Resolutions

[cosmolinguist]

Various friends have done this and I liked the idea: what should be my new year resolutions? Feel free to suggest anything at all, serious or silly, and I'll pick some I like.

Comments

[pseudomonas]

My new year resolution for the last few years, which I recommend to anyone, is to make more time to do creative things; in my case that's largely sketching and cooking; but writing or music or flower-arranging or whatnot count just as much.

[cosmolinguist]

Well the resolution I do have, because it has to happen this year, is Finish the Damn Kickstarter Book.

I was hoping to have it done this year. But things keep happening that I have to process before I can write it! (But my friends have explained to me it's a fine Kickstarter tradition to have things take a lot longer than expected.)

So hopefully there will be lots of time devoted to creating that.

[pseudomonas]

Hope it all gets done & dusted - and that you find some time for purely discretionary creation too :)

[cosmolinguist]

Writing here is discretionary creative, for me. :) But I've been blogging forever so that doesn't really count as a resolution.

A mixed bag

[lilysea]

Get more sleep

Drink more water

Eat more fruit and vegetables

Read more books

Watch more TV

See more films in cinemas

Spend more time doing things that make you smile

Spend more time doing things that make you laugh

Re: A mixed bag

[cosmolinguist]

All these things sound good, though I use TV mostly for when I'm too tired for anything else...hence a lot of shows about UFOs and other silly stuff!

[hunningham]

One of the best ones I ever made for myself was "One Film a Week". Didn't quite manage it but I had fun trying and saw so many great films I would not have otherwise even tried.

This year I'm thinking of watch more television (yes seriously, I am not being ironic here).

Or perhaps once a fortnight (weekly would be too much) I will go out and be a sociable person and talk to other people. That's a bit scary (for me) and might lead to distress and general flailing.

[cosmolinguist]

Films can be hard work for me unless they're new enough to have audio description. Sometimes even then. :)

More than one person I know has the goal of watching more TV. It sounds funny but I totally can see it (again it's not something I do a lot of -- we don't actually even have a TV, but we have Netflix and Amazon so I count that).

[hunningham]

More thinks, best damn New Year Resolution I EVER came across was "This year I will eat more cheese".

Context is lost in depths of the interwebs, but I think of that person fondly and offer you their resolution.

[cosmolinguist]

I love cheese so much I think if I ate any more I might turn into cheese. :)

But yes it is a great one and has made me smile.

[jesse_the_k]

Eat more beets!

[nou]

Visit a railway station beginning with "P", and take a selfie with the station sign.

[cosmolinguist]

Hee! I love this! I'm already thinking of places...Penrith's nice! Preston's easy but not otherwise exciting. I'd hope for somewhere like Penzance...

[nou]

I was wondering what station I'd pick, and then I realised I'll be passing through Partick when I do a railway line walk in Glasgow in February, so yeah :) (I have no idea what Partick is like.)

[meepettemu.livejournal.com]

Wear something from your 'mostly not-worn' clothes section on a weekly/monthly basis?

[cosmolinguist]

Most of those are dressy clothes I used to wear to work. Id be happy to have a reason to wear them again!

[meepettemu.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[prinzessbtrfly.livejournal.com]

Post regularly on lj, not for others but for the social interaction and your own mental health! !

[cosmolinguist]

I'm trying to! It really is good for my mental health. :)

[prinzessbtrfly.livejournal.com]

i KNEW you'd love it ;) lol