Happy New Year to all my bloggy friends! I hope whatever you did to celebrate the new year was enjoyable. After we watched the pre-recorded ball drop in Times Square, and a rather scary-looking Dick Clark wish us all a happy new year, we shut off the TV and asked J if she had any resolutions this year. I fully expected the one she’s been using for years (i.e., “I resolve to floss more”), but she didn’t. Instead, J said that she resolved to not resolved to do anything since she never really stands by the resolutions she’s made in the past (flossing is in that list).
So, I did a Google search and found a Top 10 list that seems to have some common themes. And here they are:
1. Spend More Time With Family and Friends
2. Get Fit
3. Lose Weight
4. Stop Smoking
5. Enjoy Life
6. Stop Drinking (Alcohol, of course)
7. Pay Down Your Credit Card Debts
8. Learn New Things
9. Be More Helpful to Other People
10. Be More Organized
Looking at that list, I’ve been working on #3, but it’s not through some kind of diet that I plan on deflating the gut a bit. Rather it’s just trimming down portion sizes, eating a lot slower, and being more active. For as long as I can remember (for my adult life, anyway), I’ve been one of those guys who wolfs food down. When combined with work conditions that are pretty sedentary, you get some prime conditions for getting larger! And guess what? I’ve gotten larger! Yay! More to love, right? Wrong. Now that I’m in my 40s, I can’t live the same way I have in the past and expect to enjoy the “back 40” of life with the same joie de vivre. So, instead of getting all “Oh, this blows! No more fun for me,” I just am going to try and make an “adjustment” in my day to day so I don’t end up at Dr. Rotman’s office with him telling me: “Um, let’s talk about getting you on meds that will address the chronic X problem you’ve developed.”
One other resolution: take some guitar lessons! I bought a Telecaster a few months ago, and have been trying to do the autodidact method of learning to play, but it’s not going so well. So, I think I’ll buy a few lessons from Maya’s old guitar teacher (I also briefly managed a band of his back in the 80s. Small world, eh? ) so I can get started on “the good foot.”
Okay, those are mine for the year (and beyond). Care to share?
–PK
P.S. Punning Pundit has this amusing link to a story about protesting the new year. Click HERE.
Beenzzz
January 1, 2007 at 11:09 amYou know, #3 is on my list of resolutions too. I’m all set to go!!! Good luck and Happy New Year.
Shelliza
January 1, 2007 at 11:38 amHappy New Year. I will try with #3 as well, by making little changes that will hopefully lead to big steps. I recently heard that most new year’s resolutions fall to the way side by the 17th of January, so I’ll see how mine goes. Good luck!
Py Korry
January 1, 2007 at 4:00 pmIt’s difficult to make those changes, and I can see how easily one can revert to old habits if there aren’t really compelling reasons to keep with resolutions in the first place.
J
January 1, 2007 at 11:23 pmWell know we know the date, January 17th, let’s see if we can get past that date! 🙂 Good luck, everyone!
Gina
January 2, 2007 at 4:30 amOk, ok, if I were to have a resolution it would have to be to get healthy, but that is sort of out of my control, so does it even qualify? 😉
Eric Grubbs
January 2, 2007 at 8:13 amHere’s mine for 2007:
FINISH MY BOOK!
Lalapunci
January 2, 2007 at 8:56 amNumber 3 is on my list and has been for a few years. Number 2 is another one.
Ml
January 2, 2007 at 9:25 amAll ten of those apply to me some time or the other. Only thing is, it took us how long to get where we are? So, it’s going to take how long to change that habit? It takes patience 😉
Lalapunci
January 2, 2007 at 1:27 pmHey Py,
What is the difference in the sound of the Telecaster and the Stratocaster? My ears can’t distinquish the sounds, must be getting old.
lalunas
January 2, 2007 at 2:18 pmI was going to say finish the book you let me borrow.
Be happier with myself inside and out.
Michael
January 4, 2007 at 3:27 pmGood for you buying a guitar. If you have any emailable questions, please feel free to direct them my way.