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If so, can I have the url? If not, then what will you be pretending to achieve over the next 12 months?

― Mark C (Mark C), Sunday, 29 December 2002 22:57 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm taking up smoking

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 29 December 2002 23:21 (twenty-three years ago)

To increase my research into recreational chemistry.

― Eugene Speed (Eugene Speed), Sunday, 29 December 2002 23:30 (twenty-three years ago)

nun of your own gawdamm business.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 30 December 2002 00:06 (twenty-three years ago)

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― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Monday, 30 December 2002 00:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Admirable!

I am going to get my career back on track, give my all to my relationship, help others. Gah, I'm making *myself* feel nauseous, but I am Mr sincere and unimaginative, so...

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 30 December 2002 00:07 (twenty-three years ago)

More sex, drinking, and smoking.

Actually it's get a job and lose 30 pounds. And work on on my craft projects!

― rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 30 December 2002 01:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Lose 130 lbs

― Honda (Honda), Monday, 30 December 2002 01:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm somewhat serious about "more sex," by which I mean find a new relationship. And yes, getting a new job and exercising more are also on the list.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 30 December 2002 01:51 (twenty-three years ago)

The same resolution I make every weekend.

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 30 December 2002 01:54 (twenty-three years ago)

As with lent, I'm giving up, giving up. Instead I plan on doing stuff... lots of stuff. Suggestions welcomed.

― Celeste (Celeste), Monday, 30 December 2002 02:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Lose weight, stop losing everything else, become less shit at job, hope for next year to be less shit than last two, not moan about it too much on ILX when it inevitably isn't, occasionally do something - anything - that isn't sitting and staring at the internet... you know, the usual.

(Those are my resolutions, not what Celeste should do with her life, although if she'd like to do my job better than I currently do [this is not very complicated, just turning up most days would be an improvement] then she is of course very welcome to do it for me so I have more time to sit around reading messageboards and embarrassing myself on them, putting on weight, and losing CD inlays behind the computer.)

― Rebecca (reb), Monday, 30 December 2002 03:25 (twenty-three years ago)

same as last year, which i failed miserably at.

― di smith (lucylurex), Monday, 30 December 2002 05:24 (twenty-three years ago)

To write it all down, so I can remember what happens in 2003!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 30 December 2002 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Eat healthier, smoke less, freelance more, save up some money, travel, write more songs, take up photography, maybe paint a bit, start a blog.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 30 December 2002 16:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Exercise is the big thing for me. Also, start another activity besides singing (this may be exercise, haha).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 30 December 2002 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmmm...
Lose 15 pounds. (any of you lost that much weight in a year? If so, tell me how!)
Exercise more (part of first resolution).
Start a savings account.
Go on tour.
Be more of a happy-go-lucky person.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 30 December 2002 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

-learn to drink in moderation
-not have a relationship, and be content with that
-invest the same amount of energy into friendships as the other person- ie, spend more time/effort on loyal friends, and stop bothering with/ obsessing about non-reciprocal people.

oh yeah, and find a job and start/join a new band.

― masonicboom, Monday, 30 December 2002 16:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm going to try and pass my driving test, finally.

― chris (chris), Monday, 30 December 2002 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)

More fun. I'm told that I'm in line for promotion at work too, late in the coming year, so I guess I'll try to make sure that happens, as more money would be great.

Relationships are the most important thing, but I'm not sure where I am there at present, so don't know where to aim. As for friends, keep the old ones, see some of them a bit more often, and I hope continue to make friends through this place.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 30 December 2002 18:48 (twenty-three years ago)

For things to work out, generally.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 30 December 2002 18:54 (twenty-three years ago)

(Which damnit, isn't a resolution, just a wish. To make things work out well and not fuck things up)

― Graham (graham), Monday, 30 December 2002 18:55 (twenty-three years ago)

eat more fruit and less pasta, lose enough weight to fit into my old pants, walk and play with the dog more, get to the end of my russian text, become flexible enough to do a horizontal split, write a story i'm really proud of.

