New Years Resolutions

Make them, write them, break them!

Or make goals for SeriousGrowingInTheNewYear and work patiently to perfect oneself.

Will. Get. Along. With. Parents.

Eireann's Resolutions, silly and serious

• I will not bite my nails (hahahahaha)
• I will go to Aikido as often as I can before I leave and get the most out of it as possible.
• I will read more and otherwise let myself be soaked in knowledge, expand my mind and all
• I will start a cult based on days-of-the-week panties
• I will seduce 500 geeks by February
• I will improve my writing and photography
• I will be open to unexpected adventures and discoveries
• I will embarrass my boss more
• I will be a better friend to those who deserve it, and stop being so damn nice to stupid people who aren't nice to me
• I will stop making resolutions now

 I'm going to learn to sing -good- harmony. As in, hit the note I want, on
the first try, 85% of the time or better.
 The rest will take care of itself.
 --Chris B.
 

I'm going to continue trusting people. And I am going to Go Places.

Auh,..this is rather scary-but here are my New Year Resolutions: here-a-we-go-a...

• Smile more
• lose 5 punds, Tone up and get some kick ass -abs.
• Continue being vegan, but learn more about it.
• Learn about nutrition in general.
• Stop hating myself when I eat, and make food a friend.
• Talk more about my eating disorder.
• Help people who have problems.
• Take more risks with guys- get some lovin girl!
• Have sex. (um yeah, that one pretty mcuh explains itself. any offers?)
• Try something new each day that scares me
• Get a boyfriend, long distance or not. And stay together for longer than a week.
• Abbi, I would seriously not reccommend long distance. They suck. It's horrible being far away from someone you love. Really. Take my word for it.
• Tell guys when I like them. Don't be so shy.
• See myself as beautiful. And when people tell me I am, accept the compliment.
• Talk to all of you, and tell you I love you so much and how much you mean to me.
• Learn Yoga.
• Tap my ass off and get REALLy fuckin good.
• Listen to lots of really good violin music.
• Convince my friends to convert to unschooling.
• and last, but not least: LOVE my life and all my blessings.

- Abbi (IceAbbi) who-has-her-work-cut-out-for-her.

this year i am going to show myself that im worthy but i've been saying this all of my life

first of all, I love what you wrote rosiedoll! very very beautiful. and mine:

• take self defense classes.
• start writing in a real life paper journal again.
• pat the kitty.
• care less about what people think of me. (notice how I phrased it differently!)
• get up the courage to tell people how I feel about them.
• drink less. ahem.
• cherish being in the presence of those I adore.
• write a novella, picture book, rock opera and several short screenplays.
• create on a regular basis.
• take banjo, modern dance and sewing classes.
• freight hop.
• make a big ol' effort to get healthier and
• maybe go to the dentist.

~gabrielle

• live joyfully
• become stronger
• stay in touch with my body and its needs
• climb trees
• spend less time caring what other people think
• work to make the world better
• keep growing out my hair
• learn how to: debate, swing dance, speak Spanish, draw bones, men & animals, do handstands, paint oceans, be there for people without hurting myself, flirt with dignity, fall in love, care for plants without letting them die...

This year ive decided to give up suffering... -Dawn (same resolution since i was 15...)

yes, well...

• get lots of bracelets.
• make lots of money.
• tone down my hormones. be a little less boycrazy.
• eat lots of nachos!
• take belly-dancing classes this spring!
• fall for someone who's fallen for me and be a giver/reciever of those happy kisses.
• sing a whole lot. improve my voice.
• get a job.
• worry less about what others think, and more about what He thinks.
• throw all my resolutions out the window, and focus on this singularly important one: to get my life back on track, and watch all the pieces come together.

cough cough. i was just talking to my friend. evidentally on the eve of the new year, whilst i was in a, um, quite inebriated state... i confessed to her my true new years resolution; it seems that this year i must spend more time with keeley mcfadden. and there you have it...

                                   -moth

hmmmm.... 1) Do lots of cooking. 2) Pay more attention to bass. 3) Try to make my brother vanish off the face of the earth(Did i say that out loud?)....... -Isaac V da King Of Poison.

