more people, not specifically to date but just to have friends. I tend to isolate too much.

10. I need to attend Reunion and be far more outgoing than I was this year!

[Just_G]

I don't really have resolutions so to speak, but rather, I just have things I will try to do...if I do them; fantastic, if I don't; I will not be hard on myself about it.

I will continue to keep a positive attitude, and I will continue to be thankful for all the wonderful things that happen in my life!

I would love to stay in better touch with my friends all over the country.

I will continue to get stronger and be ready for football season to start in April.

I will continue to communicate honestly and openly.

I will continue to do my best every day at school and try to finish with a perfect GPA!

[Starbuck]

I usually don't make any but this year I have two:

I made a pinky promise with a good friend that we're quitting smoking together

And I'm going to stop dropping the F bomb every time I turn around

Wish me luck!

[Glenn]

[QUOTE=Medusa;488675]Let's start our resolution list early!

I won't harbor any ill will towards my ex Ms.
If I think the material s*** I own is more important than my happiness, Ill dump it.
If I get in any relationship that is toxic, I'll say goodbye, and start over

[HoustonHuny]

I have seen so much death in the last few years of my loved ones that I am determined to live the rest of my life by this poem.

Poem- Slide on into HEAVEN

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave
with the intention of arriving safely
in an attractive and well preserved body,
But rather to skid in sideways,
chocolate in one hand,
wine in the other,
body thoroughly used up,
totally worn out and screaming
"WOO HOO what a ride!"

So light the decorative candles, and use the guest towels, and eat the most fattening desserts, and make those calls, you know the ones, not sure what to say what they will think, just LIVE and have no regrets, act like a fool, put your foot in your mouth, guess what you won't be the first and certaintly not the last.

Live to the fullest of your life.