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 30 December 2002 20:29 (twenty-three years ago)

- lose 85 lbs.
- get out of Wheaton
- get a job
- see doctors and attempt to resolve health issues
- obtain some form of a social life
- spend less than 10 hours on the internet a day
- write a book
- actually go through with it and live in England for half the year (and not just dream about it)
- get my first kiss (not sure how to go about this one. don't want to force myself upon unsuspecting strangers)
- write more about music
- leave my house more often
- not be so terribly snobbish and judgmental
- figure out how to be closer to my sister and more helpful to my mother
- apply to universities
- answer emails within the week they are received
- be nicer and more talkative to the people on the internet who care about me
- learn not to be so self-conscious of appearance when out in public
- learn how not to have panic attacks every time I pass my old high school or see people from high school
- try not to be crippled by worry about everything imaginable, especially things that have absolutely nothing to do with me
- read more books, learn more about literature
- learn Romanian for no reason whatsoever
- take up painting again
- write songs
- learn more music and art history
- develop perfect pitch
- find something that actually makes me happy and gives me direction in life

I've got my work cut out for me.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Monday, 30 December 2002 20:36 (twenty-three years ago)

good luck melissa! that's a lot to do, seems like direction in itself for now. (and if you figure out how to develop perfect pitch, please share!)

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 30 December 2002 20:38 (twenty-three years ago)

To e-mail many new features/ reviews editors and make them love me (or at least give me things to write).
To be less messy, tidy isn't really an option, so less messy will do.
Reduce size of overdraft instead of buying shoes and 12 quid lipsticks.
And ...
to save enough money to get to America and Canada (NYC, Chicago and Montreal, fancy a pint much later in 2003?)

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 30 December 2002 20:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, and I've forgotten:

- get my driver's license
- actually take GED (instead of just assuring myself I could take it anytime and do spectacularly well)
- stop being so squeamish about so many things
- try to find something else in life to truly love besides Radiohead
- try not to mention Radiohead on this board so much
- try to post more and more indepth on this board
- try not to feel like I'm inflicting myself upon people

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Monday, 30 December 2002 20:44 (twenty-three years ago)

- lose 15 lbs
- stop smoking
- drink less
- party less
- all in all it means be healthier and less of a disaster.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 04:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Make more money at writing (I've set an amount).
Finish the novel currently in progress, the "I'm actually going to try to sell this one" novel as opposed to last year's "just going to get over the hump of writing a novel" novel.
Be more smarterer at stuff.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 04:55 (twenty-three years ago)

-lose a little weight
-manage my finances better
-get a new job
-write something, anything, without being so critical of myself that I end up trashing it before anyone else sees it
-stop procrastinating

How successful I will be I have no idea. I would also like to steal Melissa's resolution try not to feel like I'm inflicting myself upon people, because I feel this way far too often.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 05:14 (twenty-three years ago)

ally you don't need to lose 15 lbs!!

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 05:15 (twenty-three years ago)

i actually don;t want to quit smoking.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 05:24 (twenty-three years ago)

i am not an idiot, i just have other things to take care of first. the more shit i burden myself with, the less i accomplish. i know i am not unique in that respect.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 05:26 (twenty-three years ago)

- party more
- drink more

and im thinking that jels resolution is a great idea

― Chupa-Cabras (vicc13), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 05:32 (twenty-three years ago)

i can't make resolutions. i partake of self-flagellation far too much as it is to set myself up with promises I know I won't keep.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 05:35 (twenty-three years ago)

- lose 4 inches off my waistline before the wedding so I can actually look at the photos for the rest of my life. Keep off however much weight that turns out to be.
- eat more healthily.
- start CLUB FREAKY TRIGGER with Carsmile
- learn more about cooking. Cook more.
- stay in the black for more than half the year (itself an improvement on 2001's none of the year).
- write more.
- redesign NYLPM and FT.
- not be such a slob.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

It's amazing how skipping over the words "in" and "the" can drastically change the meaning of a sentence...

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 16:51 (twenty-three years ago)

- start CLUB FREAKY TRIGGER with Tom
- go to Glasgow and Embra
- oh, and Paris, although not necessarily in the same trip
- earn as much as i spend (again, although i was doing ok until a couple of months ago)
- sort out pension (saddest resolution ever...)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Confidential to Rosemary and Ally: Of course you should do it if it makes you happy, but unless you've changed drastically since the last time I saw you, there's no cosmetic reason that either of you should want to lose weight. In my opinion.

I don't have any resolutions. It'd be nice to get out of the city more this coming year.

― Paul Eater (eater), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 17:14 (twenty-three years ago)

- lose 15 lbs
-- Ally ([email protected]), December 30th, 2002.

Are you INSANE???

