new year's resolutions!

[midnightjuly]

1. Stick with my healthy eating thing (note: my definition of healthy eating is a) eating multiple times a day, b) not eating too much of something I know will make me sick, c) trying to eat something with protein at least three times a day, d) not counting calories or nutrients or anything at all, because it's pretty much impossible for me to do that and not obsess. Technically, if I ate eight meals in one day and all of them were chicken nuggets, I would still be sticking with my healthy eating thing!) and also I hear that exercise is a good thing that I should probably be doing, and as such will be doing just that! Ultimate goal is to be, like, vampire-slayer-strong.

2. Shoot more things! Probably with airsoft guns and not real ones, since the firearms safety course/licensing stuff is proving impossible to get information on. MAYBE I WILL JUST BUY A CROSSBOW. Ultimate goal is to have Hawkeye-aim!

3. Get better at krav maga, okay if you haven't guessed by now, 2012's theme is THIS YEAR I WILL BE A SUPERHERO.

4. Writing stuff: write at least 100000 words (altogether, on any/all projects), write three short stories and twenty poems, finish one big bang fic, and attempt NaNoWriMo if possible.

5. School stuff: do the academic boot camp thing before heading back to school, get a 4.0 GPA, submit all papers on time.

6. Work/money stuff: keep resume updated, pick up a student job while in school while keeping other two jobs, get a student line of credit, pay all bills on time, end the year with money in my savings account and no debt. (Fingers crossed on this one, but I think it might be doable!)

7. Start new holiday traditions! I mentioned this on Tumblr, how Christmas generally makes me twitchy and sad, not to mention stressed, so I would like to add fun, random things to the holidays, whether they make sense or not. And not just Christmas! Like Valentine's Day! St. Valentine is the patron saint of beekeepers, so obviously I will be celebrating February 14th with a Pushing Daisies marathon and a viewing of Eddie Izzard's Glorious. COVERED IN BEEEEEES

8. MAKE A TESSERACT OUT OF MINI-MARSHMALLOWS AND TOOTHPICKS. I've had this as a goal forever and just never got around to it. THIS YEAR IS THE YEAR.

9. Start a Pokemon game from the beginning, build an awesome team, and defeat the Elite Four. This will probably be the only thing on this list I actually do.

10. Have fun. Have a lot of fun. HAVE ALL THE FUN THAT IS TO BE HAD.

Comments

[chrestomanci]

God I am the worst at eating nutritious foods. I've been on the Weight Watchers diet since August 2010 but uhhhh hahahaha haven't followed it much for the last month. IT'S JUST... SO DIFFICULT.... TO... EAT CORRECTLY............. why can't I just have TV dinners and fast food all day. So convenient :(

I actually had a lot of success with walking early in 2011. I sort of slowly stepped up my activity until I walked for an hour almost every night (I lived in a neighborhood at the time) and I lost sooo many inches. Walking 30 mins every day doesn't get you the same results though :(

Do you have Pokemon Black or White? :D :D :D

[midnightjuly]

Awwww. :( I can't keep track of food without getting ridiculously crazy about it, so I'm trying to take my focus off of what I'm eating and putting it on when I'm eating. I also want to gain some muscle, because I'm super-weak and it's ridiculous. I have so much energy when I'm eating regular meals and exercising, so I have no idea why it's so difficult to keep it up. :(

Walking is the best! It's so relaxing, too.

Neither, although I'm planning on picking one of them up! I've got Pearl kicking around here somewhere, though, and I'll probably try to get through it before I buy one of the new ones, since I've never actually finished it (there's just so much to do!). :D

[hlagol]

These are good resolutions! I'm like you with the food - I'm always trying to be "healthy in general" without counting, since I go down the obsessive and disordered road pretty quickly if I do that. And here here to #10. People forget that it's a worthy life goal, sometimes.

[midnightjuly]

It's definitely a slippery slope. :( It's so tricky, knowing that eating better is a good thing but not knowing how to do it without inadvertently setting off a bad thing.

:D I think that one's the most important one on the list! Most of my best memories from this year happened when I was travelling, and I'm trying to work on keeping that happiness alive all the time when I'm just living my normal life.

[yvonne]

Ultimate goal is to be, like, vampire-slayer-strong.
I approve so much of this one. I need to excercise a lot. I'll be going to swimming pool next year.

having little traditions is a great idea. me and parents don't celebrate anything anymore and I'm bored out of my mind, I miss the presents. I can't spend new year's with friends because they all have families and I won't leave my parents on this day anyway, so... stuck in a routine.

you resolutions inspire me!

[midnightjuly]

Swimming is so much fun! :D

Aww. :( Being stuck in a routine is never much fun. I hope you and your family still have a good new year's, though.

Aww, glad to hear it!

[geena]

Get better at krav maga

That sounds awesome. Actually, it sounds like most of 2012 will be awesome.

[midnightjuly]

I hope it will be! I'm pretty terrible at krav maga -- I'm basically teaching myself out of a book with help from some friends who practice other martial arts, because there aren't any classes offered anywhere in my province yet, but I can throw a decent punch now and I know a few tricks that make me feel safer when I'm walking home alone at night, so it's been good so far!

[gotthesilver]

2012's theme is THIS YEAR I WILL BE A SUPERHERO

That is BRILLIANT.

[midnightjuly]

Unfortunately I have the most boring superpowers ever (mainly: small children taking to me instantly, reasonably good aim, and being A++ at trivia) so if I want to be a superhero, I'm going to have to be the non-powered but badass kind. :DDD