monthly resolutions: january

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i dont usually do new years resolutions, and ive decided against them again this year, too vast, too vague, plus new years resolutions always tend to be about abstinence, about stopping something...mine are more 'targets', things i want done, where i want to be. so i am going for achievable monthly targets this time out, and here are januarys:

1. keep room in a suitable state, especially getting rid of the horrible old sofa i inherited
2. bedtime at 11 on schoolnights
3. get the rest of my photos onto cd and backed up
4. be in the black with next paycheck
5. buy a rug
6. buy a midi controller keyboard
7. pass cisco exam
8. make sure all 8 weekend days are productive in some way (hangover/comedown is acceptable excuse provided i have had decent night out)
9. look at a couple of houses at end of month so i can think about what i want to do next

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 3 January 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

i. finish one of three books i am currently writing (won't happen)
ii. finish one of (i think) six FT pieces i am "currently" writing (may happen)
iii. get shelves up and arrange for mum's dad's piano to arrive at my flat and be taken up the stairs by powerful young men (must happen)
iv. organise archives u&k dear god no
v. be more diligent answering emails etc

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 3 January 2003 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Great idea!
Ok.
This month I will:
1. Go on more walks.
2. Pay more bills.
3. Organize my closet/dresser so that I can actually find what I want.
4. Make myself go get glasses because I can't see for shit.
5. Oh, yes. And put away all my xmas decorations for god's sake.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 3 January 2003 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

1. spend less time at ILX (might happen).
2. get enough results to get a PhD (won't happen).
3. Finish listening to the pile of records before getting another pile of records (may happen).
4. make tapes for three ILXORS (its this weekend or never).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 3 January 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Clean room (must happen)
2. update blog every working day (no reason why not, which has never stopped me before)
3. maybe start learning guitar (might be tricky)
4. errrrr.....

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 3 January 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

1. get my 4 mile time down to under 27 minutes (current PB = 27.12)
2. finish a new piece for FT
3. try to be a bit more productive at work
4. enjoy my last month of having any free time at all until Dec 03 - I'm starting a part-time course at college in Feb, as well as working full-time.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 3 January 2003 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

1. finish making up flat pack furniture so I can -
2. unpack boxes and put stuff away
3. keep new house clean and tidy
4. find the nearest swimming pool and start going regularly
5. stop living above my means

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 3 January 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely be in the brown with next paycheck?

1. pass exams
2. pass exams
3. PLEASE I REALLY NEED TO PASS THESE EXAMS
4. stop feeling guilty about anything and everything.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 3 January 2003 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Good luck with your Cisco exams, Gareth - surefire way to get minted......

― SittingPretty, Friday, 3 January 2003 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Resolutions?

1) Try to not end up penniless at the end of the month.
2) Spend a tad more time on ILX than I have.
3) Finish the 5 books I couldn't help starting at the same time.
4) Indulge myself a bit more (some CDs are calling my name that I still haven't got.)
5) Be more consistent in answering text messages and emails.

and yes....

6) Try to keep my room a bit neater.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Friday, 3 January 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

4. enjoy my last month of having any free time at all until Dec 03 - I'm starting a part-time course at college in Feb, as well as working full-time.

Congrats, Doc. I'm sure you'll do just fine;>

Gareth, you'll ace those exams....then I can have you tutor me when I'm ready to take mine;>

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Friday, 3 January 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

1) get a job
2) get a job
3) get a job
4) get a job
5) get a job
6) get a job
7) get a job
8) get a job
9) get a job
10) earn some money, pay my rent and not end up sleeping rough by february

― kate, Friday, 3 January 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

1. find a new source of income that actually requires me to use at least one new part of my brain
2. save up for a trip
3. go to the gym 3x a week
4. go somewhere on martin luther king day (toronto tix are $96 roundtrip, hmmm)
5. send clips to at least 3 new editors, just to see what happens (ie get over fear of rejection because it's doing no one any good)

― maura (maura), Friday, 3 January 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Start writing ground breaking comic novel (ie rehash and finish "dead dude in a freezer")
2. Don't go on ILX at work!
3. Read at least 3 books
4. Don't buy too many CD's, listen to thy innervoice when it advises against purchase
5. Drink more water

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 3 January 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

6. Write at least one thing for NYLPM a week, and try and make them a bit more hip.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 3 January 2003 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Every monthly resolution for every month until I finally follow through...

GET MY SHIT TOGETHER

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 3 January 2003 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

1) update my website (may actually happen he said guardedly)

2) get paid for writing something, somewhere (probably won't happen)

3) determine whether a relation of Mark S was broadcasting on BBC schools radio in January 1962 (may well happen)

4) get somewhere with MY BOOK (could happen in a perfect world but ...)

5) regain self-confidence and self-satisfaction (with luck etc etc)

― R"P"C (robin carmody), Monday, 6 January 2003 06:11 (twenty-two years ago)

1) Find Apartment

2) finish two FT peices

3) Email Shawn w. peice

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 6 January 2003 06:24 (twenty-two years ago)

**Congrats, Doc. I'm sure you'll do just fine;>**

Thanks, Nicole!! But I PHEAR this course as there are EXAMS!! I have not done written exams since 1983.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 6 January 2003 08:56 (twenty-two years ago)

1 decide whether to go back to uni
2 find a job in the meantime and get wonged out baby
3 write something, maybe start blog
5 haircut
6 run in am, anything to start a regime of some sort
7 make sure i always look pretty

― zemko (bob), Monday, 6 January 2003 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

1 start eating sensibly (worked then derailed by saturday disaster)
2 finish 2002 retro on FT (nearly there)
3 put up focus group (about halfway)
3 put up 102 beats that part 2 (you never know)
4 clean room (ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO DO THIS)
5 pay outstanding bills (see 4)
6 organise several pending FT special things (well one at least)
7 be a bit more visibly useful at work

see you on the 1st feb

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 6 January 2003 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Make an effort to stay in touch with friends (esp overseas ones) and not wait until next December to realise that, as I write out the Christmas cards, there are some people who I have not spoken to/written to for a whole year. Start by updating email and snail-mail address lists.

