Feeling Quite Resolute

I surprised Wifey yesterday morning by telling her I'd made some New Year's Resolutions last night.*

I don't normally do the 'resolutions' thing. I think if there's something you need or want to change about yourself, just do it. Don't wait for some kind of unrealistic "fresh start" moment that means nothing more than another other moment, and then generally leads to you breaking the resolution within the first nine days (or so research tell us ... okay, I just made that up).

That being said, I've decided to use the wholly significant moment that is the start of the new year to re-assess my life and determine some of the things I want to change. Hypocritical? Pah!

In no particular order:


(1) Eat less sugar. I'm not sure just how I'm going to monitor this (and you'll notice the entirely immeasurable variable of the word 'less' I've used in the phrase ... call it my insurance), but it's my intention not to die of diabetes if I can help it. Fewer doughnuts; not as much chocolate; in fact, just cut back on the junk food in general. And I really love my junk food, so it'll feel like it's killing me ... but that's better than it actually killing me.

(2) Drink less cola. Whether it's Coke, Pepsi, Aldi, Brewster's, Australia's Choice or any other cola brand you care to mention (except Schweppes Cola, which is toilet water), I tend to drink cola like it's going out of style. You may recall me referring to it on this blog as "mother's milk to me" (a quote I've lifted from My Fair Lady and use in regular conversation; even asking my father-in-law at the Christmas dinner table to pass the Mother's Milk). I guess there are worse things I could be drinking to excess (alcohol, for one ... toilet water, for another ... even lighter fluid would rate a mention, there), but I'm almost embarrassed to tell you how much of the 'black gold' liquid I've been drinking lately. Suffice it to say that I'm going to cut back to two cans a day (yes, cut back to two cans a day! And that's just to help me get through the day at work as my caffiene injection). Let's leave the question of how-much-cola-I've-been-drinking-lately right there. I guess my intention would be to reduce the two cans a day maximum even further in time, but let's not get carried away too soon, people. And a bit of context before you all lay into me: I don't drink any alcohol, and I don't drink tea or coffee either (making a "coffee break" at work nothing more than grabbing a can of soft drink). The only exception to the "no more than two cans a day" restriction would be when we're having 'junk food' for our evening meal (pizza, fish & chips, hamburgers, etc). You know, the kind of food that lends itself to a glass of Coke on the side. I have opted instead to drink juice whenever I would ordinarily have drunk cola - but I'll be sure to watch the sugar intake on the pre-packaged juices we buy, or else I'll be blowing my first resolution!

(3) Get back to reading other peoples' blogs like I used to. Nothing much to add to that, except my apologies that my attendance on your blogs has been noticeably lacking recently. New child and all that, but I don't want to play that card all the time for everything. I've been busy, yes - but hopefully I'll be able to get back into the swing of things.

(4) Use more semi-colons. This one isn't actually for me; I use semi-colons properly and I'm quite satisfied with my performance in that area. It's just that I always notice other people using commas where there should really be a semi-colon, so no longer will I stand idly by and let this happen without comment. Prepare to get really pissed off with me.

(5) Stay current. Oh, that reminds me. The 'Merry Christmas' post I promised you before I went on holidays the other week should be up here any day now. And my review on the final episode of Thank God You're Here's second season (on my TV blog) isn't too far off, either. *heehee*


So there they are. The first two are probably going to have many of you disgusted with me, but hey - better late than never. And the best part (for me, anyway), is that I didn't need anyone to come down hard on me in any way and force or pressure me into making these decisions. I made them myself without anyone saying anything, and that's probably the only way I'll have any chance of sticking with them.

So, if it's not too personal (and it hasn't been done elsewhere on the blogosphere already), what New Year's Resolutions have you made for 2007?




* Then, by way of counterbalance, Wifey turned around and surprised me, by announcing that she is considering possibly starting up her own blog. Nothing concrete yet, but I'll keep you posted on developments. (I think she's just trying to find a way to wrestle me away from the computer a couple of hours a day.)


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