New Year's resolutions?
 

I realize no one has started a happy holidays thread. So Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Happy New Year!!

Do you have a new year's resolution, and have you broken it yet as Julie has apparently just confessed to having done? Or do you have a great or lousy track record of keeping them? I've usually been careful to only make a vow I can keep, but haven't even thought of a resolution until starting this thread.

We all need something fun and light to start out the year. So fess up. (And preferably make it sordid and juicy, k.)::eek:

Jeanne

I will not make remarks about Ed Milibum's appeaance.
I will not make remarks about David Cameron's lies.
I will not make remarks about poor Mr Clegg at all.

John,
The only name I recognize there for sure is your dear Prime Minister, or as you would more likely call him (if only you hadn't made that pesky resolution), your dire Prime Minister. Now just how long do you think you can keep those resolutions? hehe Anyone wanna place some bets?

Jeanne

New Year's resolutions should be spontaneous and light-hearted; otherwise it will lead to misery. As this article concludes, we should "make a New Year’s resolution not to make New Year’s resolutions".

Duncan

Probably sometime in February I'm planning to resolve to be more punctual.

I'm fond of New Year's Resolutions because of a strong one I made more than twenty years ago: I resolved to take at least one risk each week. I didn't do anything worth mentioning for several weeks, because I was working with a lousy definition of "risk," but once I fixed that, the resolution took on real life. By the end of the year, I had left my job, was living in Hungary, and was writing more than I ever had. Though I'm back in the States, my Hungarian wife and bilingual kids are regular reminders of how much I owe to that wonderful resolution.

This year's resolutions are boring. Maybe it's time for me to revive that old one.

My resolution is to get off the Internet. How am I doing so far?

We have an election coming up. Jeanne. These are party leaders, perhaps not very good ones. But rhen that's true everywhere, isn't it?

I happen to love the biggest procrastinator in the world. So of course Neil thought this one was hilarious. If he could actually launch himself to even start resolving by Feb., it would be huge progress!

Jeanne

If you need a later start, the first day of the Chinese New Year is February 19. (Or, if you're REALLY a procrastinator, Rosh Hashanah isn't until September 13...)

Thank you Julie. That's very "helpful". Now I need to find a way to stop Neil from reading this thread!

Jeanne

Julie, that reminds me of a contest I once submitted to (songwriting of all things, for which I got hon mention), where my constant re-recording caused me to miss my own time zone deadline, so I kept moving it back until I reached, literally, Hawaii time. And finally turned it in. Were all contests so deadline-flexible. Not to mention resolutions. I've resolved to send more things in no later than Rosh Hashanah.

Siham

Here's what some writers have resolved to do this year.

Duncan

K, I made a special request for sordid and juicy. Not so much as a revelation on boxers or briefs, granny panties or thongs, yet. Heard someone on here really has the warmies for David Cameron. My memory fails me, though pretty sure it wasn't John.

Jeanne

No, Jeanne, it wasn't me. I'm the one that likes Mr Farage. I made a resolution not to say that. I've broken it already.

John,
I'm not positive if my inference to "the warmies" translates across the pond. Or even to most here, since I have a fondness for hip yet archaic catchphrases that were "cool" in my hayday (oops, I did it again). When you say like, do you mean know, like biblical knowing...nevermind. None of my beewax.

Jeanne

Good Heavens no, Jeanne. Tsk, tsk, the very idea. Our Home Secretary, Teresa May, perhaps. But no-one approaches the divine Maggie in that regard.

Perhaps not as sordid as you were hoping for, Jeanne...but this year I resolve to learn to play the tenor ukulele well enough to become a member of the world's second oldest profession (busking).

[Edited to add: Duncan, the hardest I've laughed all year is the part of your link that said "My literary resolution this year is to buy no new books until I’ve read all the books I already have." GOOD ONE!]

New Year's irresolution #1: Exercise (sigh)

Nausheen

My New-Year's resolution is to keep promoting the anti-defamation of granny panties.

;)

Now that's more like it, Billiam. Kathy Griffin has been on a similar campaign: http://www.sheknows.com/entertainmen...gloria-estefan

I have at least one pair, but have not flashed Gloria Estefan, or the viewing world. Since I still don't have a resolution, maybe...?

Jeanne

No, not as sordid as I would have hoped for. Buskering is fun, and can verge on sordid if properly monologued (by an artful wordsmith who can get it past the kids, while delivering an off-colour chuckle to the adults). I have yet to see naked ukelele buskering though. Intrigued - huh, huh?!

Jeanne