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I made two resolutions in 2010. The one to eat oatmeal every day fell in March when the water was shut off in my old apartment building. The one to write at least one drabble every day? That one succeeded. So far for 2011, I've decided to renew the drabble one (with the amendment that at least two drabbles every week have to be originals) and to try again for the oatmeal. I've been considering a couple others. One would be to start a blog, and the other to get out of my apartment every single day.

 

Those are fun resolutions!! You're a big oatmeal fan, I take it?

 

If I were that big of one, the resolution would've been redundant. No, it's more that I should eat it more than I have been, and this provides motivation. Last year, after I hit that period where I couldn't have any for a few days, I just stopped trying.

 

Gotcha. I wish I was that motivated. I think Mom would love it if I had an "east borccoli every day" resolution.

 

Hm, that oatmeal resolution sounds like a good way to save on grocery money...

I made 38 resolutions this year. Usually I make around 25 and achieve maybe 5 of them. But last year I didn't make any, so I figured I had to step up my game.

The big ones this year are to go back to school, be less poor, and host more parties.

 

I don't really do resolutions. I don't find them inspiring - if I want to change something about myself, I just go ahead and do it.

On the other hand, they are nice to use as goals for writing. Like this year I'm going to attempt to write each of the four tables per month at the 50 Sentences Challenge. That will be a lot of writing.

 

I like to give myself easy/attainable resolutions. This year's is simple: end the year weighing less than I do now, and just try and have a good year.

 

Yay, simple resolutions! Good luck with it, Mi.

Has anyone noticed how we all have new, shiny, slanted stars by our usernames?

 

Hmm, looks like someone's been playing with them again . . .

I learned (through fanfic resolutions, actually ) that I like to have something (written or memorized) that I can work toward - it motivates me when I'm having trouble day to day. Like, get a certain GPA. Or, (when I was working retail) sell a certain amount this shift. I like scratching things off a to-do list or seeing at the end of the year that I've gotten somewhere specific.

Woah, that's a lot of resolutions!! Good luck with them

Miana, good luck with yours, too!! That's an admirable goal

 

Shiny. I didn't know you could play with the starry icons, beyond the Hallowe'en and Christmas specialized ones we saw.

 

Thanks for the good luck wishes, NYCitygurl!

Ah, you people are all so sensible with your simple resolutions. I just like to make a lot of them because I'm bound to end the year feeling like I've accomplished something.

 

Is it possible to have a resolution that takes over a year to do? If so, I hereby resolve to have my student theatre company formed, working on my production of Hamlet, and producing the show by the time March 2012 swings around.

... which is something my partner and I resolved to do back in November, but I feel left out if I don't say that I resolve to do something.

 

I hereby declare that your resolution is good enough, Idrelle!

If I had the authority to. And I guess I do. Sort of.

 

Thanks, Ubersue. I hereby declare that you have the authority to declare New Year's resolutions "good enough" or "not good enough".

... if I had the authority to do so.

 

Thank you, Idrelle. I now declare that all resolutions pertaining to the losing of weight be null and void until the sale of discounted Christmas cookies is over.

I like having this kind of power.

 

Uh oh. If we're not careful, she's going to go tyrannical on us!

 

Heh. I still have some remains of my Christmas cookie supply my Mum packed me with. She bakes about 8 different kinds every Christmas, plus a big cake or two - it's a tradition. We never buy Christmas cookies; that would be an insult to my Mum's superior baking skillz. Although, the traditional Slovak honey cookies are always mine (she only prepares the dough for me in advance, to save time).

 

Wow.

I hate baking cookies. I can't even begin to emphasize all the different ways how I dislike baking cookies.

I love eating them, though. And Slovak honey cookies sound delicious.

 

I love baking cookies. Can't stand the taste of store-bought ones.

And Mar, remember when you showed me a pic of those cookies back in December? I still want some.

 

Seconded on Slovak honey cookies sounding awesome!

I love baking cookies, but my oven doesn't work. That's probably for the best. I'm kind of a sugar fiend.

 

My school oven is disgusting, so I don't really use it - not that I would really have the time. I try to eat as best as I can when I'm at school, but it's hard; I don't have a lot of time to spend, and a lot of the things I like to eat can take up to or over an hour to make (like pierogies, which take an hour and a half to make from scratch - but they're totally worth it).

 

Yeah, eating well while you're at school is pretty hard. I try to fill my freezer with homemade chilli and stuff like that when I've got classes.

 

I usually end up buying things from the market. I really, really shouldn't: most of it isn't very healthy (though it is quite a bit healthier than other campus options), and it's expensive. But I usually run out of time to make something to bring with me, or I don't have room to pack both a lunch and a dinner. It gets frustrating when they close the market at 7:00 and I still have a three hour reharsal ahead of me and I don't have anywhere to grab dinner... aside from a Tim Horton's that only offers doughnuts and muffins.

Plus, I don't really like supporting the market anyway. Because of it, the windows in two of our studios are gone (the market occupies a space that used to be an out-door courtyard that no one walked through except for the theatre and music students) and now we feel even more boxed in than before. Our studio spaces are all prisons - none of them, except one, has windows now, which is frustrating for me because I already live in a basement flat.

... yes, I am a very sour drama student.

 

Ah, Timmy's. Go for the bagel and cream cheese! It's your most nutritious option.

Hey, you should hear me complain about my place. I don't live on campus, but I moved to be closer to classes (which I couldn't scrounge up the money for anyway, oops), and though I love having my own place now...

Okay, in my suburb, everyone owns a car. And there's also a lot of prostitution, pretty much everywhere. And because transit isn't so great, I have to walk everywhere, and there's always creepy dudes trying to pick me up. Ew, ew, ew. Doesn't matter how I'm dressed. If I can't afford a car next year, I'm cutting off my hair and wearing a fake moustache.