Looking over all of my extensive lists I've made for this year, I'm curious to see what other people are thinking. What's your top five resolutions for the new year? Leave out "not die" if you're concerned about that by the end of the year.

Here's mine:

1. Complete animation reel! (Preferably in time to get my internship)

2. Write a *complete* script and complete, lengthy fanfic story (and post).

3. Get healthy and in shape! Hopefully by summer!

4. Move to the city/closer to school.

5. Go to Disneyland... because I deserve to have some fun this year, darn it.

1) Get pregnant

2) Lose weight/get healthier/lower my blood sugar levels so that I can persue fertility help to accomplise #1

3) Finish my novel that I am writing

4) Write more fanfic

5) Failing #1 - get a job and end this 3 year long unemployment

I thought I didn't have five resolutions, but when I got to thinking realized that they're even more. But here's my top 5:

1) Get in shape/ Exercise more (at least 4 hours per week)

2) Have a great idea for my masters thesis and start working on it

3) Visit my best friend (she moved to another country two years ago and I haven't had the chance to meet her new place)

4)Get in the 3% or merit list (it's a sort of honor roll in my college and has two types of monetary prizes for students. The students in the 3% receive about half of the tuition fee and the ones on the merit list receive the full value of the tuition fee times 5)

5) Become independent/ Get a (good) job

Those sound like good ones, ladies. Now you've got me thinking...

1) Exercise everyday.
2) Get my house organized.
3) Read 50 books this year.
4) Despite the insaneness of my kids's schedules, make time for activities I enjoy too:
a) finish quilt for son.
b) start quilt for daughter.
c) get back into fanfiction writing and finish at least one of the projects I've been working on for over a year.

Oops...forgot #5 Keep in touch with friends better.

oo1. Finish my memoir is at the top of my list, though I don't know that it will be checked off. Every time I get to a point where I think I might be done a section, I remember something or something recent happens and I think 'oh, this would be a fantastic example of such and such a thing.'

oo2. Graduate high school. I've been working on this one for far too long, but I'm actually close now (at 23 years old).

oo3. Practice the art of forgiveness because I've been holding grudges against a couple of people for a long time now, and the only person affected by my anger is myself.

oo4. Read more. 'nuff said?

oo5. Lose weight is on my list every year, and I'd like to because I gained some last year while on bed rest for several months, but I'm not making any unrealistic goals. If I lose 1lb or 20lbs, I'll be okay with whatever my body is going to be this year.

Only 100 movies? That's like 2 a week, except for 4 weeks when you watch 1. (52 weeks in a year x 2 = 104) unless you mean cutting down. Sigh, I remember way back when (before kids, lack of paycheck, and housepayment) when I went to the movies twice a week minimum. Miss that.

My resolutions:

1) Go to bed before midnight (easier with nothing to post , harder because it's the only quiet time during my day)

2) Go for a walk every day (drag son with me).

3) Don't wait until story is finished posting on boards to ready story for Archive. (Grumbling, half-way through re-editing ML...)

4) Try to treat myself out to the movies at the cinema more often (although, that's very dependant on Hollywood tempting me to go out)

5) Not be so addicted to this board and checking for new stories every hour (don't see that one happening though).

New movies. Or ones I haven't seen before. I'm realizing there's a lot of classics I haven't yet seen that I need to (thanks to film class), so I'm gonna work on some of those. And anything that comes out this year. And I realize that it's a low goal, so I'm thinking it's one I can actually do.

Good luck with your resolutions, people! Hope you all make it!

Last year marked the first one I made a resolution that I kept: Learn how to cook. Not that I've turned into a chef or anything, but I've familiarized myself with the kitchen and I can make a few things (that aren't eggs)!

Let's see how many of these I can pull off this year:

1. Get a job.

2. Exercise more.

3. Read and write more fanfic.

4. Finish writing an original novel.

5. Stop being a whiny girlfriend. (Okay, honestly, not sure how bent I am on this one. :p But I should.)

Bring the new year on!

1. Grow closer to God
2. Go to church every Sunday (broke this one last Sunday but try try again, right?)
3. Spend more quality time with my DH and DD
4. Find a job that pays more
5. Move to a different (and slightly bigger) house

Get a job. Anyone need a linix, perl, php programmer or sysadmin in MD or telecommute.

1. Don't mainline cocaine
2. Procrastinate as much as possible
3. Get a solid three hours of sleep a night - failing that, two hours of sleep a night - failing that, don't use cocaine to give me a boost the following day
4. Eat junk food as often as possible, and
5. No group sex (or at least no group sex of more than three people).

And I bet I even keep my resolutions.

ML

Too funny! (sad to say, I actually know some people that list would work for... )

Christmas is still coming before New Year but I had to check last year's resolutions to see what/ if something came true (and start planning for 2013).

I realized that there were some things on my top 5 I didn't remember, and while some came true, others were postponed or just haven't happened and won't happen.

So... 2012 resolution's outcomes:

1) Get in shape/ Exercise more (at least 4 hours per week) More or less check. Since October I started taking brisk walks that take me about 5 hours per week. It has somewhat paid off. I'm just too lazy to do more at the moment.

2) Have a great idea for my masters thesis and start working on it Next year maybe. No ideas yet...

3) Visit my best friend (she moved to another country two years ago and I haven't had the chance to meet her new place) Check.

4)Get in the 3% or merit list (it's a sort of honor roll in my college and has two types of monetary prizes for students. The students in the 3% receive about half of the tuition fee and the ones on the merit list receive the full value of the tuition fee times Nope. One grade slightly below the top mark and there goes my whole plan.

5) Become independent/ Get a (good) job Found a job in a good place. Moved out of my parents' house and to another town. For the first time I'm depending solely on myself. It feels really good (and I hope it lasts, especially in this economy).

What about the rest of you? Are all your resolutions fulfilled?

Nope. Can't say I did this more. Sadly.

I don't remember what they were for this year but the only one I suspect I would have made was to get my degree. Sadly that did not happen (and I was so close too!)

1. Continue to work my way back to my ideal weight. 6 stone* lost this year.

2. Manage to type at least one post without having to go back and fix the 95% of it which is typos before hitting send. Just one. I'm not greedy. Damn you, Nexus predictive text and gesture typing!

LabRat :-)

* 1stone = 14lbs

LabRat,

Congratulations! Losing so much weight is quite an accomplishment.

And when you lose all the weight you wish to, you will have left no stone unearned. (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

Joy,
Lynn

Aw, damn.

Well, that's disappointing. Been a long year, but hopefully (oh, god, I'm jinxing it, aren't I?) next year will go smoother. I did work on my animation reel, but ended up scrapping much of it because I've improved since then and would like to replace it with new ones... sigh. I read several books this year (which I ended up never posting...) but nowhere *near* 50 (I'm thinking I hit 13... I'll have to go back through and see). I did watch 100 movies ( or I will have after today's StarWars marathon ), and I did start trying to get healthier. Unfortunately, I believe I fell short on everything else...

Better start planning for 2013.