Okay, fine. I will tell some of my new year's resolutions. I am so not big on this stuff and have gotten wise enough to know that I should keep my resolutions manageable.
1. Drink water. Sometimes, especially at work, I get dehydrated, with pee the color of orange juice. That is just stupid. I will drink enough water each day. One half gallon, at least.
2. Eat my veggies and fruits, raw. Why am I not doing this? I have no idea, but I'm gonna fix that.
3. I am going to design a strategy to remember people's names. I am the worst at this, it is utterly humiliating. Who has a good plan to help me with this?
4. Buy no books for myself (unless it is with a gift card). This is hard because I really like how-to books. Damn.
5. Do more stuff with my kid. I need to be pragmatic about this, operationalize it. I am starting off by doing a whole lesson/adventure/project about the otters who are living in our pond.
That's it. Let's hear it, people. Don't you dare leave me hanging out here exposing myself and then you just click on over to somebody else's goofball post on their way more deep and compelling blog.
ETA: 6. Go out on more dates with my husband. We had two dates this past week and it was fabulous.
12 comments:
Usually my only resolutions are to get the holiday weight off.
I too am horrible at remembering names, and I've found that the only thing that works with me is to say the person's name as many times as I can out loud in immediate conversation with them.
"Nice to meet you, Jeff." "What do you do, Jeff?" "So, Jeff, what do you think of all this rain?"
Sometimes I will tell "Jeff" why I keep saying "Jeff's" name, and Jeff is usually understanding, especially since Jeff has already forgotten my name.
The buying no books thing is one DH should think about. Our house is cluttered with books everywhere. Also, the sad thing is that he always asks for a B&N gift cards for xmas gifts for himself. Chrisser, do you have an ebook reader? If not, maybe you should look into getting one. You can download many books for free from the library. No clutter and no money. It's a win-win!
Ha! Lori- that is awesome. I soooo need to do that. I'm HORRIBLE as well. Really, really. I forget friends' names kids ALL THE TIME. Just ask Deirdre. I just called her newest addition "Isaac." That is not his name.
I need to think about mine...
I'm going to drink more water, too.
I'm not going to put food in the sink. It's my husband's pet peeve. I really need to work on that.
Wow. That is really boring. I need to jazz it up a bit.
Hmmm....
I'm smelling a haiku brewing.
The first step to remembering names is to quit saying you are bad at it. Start telling yourself you are good at it. Trick your brain - it works. Then go with Lori's idea. Also, how often do you meet someone with a novel name? Not very often, when you meet the next Mike, immediatly tell yourself he is Mike but nothing like Mike XX because of yy. Hopefully yy is something you can see or know about him that you will remember which will trigger the thing. I am so helpful. I might write a How To Remember Names book - but you wouldn't buy it anyway.
My word verification is "Ow Bra" I have a couple of those. Maybe my resolution should be to throw away all of my Ow Bras and Yuck panties.
Listen you goofball, I don't really do resolutions but for you, I have some things I'd like to do better:
1) Drink more water too so when I pee I don't feel like shards of glass are shooting through my legs.
2) Be on the computer less.
3)Shave my legs more often.
Oh and GET CHICKENS come late spring summer.
This year, I'm making mine big and impossible and wild, so that I might try harder to actually keep them. I will share, but I'm working on it, still thinking... For sure mine will have to do with:
1) yoga, 6 days a week.
2) get my own place to live. I will NOT let 2012 end and still be living in the same space as my ex-husband!!! This is poisoning my soul, suffocating me.
3) run Boston
4) clean the closets and everything else and keep it all clean, always. ha! at least I will when I have my own place.
5) be PRESENT with my kids, give them my full attention more often, read to them more.
6) I will stop "settling" in my personal life and make space for something real... eventually.
7)first 21 days of 2012 I will follow Quantum Wellness by Kathy Freston -- no refined sugar, no alcohol, no caffeine, no animal products, no gluten.
There. See, I didn't leave you exposed, at least not alone. ;) I might have to copy and paste to my own blog!
I did not need to know what color your pee is. Seriously.
BTW. My name is Leigh.
I don't make New Years resolutions, but will just for the sake of posting a comment, haha. I like the idea of making them big and lofty and therefore nearly unobtainable; that way I will feel no guilt when they don't happen.
1. Drink more water.
2. Go through all the boxes that are still sitting unopened in our basement and organize them.
3. Take a bunch of stuff to an antique shop to sell, and donate the rest. I am at the age where I know I will never use some of the stuff I have accumulated for my "collections."
4. Get enough sleep.
5. Get a smartphone and learn how to use it. I am so technologically backward that 1970 is looking about my speed at this point.
That's all for now. I'm going to try to get a jump on resolution #4.
Maggie
Leigh made me laugh...till I almost peed....purple ;)
Love your resolutions, and all the comments are cracking me up! Especially that woman, I think her name starts with L.
I'm with you on the water. I have resolved to stop buying sprite zero. It is evil in sugarless, bubbly form. Even though it is delicious, it's WRONG. From now on it's water. And tea. And coffee.
But mostly water.
Ok... "s" had me laughing so hard I almost peed in my pants... Leigh was funny too, and actually they were all funny. You have funny readers.
Mine, to exercise... Must find time and motivation to exercise....
And what constitutes a date? Good for you if you had two in one week!
Kate
Buy no books for yourself@@@!! Mama. Pooh mama.
I need to drink more water, undoubtedly. Oh god I need to drink more water.
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