Lose weight, exercise more. Not very original.

To shift the work-life balance away from work- by working smarter. Hoped-for byproducts are more music, more reading, a cleaner house, more exercise, more sexing.

Might not be under my control, but- to have a baby in the next couple of years.

I'm going to take a class in something unrelated to my current job.
And either start looking for a new job or make sure I get a raise/real promotion in this one.

* Polish and submit at least one poem for real publication. (Instead of just bitching at myself about not actually working to try and be all writerly and shit. This is the holdover from 2009, sadly.)

* Do all of the drills (including zills and the full choreography) from this DVD. (The biggest part of this is going to be developing the stamina to do the whole thing straight through since I'm so out of shape, heh.)

* And I'm still working on #3 for the year. I should have a school goal here for balance but I'm not sure what to do. Or I might do something about independence or finances or something. I don't know, I've got until Thursday to come up with something. :-/

1. I am not reading any self-help books or listening to any self-help podcasts in 2010. Self-help has helped me in many ways but I tend to think too much and obsess about what I'm not doing right. It's a lot of information to take in and when I don't implement the behaviors that I think I should be implementing I beat myself up. I will resolve to be okay with life, and who I am, and read lots of stuff that makes me happy.

2. Lose weight, exercise more. Same here. I have a membership to the Y that I don't use enough. I am going to make it a regular hangout. I basically have a six-month goal to look fabulous by summertime. I need to come up with some concrete steps. Maybe something like: Working out at the YMCA 5x/week, recording caloric intake daily on FitDay, consuming 1500-1600 calories per day, etc. I want to get back to Bikram yoga but it is so very expensive. We will see.

3. I have a lot of other little ones that may or may not happen: 1) Shower as soon as waking up, instead of lounging in pajamas for half the day. 2) Eat out less 3) Try new recipes 4) Live in the moment 5) Spend more time outdoors. 6) Plant vegetables

Might not be under my control, but- to have a baby in the next couple of years.

altolinguistic, I can't recall, are you in a relationship? If not, it's totally under your control.

Oh wait, you're married. Nevermind. The decision may involve some compromise after all!

*PMs rainbaby persuasive suggestions*

(Or should that be suggestive persuasions?)

Kick ass at my two classes at commie college, which has nothing to do with it being a new year, just something I need to do to help get into V-School.

Other than that, probably start going to shows again. I haven't been to any since moving back to Oklahoma, and I miss it a lot. There are a few coming to town early this year on weekend-nights. I really should go, if I have the time/energy.

Me too about the weight loss. I joined the mefi group on daily burn. That's about it, really.

To not run out of money, and to not worry about running out of money.

I'm gonna be so stingy, I'm piggybacking on TPS's resolution.

None, really, but I've been doing some "reassessment" of habits, patterns, etc. I turn 45 this year and so there are things changing in my life- concerning my mom's health, my career, even more mundane things like some (serious) work that needs to get done on my house.

I've always been bad to kind of let things creep up for years and years until they become an emergency. I don't "look ahead" very well, so since my 30s I've tried to deliberately pay more attention to what's going on in my life and not just coast along so much. The new year is a good time for me to do that, I find, esp. since my birthday is not long after, so I'm starting my own new year around the same time.

I resolve to drink more booze, have more sex, and generally have more good times.

not a fuckin' thing.

Year of forgiveness for grievances.

Move away from god-forsaken urban blight of traffic, absence of parks (driving car to outdoors/nature/park = suck), steep hills, and windy part of city. Gas sucking abyss of urban ick.

Move back closer to downtown, where the winds don't blow, and I can ride my bike to work, grocery, bank, post office, library, coffee shop, view wildlife (do homeless count as wildlife?), sit in park and work on communication with squirrels, drink beer in park, loiter around downtown and spend money (Cop: What are you doing? Me: Paying taxes. Would you like to see some receipts of my area purchases? Cop; appearing angry, stumped, irritated: What are you doing here? Me: I'm going to call 911, you are beginning to scare me. Cop: calls dispatch, sergeant shows up, tells him to calm down. Me: rides bike down block, watches until cop leaves; rolls into Rendevous and has beers.), make even more money than in '09, buy small condo, get back into hard hard shape, get 52" monitor for my visually impaired vision, catch, cook, and eat a trout streamside, and blah blah blah more often.

Get Westy to where I live and buy set of Blizzaks for the front and studded for the rear.

And of couse; kill a bear. With my bare hands. Arrrgh!

Read some of these blogs and take a computer networking class. I enjoy working in construction as it is great to have a job but I do miss doing research and am looking forward to some classroom learning!

Oh wait, you're married. Nevermind. The decision may involve some compromise after all!

Decision's made (we both want one) but attempts have been fruitless so far. As a resolution, it's not the greatest. More of a hope, really.

Do more for world peace. Seriously.