2. Enrol in a yoga class

3. Drink a litre of water every day

4. Buy new curtains for the bedroom

― C J (C J), Monday, 6 January 2003 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

4. Make myself go get glasses because I can't see for shit.
Woo hoo! Already done with a fifth of my Jan. resolutions! Got glasses Saturday. Very snazzy.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 6 January 2003 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

2. bedtime at 11 on schoolnights

Ha! ha ha ha ha. We'll see.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 6 January 2003 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

well yes anna, but that only refers to nights when i stay in, any future trash/nagnagnag/russianbar/pub type things dont count, i am allowed out late on those nights

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 6 January 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Gareth you're making this up as you go along.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 6 January 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

1. To stop getting sick. I mean, for fuk's sake!

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 6 January 2003 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

wahoo! I did it! A whole day at work and I didn't even look at ILX!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 6 January 2003 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Bills 2/3 sorted.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 6 January 2003 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

1) get a few degrees more flexible (toward an ultimate goal of doing a split!)
2) lose 8 pounds (may not happen)
3) run 3x or 4x a week
4) get back to playing guitar
5) save at least half my tutoring paychecks

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 6 January 2003 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Have a housewarming party.
2. Settle the final bills from the old place.
3. Not go insane with the work crunch.
4. Musicmusicmusic.
5. Start rewriting Complex with an idea towards formal publication.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 6 January 2003 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah and get together with a couple of friends i haven't seen in several months.

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 6 January 2003 23:27 (twenty-two years ago)

have asked Mark S the burning question detailed in 3) above (see 1962 thread)

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Go to London.
2. Make the switch from Gilmore back to Buffy.
3. See Johnny Marr at the Mercury Lounge.
4. Buy boots.
5. Get highlights.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 05:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Refresh! How is this going? My resolutions are in tatters, I have written nothing, am presently at 1 and a half books, have bought 10 CDs already, etc.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 19 January 2003 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

but I suppose I have drunk more water than usual.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 19 January 2003 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Not accomplished one single damned one of them. :-( I suppose I've got a week and a half, but seems unlikely.

― kate, Sunday, 19 January 2003 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't failed in any of mine, but that was because I had the foresight to not make any, oh except of course to not ever in any way split infinitives, but that's easy to continually keep.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 19 January 2003 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Let's see:
1. Go on more walks. whoops! It's been so fuckin cold though! I'll go one tomorrow night...
2. Pay more bills. yes, check!
3. Organize my closet/dresser so that I can actually find what I want. tried to do this, but then bought more stuff, so...
4. Make myself go get glasses because I can't see for shit.check! I actually wear them EVERY time I drive anywhere or watch movies.
5. Oh, yes. And put away all my xmas decorations for god's sakecheck!

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate fulfilled nine resolutions just like that! Yay! :-)

One through four done for me. Five will be February's. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

My resolutions have picked up a bit lately.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Kick Ass

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

In february I am going to compose an opus on pocket music.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

february:
1) lose remaining 6 of those 8 pounds
2) do more music stuff
3) get together with liv at some point

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

February needs its own thread!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I've lost five pounds which is good. But I broke the 'Don't have sex until you get a job" resolution. Which is bad (yet good).

― rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Rosemary, you tart!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I've pretty much stuck to every resolution that I made and my life is in tatters! Something is wrong with this picture.

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I do feel very *in control* though. Pah!

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I went to London:) I saw Johnny Marr at the Bowery not the Mercury (pretty good) but I didn't fulfill any of the others. I made super easy and fun resolutions so as not to be hard on myself and I can't even keep them. And I fear that tonight I will watch the Gilmores, sigh. What mad antics will they get up to?

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

1. keep room in a suitable state, especially getting rid of the horrible old sofa i inherited

quite successful. tho i decided to keep the sofa just in case

2. bedtime at 11 on schoolnights

erm, miserable failure! been going to be around 1. its not so bad if ive gone out, but no excuse if ive actually stayed in and gone to bed that late

3. get the rest of my photos onto cd and backed up

done

4. be in the black with next paycheck

done

5. buy a rug

done. got two in fact

6. buy a midi controller keyboard

on its way

7. pass cisco exam

didnt take. im a bit further on with my study though, so its imminent

8. make sure all 8 weekend days are productive in some way
(hangover/comedown is acceptable excuse provided i have had decent night out)

not bad...

3: recovered from Andys birthday. did a bit of shopping with ed and suzy and got some stuff i needed
4: went to the takashi murakami exhibition at the serpentine, and then for coffee with nalini. then to embassy bar with new potential flatmate
10: 9 hours overtime (thats the next NYC trip paid for!). chris birthday fap in evening
11: hangover bad style (failure!)
17/18: mary and felicity stayed for weekend
24: explored hoxton and de beauvior and got a scanner and, like, scanned things
25: felt ill, but managed a trip to westbourne park and notting hill

9. look at a couple of houses at end of month so i can think about what i want to do next

in pipeline. not looked at any yet though. difficult to find the time at the moment

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

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