Let's see... 1) To continue to stay the same in the ways that count/i like about myself... for example; being friends with anyone i want.. being energetic, trustworthy, reliable, funny.. laugh a lot 2) Try to detox myself from COSI.. (ha! who am I kidding! ;)) okay, at least have a zillion things in life besides cosi. :) 3) Do more traveling... go to DC, Chicago, East Coast (like New England; New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Maine, etc.), Cali, Hawaii, Germany, China Taiwan Japan / Korea (not likely to be ablr to do all of this, but I sure would love to!) 4) Learn at least one (or more?) of the following languages .. Spanish, Italian, French. [1]

• I'm never going to bite my nails again. Really. ....until next Tuesday.
• My room will never be messy again, starting tomorrow. I'll spend precious hours (that would be better spent playing laser-tag downtown at four in the morning) maintaining it. I'll quit my job, I'll forgo college, I'll ditch my friends.... Oh fuck that. Maybe I'll get a submissive boi to clean my room each day. In that case, I can spend precious time standing by the door holding a whip.
• Get a hold of some pot and try it. Also, make a habit of drinking liquid crack (er..turkish coffee) every day.
• Wear exciting underwear ;)

Says Eire, who is not going to write any serious resolutions this year. I already know what I want from the next year, and I don't need to define it.

Okay... Things FionA is going to do (or not do. Or do differently) this year.

• Not have a nervous breakdown before I get to the airport (or at the airport, for that matter)
• Not be embarrassed to read poetry or sing in front of people
• Not let people push me around and make me feel bad
• Love myself unconditionally
• Make a real live honest-to-god attempt to NOT cut
• get a job
• write more e-mails to people (hell, write more LETTERS to people)
• actually buy some of these CDs that I keep downloading songs from
• be honest with people
• take better care of myself
• be better about doing school-type work so that I don't get sent to a REAL school
• play piano and guitar until my hands fall off
• get to bed before midnight 6 days a week (ha. ha. ha. right)
• travel more
• tell people I love them
• commit more random acts of kindness for people that will never find out it was me
• visit more people, and coerce more people into visiting me (I'm interesting, dammit! Visit me!)
• not write more resolutions than I can handle :-P

Happy New Millenium, You Y2k Bastards!

Had to get that out, sorry...

• Going to try and attempt to be a really nice guy. happy, optimistic, kind, not rude, but we shall see if I can pull it off or not~
• Give up Coffee.
• Give up any bad habits I have (I need help here, I don't know what they all are)
• Write as often as possible
• Learn to play various instruments
• Yeah, me too. [1] Italian, greek, arabic mebbe.
• Compose a symphony (semi-serious)
• Try and finish a few of the 250 books I own
• Get a haircut!
• Get a Job!
• Get a Driver's License!
• Get some good SAT scores!
• Get some Respect!
• Get a ride to St. Paul!
• Elope to New Zealand and live in a small hut in the Fjordland national park, living off small furry animals and learning to talk to the dolphins that inhabit Doubtful Sound~

G'day, all you wonderful glittery people. ~Danopian, master of cynical optimism~

eh, I don't really beleive in New Year's Resolutions...not like setting in stone your goals to be a Good Person this time around Or Else. But I like goals. I like really wanting to accomplish something. I especially like knowing what I want to do. And remembering it. So here's what I want, or plan, or dream, or hope for next year:

• Learn math up to basic/intermediate algebra so I can:
• ---take and pass my CHSPE and get my equivalent-of-a-highschool-diploma.
• learn to drive
• start learning spoken Spanish, and written Japanese
• travel. get lost in the hills. apprentice with a botanist or a builder who does traditional methods (like thatch! I LOVE thatch! and cob! And carpentry!)
• get really grounded and deep and also revel in mindless and flashy frivolity (to everything there is a season...)
• there's more. but that's all I'm going to list...the rest are less defined and closer to my heart.

My Big Plans

• Get to 2003 unharmed and with fully-functioning limbs
• Stay in love
• Get a job
• Manage my money better
• Drag Naomi up here
• Marry David Bowie
• Learn to bake flawless bread
• Stop getting defensive at ever little tiny thing
• Ignore Katie's constant small comments about how I should go to school
• Stop taking it out on people when I'm having a bad day
• Write more love poems
• Listen to more Oasis and Everclear
• Love. All.

  --ali the constant hope

Boo boo de doop.

• never fall into love
• or jello
• or anyone's arms
• or the ocean

• stay at home in the manner of a turtle, or tortoise, since we're all so romantically inclined
• never become a pirate

There.

~wind, looking quite pleased. (note: due to the inevitable nature of resolutions to be broken (generally in the manner of a Jewish bridegroom crushing a wine glass), these resolutions have been designed with that in mind. made to be broken, so to speak.)

