New Years Resolutions

[raw456]

My list for 2011:

1. complete the City to Surf marathon
2. make time everyday to practise my music
3. continue my fitness regime and keep losing the kg's
4. read more

[The Last to Know]

My 2011 resolutions:

Potty train at least three of my four cats. <----this is the most important one
Start walking & lose a bit of weight (maybe 20 or 30 pounds)
Study more this coming semester & hope I don't get as frustrated with the papers I might have to write.

[Kanalah]

I guess I have goals...

So anyway,

1. Check CS.com more often cause you guys are awesome!
2. Clean out my sewing area. This would include making a ton of quilts that I've been putting off/and selling off some fabric that I know I won't use.
3. Pricing my work so that I make more then 50 cents per hour.

4. I'm actually seriously considering going back to school. Now that I've had some time off to decide, and I've found a program I might enjoy. Only problem is that they only admit 45 students per year and classes only start in the fall. So I'll have to keep kicking myself in the butt for that one.

And of course, spending less time with Mom/Dad/Siblings/other stressful people, and more time with people that make me feel happy and appreciated.

[Jester]

The most important resolution I can make...

...which I should have made in my first post. To wit: try to be less of an asshole.

Now, I am not talking about the good kind of asshole, wherein I stick it to people who seriously deserve it (i.e., SC's, corporate suits, pretentious assholes, boys who date my nieces, etc.).

No, I am talking about being less of an asshole to people who DON'T deserve it. Like my friends, (some of) my family (most of) my coworkers....and you fine folks here at CS.com.

It seems, my friends, that I was pretty much a dickbag in my earlier post in this thread. While it was not intentional (I often speak/type without bothering to actually, you know, THINK), it was also not excusable. So I will not make excuses. I will, however, attempt to make amends. Specifically:

So I resolve to not drink during 2011! Wish me luck

No. I won't do that. I believe in drinking, and I wish more people would drink more. So I hope you fail in this.

Me, I pledge to drink MORE.

I was trying to be funny here. I believe I often AM funny, but here I clearly failed miserably. Funny would have been something more along the lines of this: "And I resolve to drink more. May we both succeed in our endeavors." What I actually said, though, telling someone that I hoped they failed in something important enough to them to make a resolution for, was clearly fucked up.

Customersruinmylife, I'm sorry. My comments were idiotic. I do hope that you succeed in your goals, both this one and others, and that you'll forgive my pathetic attempt at humor. It was not meant at all maliciously. Obviously, my head was firmly ensconced in my rectum.

Moving on....

-GET A GIRLFRIEND. This is extremely important.

Why is that so important? Really, now....don't stress on this.

This was meant in good faith. I have seen so many people, both male and female, stress out about wanting to get a boyfriend/girlfriend/married, and I myself have done this to ridiculous degrees in my past. Because of that, I was trying to tell Dave to relax and enjoy life and not stress over this facet.

There are two problems here. First, this was obviously important to Dave, whatever I may think of his stress levels. Secondly, and more obviously, Dave never asked for advice on this. He was merely posting a resolution important to him. (More on this below...)

Dave, my bad, dude. While I have the right to remain silent, apparently I don't always have the ability. I do hope that you'll pardon my obnoxiousness.

Moving right along...

I will make friends with other mothers so Khan can have more kids to play with (it's really hard for me to make friends).

You don't have to be FRIENDS with them for your little 'un to be friends with their little 'un. You just have to be friendLY.

Once again, here I am giving advice where none was asked for. Since there are a myriad of possible reasons why AnaKhouri was making this resolution, and I could not possibly know what her reasons were, my offering advice here is presumptuous.

AnaKhouri, I apologize. I stuck my nose where I had no business sticking it. Feel free to smack it like you would that of a misbehaving dog. (I'll even get you a newspaper for that purpose.)

With both Dave and AnaKhouri, I threw out advice where none was sought. As was pointed out to me by a very wise and sage person, unsolicited advice can be fucking annoying. And while I often can be fucking annoying, I would like to think it is to people who warrant it, not people just innocently commenting on their lives by way of New Year's Resolutions.

I have no doubt that there will be times in the future where my mouth (or keyboard) doesn't always check in with my brain. When that happens, feel free to call me on it, any and all of you. If you prefer to do it privately, by all means, PM me. I really am a (mostly) nice guy. If you prefer to go to the mods with my assclownish behavior, please do that. Because the last thing I want from my time on this site is to piss people off because I was an unthinking fuckwad. We are here because we all deal with unthinking fuckwads who piss us off at work. We shouldn't have to do it here as well.

