I like to pick resolutions that I have a chance of actually keeping. People always seem to pick depressing, austere resolutions that are doomed to failure. Stuff like restrictive diets or going to the gym every day isn't fun for most people so why bother. I refuse to be guilt-tripped by my own lack of self-discipline and hopeless self-improvement agenda. There's plenty of guilt in my life already, why add more?
Previous resolutions of mine have included learning to drink bourbon (sadly a fail in that, while I can drink bourbon now, it turns out that I actually much prefer whiskey/whisky).
Anyway, a list of the resolutions I intend to keep this year:
- get more sleep: this one may require convincing a certain child to go to bed at a more appropriate "child-like" hour, say before 10pm
- eat more interesting meats: I feel like we're trapped in a chicken-pork-beef vortex. I'm allergic to fish so they're out but I want to try cooking with goat and get my hands on some wild game
- buy into a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture): for vegetables, eggs and maybe meat
- plan something fun to do every weekend: I tend to find myself spending weekends running around doing a bunch of meaningless errands, cleaning, etc. and then get depressed on Sunday realizing that I've wasted a perfectly good weekend. I need to make a list of things we can do as a family like go snowshoeing/skating, go to a museum, go for a drive someplace new, go to a hockey game, etc.
- invite people over for dinner regularly: I love cooking and having people over but never seem to be able to get organized to actually make plans in advance. I want to try to do this at least once a month.
- take more photos and learn more about photography/cameras
Anyone else have any resolutions they want to share?
I have been thinking about doing a similar post, but I am shit out of ideas for NY Resolutions with one exception: Read more classics. I hate to admit it, but I do tend to get bullied by those '100 Books - How many have YOU read?' lists. I read the list, and end up thinking I am SO not well-read! But the lists are good I think...so I might resolve to read more 'classics' - interspersed with the usual trash of course.
ReplyDeleteI would like to invite people over for dinner more regularly too. Usually I just look around my messy house and give up on that idea, but I would like to get past the mess and entertain more often. Messy house as it is.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year to you.
Jen, I get what you mean about classics, but then I remember that life is short, people didn't have TV back then and Dickens got paid by the word.
ReplyDeleteFinola, this will sound somewhat bitchy but I had a wonderful dinner over Christmas at a home I would be ashamed to call mine (partially-renovated, messy, full of insanely-large fish tanks, insufficient seating, etc.) with food I would have been embarrassed to serve to company (white rice, boiled carrots, crock-pot pork). The kid had so much fun playing with other kids and the mess of toys, the meal was filling and the company was a blast. It definitely cemented my resolution to get over myself and just invite people for dinner. If people are more concerned with your cooking or cleaning than just enjoying visiting, chances are good they're not people you'd want to invite back anyway.