Here It Is...

[izeveryboyin]

2009 New Year's Resolutions
1st Draft

1. Stop Smoking. For good.

2. New place.

3. Better job.

4. Minus 5 pounds.

5. Flat tummy.

6. New poetry.

7. Finish short stories.

8. Less sweets.

9. New car.

10. Finalize New York plans.

11. Finish books on must-read list. Begin new one.

12. Learn to cook.

13. Have a vacation.

14. Replenish my shoe collection without going overboard.

15. New puppy for Myla.

16. Patience.

17. Keep up with laundry.

18. Refrain from matricide.

19. Eat better.

20. Watch language.


*Updates and more to come soon. Got any to share?

[stilltrucking]

that's a list and a half dude
you covered everything on my list and then some
if I think of anything else I will add it.

Perhaps I would put special emphasis on # 20. I am trying to have more compassion for English majors.

[stilltrucking]

I got one
#21
Get my Christmas shopping done

I feel like such a traitor
I should be out there shopping
My nation is counting on me
To keep the economy going
Jobs are on the line
The very fabric of our civilization will unravel
I must over come off my hum buggery
I got to get off my @SS
& shop

Seriously

It is too late now
I must stay the course

two more days to Xmas
I must make my amends
catch me later
I got gifts to buy
For Christ's birthday
I can't afford to wait
To wait till spring
I got more money than time
I got thirty dollars in my wallet
Cash money

I would like to wish you the best of this season izz
happy everything and merry chirstmas too

I wish I could aford to buy you a a pair of shoes
so that
next time

you see
a secrete service guy go by
you could throw a shoe at him for me.

Them son of bitches were asleep at the switch if you ask me.
Which you did not. sorry
I do not mean to wish him any bad luck
I want them bastards to take good care of him
Cause he belongs to us.

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[izeveryboyin]

You are not the only late shopper. I got everything yesterday. My arms still hurt from all the bags. And my feet are still traumatized from the frostbite they received stepping in giant slush puddles. I am SO over this weather, and I am trying to have the holiday spirit in spite of it.

--k

[Doreen Peri]

that's an ambitious list, missy!

here's my list

1. swim more
2. walk more
3. computer less
4. write more
5. dance more
6. love more
7. get up in the morning more (yes, before noon, actually.. lol)
8. travel more
9. tickle the ivories more
10. paint more
11. laugh more
12. meditate more
13. read more
14. escape bullshit more


and that's all i can think of for now... i'll add more later maybe

[Doreen Peri]

stay warm & dry, kayla

merry christmas!

[stilltrucking]

Doreen wrote:

3. computer less

Oh yes, probably the top of my list. I am binging. My execuse is that this no time to diet. But starting next week, I got to get this computer off my back. Even weird dreams about it. Dreamt I had some kind of evil computer virsus that was not only taking over my computer but also my life.

I read somewhere that they sell special gloves to protect you from catching a computer virus from your keyboard. I also got a tin foil beanie with a propellor that protects me from wireless connections

I hope you both have a good time tonight

becareful out on the road, drunks everywhere.

[bennie2]

Hi Kayla,

New Year's resolutions are bullshit! But this year... I think I'm going to list some things... I'll mail these to everyone in my address book (all fucking 5 of them) and strive to fulfill/stick to them.

1. write more. now, this may be a creative resolution or an academic resolution or journalistic... I've decided to create a blog and my intention is to use it to write AT LEAST SOMETHING every day. I start a degree course (via open university) in Feb (english language and lit), which will "allow" me to write essays, assessments etc... but... you know what? I'm a good writer... I should write. so, academic and hopefully journalistic... I can fulfill these... creative?... I HOPE HOPE HOPE I can fulfill this... nothing has given me more pleasure in life (and I include sex, food, music and laughter in this) than writing something that I've felt is really worthwhile.

2. take more photographs. I'm not an arrogant or particularly confident person but, as above, I believe I'm good at this. I've neglected photography. I can't promise, or resolve, to take a photo each day but I will try to take "some" photos each week. I've given you my new blog above (to check my progess) so here's my flickr address (keep tabs on me and chastise me if you want) Futile Horn's Photos.

3. do more with my guitar. I bought my first guitar aged 13/14 (after hearing "live forever" by oasis on top of the pops and realising that, unlike michael jackson and my sister's new kids on the block, oasis looked like me... therefore, I could do that!) from Argos. My dad took me. He thought I was a fucking moron. Spending all that money (£30 for a Hohner classical guitar) on something that will "never pay your bills".... I'm self taught. I had one or two lessons in school a few years previous to this but I couldn't deal with the dry lessons (bad teacher?) so I gave it up until britpop and oasis and 1994. I can play a fair number of riffs, songs and made up "fuck-a-bouty" tunes but... don't ask me the chords, notes, scales, keys... because I don't have a fucking clue. I think this has restricted me. I can go here: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/ and search for things I want to learn... I will try to learn more about this instrument that's been by my side for 15/16 years.

4. work REALLY FUCKING HARD and do REALLY FUCKING WELL in this open university course , which starts in February 2009. I have a month to work myself up for this resolution...

5. read more. I have bought "fuck loads" of books in the past year... of which I've read... oh... 2 or three... and one of the ones I did read was given to my by a workmate! I just... I have One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in my satchel. I bought it the day I read that Solzhenitsyn had died. He was always on my "list of writers to read" and this reminded me... so I bought it. It's a small book. size wise! It's a small book! I started to read it but... my concentration... I don't sleep well... my mind wanders... I entertain myself with silly noises, thoughts, ideas... other things get in the way... maybe I wank too much... point is, it's a small novel. I should have read it in a week! Months later, however... Number five with a bullet: read more! I'm going to start with a) the work for my first class, and b) the books in my bookcase that haven't even been opened yet... lazy!

that's it. I really don't think I can, or that I want to, change anything else about me. I'm a fairly decent sort of guy and... I think most changes happen as per experience, therefore, what the fuck's the point in "planning" a change? you live it and you change... hence my statement at the top that New Year's resolutions are bullshit.

Kayla, I'll keep an eye on you, if you keep an eye on me!

[hester_prynne]

1. Continue smoking in moderation.
2. Be grateful for my job and turn it into something I like.
3. Be patient about the things I don't have yet. (which is just about everything...)
4. Practice friendliness
5. Be more willing to meet people.
6. Stop wanting to go back in time.
7. Have faith in myself.
8. Be generous when I can.
9. Keep writing
10. Eat whatever I want.

Those are mine.
Happy new Year all!!!!!
Smooch Smooch,
H