I often jokingkly say, "I'm an idiot." Sometimes, though, I really am. This situation is a prime example of that. And I resolve to try to be less of an idiot to you fine folks. (My nieces' dates are another story.) And I hope you will help me in that endeavor.

[Ree]

Jester, I prefer to think of you as one of a kind.
Sometimes, I thank God for that. LOL

It was very decent of you to offer your apologies.

[Dave1982]

My stress levels regarding that issue aren't NEARLY as bad as they were 8 months ago, but it is still important to me.

And Jester.....thank you. Few people would apologize like that, so you get a lot of credit for that.

[AnaKhouri]

Thanks. I wasn't offended or anything though, so no worries.

[Bella_Vixen]

I'll go with losing weight.

Unfortunately, I drink so little soda that I no longer lose weight from not drinking it.

On the upside, I'm looking into a pill that helps you crave sugar less. I'd post the name of whatever it is, but it's in my email, and I'm on Firefox, not AOL (don't hate) at the moment. I've read that people have lost 15 pounds in 45 days when taking these pills.


I also want to be nicer. I think I'll need to get away from my current place of employment for this.


Edit: The pills are Gymnema sylvestre.

[Jester]

Jester, I prefer to think of you as one of a kind.
Sometimes, I thank God for that. LOL

You and many others. And I'm not even counting some of my more entertaining exes.

It was very decent of you to offer your apologies.

No. It was the right thing to do. Period. No more than that. Therefore it was the only thing to do.

My stress levels regarding that issue aren't NEARLY as bad as they were 8 months ago, but it is still important to me.

And Jester.....thank you. Few people would apologize like that, so you get a lot of credit for that.

I appreciate that, Dave, but I don't think I deserve credit. I was merely attempting to right a wrong of my own making. That is something that needed to be done, so I did it.

What other people would have done has no bearing on that. Period.

Thanks. I wasn't offended or anything though, so no worries.

I would rather apologize for offensive comments that did not offend than not apologize and risk someone being offended. If that makes sense. These comments, unlike the earlier ones, are heavily clouded by beer, so I am aiming for the bullseye of clarity, but fear I may be hitting the outer rim of "Huh?"

[persephone]

Mine's a little weird, but I've noticed in the past few months there are lots of things I want my daughter to know that I wish someone had told me before I learned it the hard way.

So my NYR was to write a letter to my daughter every day, telling her something I want her to know.

[Jack T. Chance]

I just finally solidified my list of Resolutions for 2011 this morning:

• Continue my exploration of the first couple generations of heavy metal bands by buying some more Iron Maiden albums, and possibly some Judas Priest.
• Get out to a couple metal concerts this year, especially if I can support local bands that I like in the process.
• Find a better job, if that's even possible for me.
• Make some upgrades to my computer equipment that are long overdue.
• Make the time to play through Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age: Origins.
• Finally get it through my head once and for all that I truly don't think like anyone else on this planet, that I'm far too different from the rest of the human race to ever have the life I truly want... and try to find some way to finally make my peace with that... which I doubt I'll ever be able to do.

Yeah, that's everything I can think of right now.

[shadowpanda]

[*]Finally get it through my head once and for all that I truly don't think like anyone else on this planet, that I'm far too different from the rest of the human race to ever have the life I truly want... and try to find some way to finally make my peace with that... which I doubt I'll ever be able to do. [/list]Yeah, that's everything I can think of right now.

I don't think you will be the only person in the world who thinks the way you do, there are a lot of people in the world, but you may not live in a society that accepts some stuff.

My boyfriend would love to operate on a 26 hour day, as that what his body wants him to do. Unfortunately, the rest of the world operates on a 24 hour day so living the way he wants to, would have major consequences for him and everyone around him.

Is there anything you can do, even if it's small stuff, that would be able to help you live the life you want to?

[AnaKhouri]

Continue my exploration of the first couple generations of heavy metal bands by buying some more Iron Maiden albums, and possibly some Judas Priest.

Do you listen to Death? They are one of the first metal bands and the first one I know of that had death growl vocals. They were around in the early 1980's. My husband, a huge metal freak, adores them. You may not like death growl vocals though; I can take them for a while but not an entire album!

[Becks]

Get a job!!!!!!!!!