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 17:14 (twenty-three years ago)

stop smoking (i'm down to two-four a day and will stop completely within the next two weeks).

get published a few more times maybe.

sleep more.

stop being such an egotistical prick.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 17:29 (twenty-three years ago)

You're down to 24? Oh, two TO four, nevermind...

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 18:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Dear Paul,
Would you please tell this to my grandmother?
love,
rosemary

(My main reason for wanting to lose weight is because I gained a bit this year, and I just want my clothes to fit again.)

― rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 18:57 (twenty-three years ago)

My New Year's Resolutions include (but are not limited to):

*make love to a woman whose last name is unknown to me
*get out of America, even if it's just for one or two days
*do at least one new thing every single day

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 19:09 (twenty-three years ago)

We have so much confusion!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 19:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally, you want to lose 15 pounds too?! 85 pounds, Melissa?? Maybe I should do something more like Maria's goal to lose enough weight to fit into my old pants. I have these awesome vintage jeans that I was only able to wear for a couple of months after I bought them 2 years ago. If only I could fit those jeans... *sigh* I would be SO fuckin cool!
I watched "Superstar- the Karen Carpenter Story" last night so now my resolution is freaking me out. How can one try to lose weight without worrying about getting an eating disorder? Or exercise-a-mania or whatever the hell that's called? Hmmm... I have a sister that's struggled with eating disorders for years and years now. Sadly, people tend to think she looks grebt now and they tell her that too so I don't see how that will ever end... But anyway... Yeah. Anyone seen that K.C. movie? With the barbie dolls?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 20:07 (twenty-three years ago)

quit smoking in March when the hammer falls in NYC.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 20:09 (twenty-three years ago)

What hammer?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 20:12 (twenty-three years ago)

how much pounds there is in a kilo?

― Chupa-Cabras (vicc13), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 20:19 (twenty-three years ago)

- travel more
- write more
- don't procrastinate as much

― Jen (nstop), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 20:19 (twenty-three years ago)

hammer = smoking outlawed in all bars and restaurants in NYC

Only exceptions are if the bar owner is the only employee, or the venue is being used for a private event.

― Jen (nstop), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 20:21 (twenty-three years ago)

4.5 lbs = kilo (more or less)

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 20:33 (twenty-three years ago)

!!!!!!

2.2 lbs = 1 Kg.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 20:42 (twenty-three years ago)

audio visual assistance

― brg30 (brg30), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 21:31 (twenty-three years ago)

get in shape. party more; get piss drunk less. create something. date someone who looks and acts unlike everyone else that i've ever been with. get a job that i enjoy. etc. etc. ad nauseum.

― , Wednesday, 1 January 2003 00:10 (twenty-three years ago)

85 pounds, Melissa??
I weigh 220 lbs. and I'm 5'4".

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Wednesday, 1 January 2003 00:55 (twenty-three years ago)

°survive in Auckland (see : escaping my paltry debt with my paltry means)
°attempt another imageshift/reinvention/whatevah (a new life in a new town, etc)
°get over my fear of posting on ILx, haha
°consolidate my Japanese & attempt French/Maori/German/Russian before my brain ossifies
°oh yeah & not fail the [excised] year in a row at university (student loan as original sin in nz, anyone?)
°&so on.

― Ess Kay (esskay), Wednesday, 1 January 2003 09:37 (twenty-three years ago)

esskay do you have AIM? ps i am disturned by how many ILx women want to lose weight. yr all gorgeous. and i should know

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 1 January 2003 10:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not insane.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 1 January 2003 14:36 (twenty-three years ago)

- Gain weight.
- Become more patient.
- Discover modesty.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 1 January 2003 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

*Do some kind of not-small creative project every month
*Exercise for an hour a day (note: this resolution only applies to January; after that I'll renegotiate)
*Learn to drink
*Read a book every week
*Keep my private diary every day
others TBD, uh, today.

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 1 January 2003 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

stop going on ILX so much.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 1 January 2003 20:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Make money from writing, write more, get to write for a magazine like I know I can. Do some radio, take over the world, marry beautiful woman, feel less guilty about drugs.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 1 January 2003 22:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm gonna take up skateboarding.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 1 January 2003 22:23 (twenty-three years ago)

-- travel more!
-- finish my master's and then get a real job!
-- practice guitar!
-- take up piano again!
-- write more letters!
-- start a band!
-- read more comic books!

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 2 January 2003 08:17 (twenty-three years ago)

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