• Be careful not to overdose on Christmas cookies (my mother is now making them, because she has more time and is relaxed enough. teehee).
• Get bounds better on violin; play so beautifully that it can sweep a listener away and make them cry. There is, though, and alterior motive, or moreso just another motive: so i am good enough to go to the music camp in Salzburg, Austria, where I would be staying in a castle with the other musicians. ahhh, how lovely it would be... five weeks of music camp *drools*.
• Memorize many pieces on violin, to build a good repretoire for busking.
• Breathe deeper, and on a more often.
• Become comfortable wherever I am, and being with whoever I am around.
• Get new clothes (The pants I am wearing are quite literally falling apart).
• Eat healthier and sleep better, enabling me to excersize more, which would get me to a much more pleasant healthy state of having energy, strength, and a nice look (have you seen someones back that has nicely toned musclesmind you, not overly toned huge muscles? I assure you, it's quite attractive).
• Paint when I get inspired. Forget about the hassle of setting-up/cleaning-putting-away.
• Get a drivers liscence (and a busking liscence?).
• Get a job.
• Be cheerful, generous and unconditionally loving towards people. *Help out whenever possible (especially when I think I would rather notlike house work and whatnotbecause I know I'll end up getting interested and involved like I always do, and it's much more important than feeding my Sims addiction).
• Learn more on academic subjects, and keep learning about life.
• Finally start learning french, on [dare I resolve] a regular basis.
• Floss. Got to keep my smile nice, since I use it so much :)
• Get in the habit of noticing obvious things and not making excuses for failing or just being pitiful about something, just because I'm lazy. So, pretty much stop being so damned lazy and live life, dammit, because it's there, all around, and it's spectacular if you can just get off your lazy ass and do what you enjoy and what's important to you instead of sitting around making pathetic excuses for being lazy and doing things you don't really care about just because you think it's all easier and all that bullshit....okay, I will step down from my soap box now, realising it's late, which is altering my resolution list writing. I will now get off the computer and A. stay up and have fun with my sista's or B. go to bed because everyone's asleep by now.

• Learn how to sew really, really well
• Stretch every day!
• Get a job, so I have some way of making/saving money
• This almost goes without saying, I've been putting so much pressure on myself lately, but get into somewhere good this spring. AAAAH!
• Actually study and kick the SAT's butt
• Finish my correspondance courses
• Learn Spanish (French is okay, too)
• Work on my parents' "high school guidelines"
• Learn how to use the silly bus system/walk everywhere
• Learn how to drive anyway
• Do something musical!
• Do something socially active - Emma

Stuff I want to do/start doing this year:

• Learn to control my temper a bit better
• Start meditating on a regular basis. I never do it as much as I should.
• Apprentice with a trainer that uses humane/positive methods. I'm trying to make this happen as we speak, but so far it isn't going well.
• Go to NBTSC and meet you guys. (Duh!)
• Go backpacking in the Smokies without getting eaten by a bear or bitten by a snake.

-Katherine

• stop falling for stupid boys
• keep in touch with my host family in Australia more often
• further my collection of cool underwear
• smile more
• write more
• kiss a beautiful boy in the middle of a busy mall
• stay at my house in California for a few weeks in May
• plan my return trip to Australia down to the day, hour and second
• go night clubbing more often
• adhear to my tendencies to be blithe
• go skinny dipping more than once
• go skinny dipping with him
• be nicer to my sister (seriously)

okay here goes. note: i dont believe that resolutions ought to be made to be broken. i agree with rosie about goals. goals are important. i think that we shouldnt just give up on our resolutions, even if they happen later than expected or hoped for. resolutions and goals are there so we have something to work towards.

• grow gracefully into "adulthood"
• find where i want to live and who i want to live with after i turn 18 before i turn 18
• and find a wonderful job wherever that may be
• send people more random sweet happiness packages and letters
• be more honest with myself and others
• stop falling in lust for people who i don't even really like. and/or can never have
• grow from and out of my intense fear of rejection and abandonment and allow myself to fall in love again
• make more friends who truely understand, love, and respect me for who i am
• dance more
• go outside more
• do more little things that make people happy
• learn to accept love/compliments/gifts gracefully and sincerely
• write in my journal every day

there's more but i'll just post them as i think of them. xoxo jennyrose

I really need to stop biting my finger nails. arg. JesseBorges

in the year 2002 i want to:

• write a lot more
• ready my writing out loud. to people. without freaking out
• learn to dance [2003]
• grow
• be happy more than not
• let go of things
• live for me
• be passionate about everything i do
• not fall in love
• go to new orleans
• visit people
• have them visit me
• play in the dirt
• run through sprinklers
• voice my feelings

Franny

[2003] If you can walk, you can dance, if you can talk, you can sing