Unusual Resolutions?

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Cajungal

Cajungal

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99% of people I talk to want to lose weight this year...or quit smoking. Come on, let's get creative! For those who choose to make resolutions, does anyone have any that don't come up often?

You can talk about the regular ones too. I was just curious if anyone had made any that were sort of different. I generally don't make them, but this year I have 4 short stories that I'd like to submit to magazines.
 
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Jiarn

I've already been on my losing weight streak, yes I do plan on quitting smoking, but my biggest New Years's Resolutions are:

Spend even more time with my kids: teach my son the "classics" of NES and SNES days, help my daughter put together at least 5 3D puzzles (she's phenomenal at 2D large scale ones),

Do everything I can to make life fantastic for myself, my kids and now my girlfriend and her daughter.
 
Chad Sexington

Chad Sexington

Append "with Patrick Stewart" to the end of all your resolutions: Then you can blame him for not showing and thus making it impossible for you to succeed. That jerk.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

1) Start working in schools to get experience for Teacher's College.
2) Finish writing a novel.
3) Meet a girl? One that I'm with longer than a month?
 
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makare

I want to stop caring so much about shit that ultimately doesn't matter and try to enjoy each day as it is more.
 
North_Ranger

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Eat less junk food.

Learn new, healthier recipies.

Excercise more regularly.

Learn to make a decent smoothie.

Tell my brother to stop being such a dingus.

Enjoy the year of Turku being the Culture Capital of Europe, yay.

Move to a new home.
 
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Matt²

I *WILL* get a programmer or two hired to help me get some Xbox Indie games pushed out THIS YEAR!
(Just downloaded the dev tools, and the app fee is $99.00 yearly)
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It is time for me to quit sky-diving... before I even start.
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Let me second that too! ;D
 
Cajungal

Cajungal

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NR, here's my smoothie recipe:

-Juice from 2 oranges (or 1 very big)
- about 1/3 cup coconut water or plain skim milk
-handful of blueberries
-handful of sliced strawberries
-1/2 banana
-1 tbs wheat germ

Blend and enjoy. :)
 
Krisken

Krisken

To ask before assuming I know what someone else thinks or feels on any given subject. Probably my biggest flaw right now.
 
KCWM

KCWM

I have the generic weight loss resolution. After losing 50 lbs from June to November, I've slacked off and put 5 back on since November. My body doesn't want to exercise and I've been eating junk and enjoying it. My wife, on the other hand, keeps slimming down. Good for her.

My other resolution is to actually record this EP and actually stretch it into an LP. Yes, a good portion of it depends on the availability of my friend, but I think that I write good, if not simple, music. I want to be able to put something out that represents that. I'd love to resolve to start a band, but the people I want to play with are already in a band.
 
strawman

strawman

Dave said:
I totally missed his post. The fucker.


This next year I plan on stop calling people "fucker".
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hehehe, I was just too lazy to rehost the image, so as far as I'm concerned you did it the right way anyway. It's a hilarious comic.
 
linglingface

linglingface

Fiance and I are going to have more date-nights! 2 years ago we did every other Friday date night for 2-3 months and didn't do much together this year.

I'm going to start working out more than once a month! Maybe... "Working out" meant WiiFit and a couple sit-ups here and there. Now I have Kinect's Your Shape Fitness Evolved to play with and it's 10x better. Hopefully I'll do it for more than 2-3 weeks at a time with 4-5 months in between! :)

Cleaner home! We moved into our condo in April and our room has been a cluttered mess the whole time. >.> Started clean-up today and hoping to keep going until it's actually clean and keep it that way! We're able to keep the rest of the place clean, even with our 2 friends living with us, but it's just our room that's ridiculous.

Aaaand finish more games. I have a bad habit of starting 20 games, getting maybe halfway through and finishing only 2.
 
Denbrought

Denbrought

My only unusual objectives for 2011 are to either expand or contract my belief systems, because it's getting stale, and to narrow down or widen my choices for the future, because there must be more options.
 
TommiR

TommiR

My slightly unusual resolution is to gain weight, 10 kg acquired and maintained by the end of 2011. I made a similar resolution last New Year, and managed to reach my target weight only after three days of stuffing myself full of Christmas foods.

Quitting smoking also sounds good, and might fit in well with the resolution above. With the proposed increase in taxes they're talking about over here, I might soon not be able to afford both food and cigarrettes, anyway.
 
Tress

Tress

My resolution this year is to begin rebuilding the smoldering wreck that I used to call a life.

I like my chances.
 
Dave

Dave

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I'd really like to get off my ass & finish writing a whole novel. I usually get 4-5 chapters in and then lose all interest in continuing. It doesn't help that I'm easily distracted and can access porn games 24 hours a day.
 
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Philosopher B.

Dave said:
I'd really like to get off my ass & finish writing a whole novel. I usually get 4-5 chapters in and then lose all interest in continuing. It doesn't help that I'm easily distracted and can access porn games 24 hours a day.
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Do y'all outline that shit, mang? 'Tis the only way to travel.

I do feel ya, though. In addition to reading more (read about 29 books this year), I plan to quit fuckin' around on the Internet as much and finish the current novel and two screeplays I'm working on. I'd also like to take full advantage of the camera I bought last year to film some live action skits. I've got scripts and ideas coming out of my bunghole; it's time I did something with them.
 
strawman

strawman

Dave said:
I'd really like to get off my ass & finish writing a whole novel. I usually get 4-5 chapters in and then lose all interest in continuing. It doesn't help that I'm easily distracted and can access porn games 24 hours a day.
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If you aren't half done by November, I challenge you to do nanowrimo. It worked for me.
 
phil

phil

My resolution was to get drunk and sing bad romance with friends and barflies, and I did that last night so..... On to 2012?
 
strawman

strawman

Dave said:
The trouble with NaNoWriMo is that I have no support at home. I tried it the last two years and was constantly bothered.
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Oh, yeah, if that's the case then no wonder it's difficult. You need a cheering squad. Start writing your story in the media forum. Just add a few hundred words whenever you get the chance, and we'll bug you to give us more. Even though it'll be difficult since you won't have long uninterrupted periods to write for, I suspect the extra support may help you get past that.

Then you withhold the last chapter, and force everyone that got hooked on your novel to buy it on lulu.
 
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