So, I usually abhor New Year's Resolutions. It's almost always an excuse to start anew a tradition of trying to change simply because 'it's a new year', when in reality it's just another day. I've always thought calenders were kind of a universal obsession with people the world over and it's easy to look at a new year and say "IT'S ALL GONNA CHANGE!". Mmm...no. For me, it's usually been just changing because I have to or because I want to (never) and it never really mattered to me what time of the year it was.
However, given that I've been sober for a while, and it started a few months ago, I thought I'd give in to this wildly stupid idea that the new year will bring new changes. So, I ask you, denizens of down to fuck town, do you have any resolutions that you think you will even remotely follow? Will you be participating for shits and giggles? Do you hate this shit like I once did, yo? Perhaps you're participating with a loved one or a ball-and-chain to get some poonani? That's a great way to use this weird tradition. It toats works...and...now that I think about it, can actually be a way to keep at the resolution, in all seriousness.
What say you, mofos!?
My own:
Stay sober. This means, no ganja, no alcohol (other than 1-2oz tastes of wine, which is pretty much mandatory for a sommelier, and most of the time they can be spit out), and no pills (I'll still take actual medicine if I'm sick, like I have been, but limit it to aspirin, ibuprofen, etc.). The purest form of sobriety, basically. Don't call it straight edge or I'll kill you with a straight edge razor. Cigs are a misnomer cause I've always hated them and other than once when I was trying to look cool for a girl at the age of 14, never smoked more than a couple. I think that's it. Also acid. No acid.
Lose fat; gain muscle. Another I've been working at since before the new year so it'll be easy to continue. I've lost about 15 pounds as it is (I'm 6'0" and right at 195 now) and I'm SLOOOOOWLY gaining muscle, but I'd like to up the mass a bit. Not a huge deal for me as much as the first resolution, but still important. This one isn't so much hard for me now with my sobriety well in check, but I'm putting a notch on it anyway. Weight has never really been an issue with me as much as it is the ratio of fat to muscle... I don't mind being 210 if that's all muscle.
The absolute hardest and the one I'm probably gonna throw down the drain: Go back to school, and/or get a new job that will pay for me to go to school. I've got some other jobs in mind that aren't so glorious, but that will pay for me to go back to school so I can eventually either move up the ladder in said job (oil industry, refineries) and then move to another position that isn't so straining but still great money. Either that, and this one is the longest shot of all, simply pay my way through school with the job I have now and find my way in what I want to actually do...which I still haven't the slightest fucking inkling of what that is. I make good money, but colleges are fucking planet-sized leeches at this point and I DO NOT want to be paying loans after I'm done. Once I'm done, I'm done. So this one is gonna be tough...
Last but not least: Masturbate more. Done and done. ONE DOWN.