Happy New Thread - v. Resolutions

[Elite]

I think all around the globe we're in 2021 now, happy new year to my favourite online community!

It's almost 11 in the morning here. Hope everyone had a good night. Take care and hopefully this year will be better than the last!



Also post your resolutions; I have yet to think of some

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

Happy New Year DTF, the best community on ze internet! 

[mike099]

Happy New Year!

My resolution is to eat less carbs and kick it up a notch on my exercise routine.

[Spiritus]

Happy New Year, as per tradition of 5 years I slept threw it.

[Kotowboy]

I saw in the New year with jelly babies, coca cola, TNG on Netflix and a bar of chocolate.   

I don't do parties and i'm straightedge so i'd rather have a nice coffee than an alcoholic bevvy.

Went to bed at 0130 and got up at 0800 so I could watch the new Discovery and have an early morning walk in the sunshine. 

Although I don't want to upset anyone - but in one year from today - it's 2020 II


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As for resolutions - i've lived in the countryside near the beaches for 6 years now. I badly want to move back to the city - I last lived there 20 years ago almost exactly

and it was the last time I remember being truly happy. So yeah I kinda wanna try to recapture that.

Hopefully by the end of this year i'll be well on my way. #WishmeLuckPlease

[Elite]

Although I don't want to upset anyone - but in one year from today - it's 2020 II

Oh yeah, we’re definitely in for some shit still, but I’m positive that we’ll get better this year. Surely not right away. I mean, the world doesn’t work like that, but in a few months or before the end of the year, I hope stuff is better. I wonder how much of the world goes back to how it was before 2020, and how much of the current status quo will remain.

#WishmeLuckPlease

Good luck!

[Kotowboy]

 

Well at least HE will no longer be in charge so that's one huge positive.

[WildRanger]

Happy New year, 2021.
And let's send the previous year to garbage dump!

[MirrorMask]

Stayed at home because of the restrictions.

I dedicated the evening to my most important musical discovery of the year, Bruce Springsteen - watched his Broadway show on Netflix and the first song I heard in 2021 was The Rising, let's hope it's the year in which we'll rise above the pandemic.

Oh, and at midnight I screamed "Jumanji" to get out of the game 

[lonestar]

I was asleep by 10pm. Woke up to 6 bones in my bank account. Well played 2021.


Happy new year you filthy animals.

[jingle.boy]

jingle.family made it to 12:10am.  Our usual routine is dinner and a movie, so we held to that ... just in the basement this year.  Played some games as well, and flipped back and forth between Ryan Seacrest and Andy Cohen/Anderson Cooper (funny to see the latter two really hammered).

Resolutions ... none really, just not gonna pound back the sweets and alcohol like I did in December.  I never really do "new year" resolutions - what's the point of waiting for Jan 1 if you want to make a change in yourself?

[Zydar]

Happy new year DTF!

Hmm resolutions.... I guess it's to keep up the new healthier lifestyle I started last year, which means exercising and cutting back on fat and sugar. I never touch alcohol anyway. I might even kick up the exercising a notch or two.

[ReaperKK]

Happy New Year DTF.

The wife and I spent the night eating various cheese and drinking some champagne, nothing crazy.

As for new years resolutions, to lose weight (I have a bet with my brother on this one), get better at guitar, and save enough so I can get a weekend car.

[hunnus2000]

Happy New Year DTF peeps!

Here's to a boring year! 

Resolutions - Diet and exercise.

[Kotowboy]

  I need to lighten up ! It's winter time in the UK and I get really bad panic and anxiety which doesn't help when there's hardly any daylight.

But I promise a lot of my posts are heavily sarcastic and it's hard to tell in text form. 

[Adami]

[Adami]

I need to lighten up ! It's winter time in the UK and I get really bad panic and anxiety which doesn't help when there's hardly any daylight.

But I promise a lot of my posts are heavily sarcastic and it's hard to tell in text form. 

I dunno if you know this already, but they make special lights for seasonal affective disorder. Not sure how easy they are to get in the UK but I'm sure they're around. They seem to help quite a bit, but don't use them if you have a diagnosis of bi-polar disorder, as it might mess with the manic/hypomanic episodes.

[Phoenix87x]

Resolutions:

1. If Open Mic is ever allowed again in my area, I would like to try that

2. Get to Blue Belt in jiu jitsu

3. Do ayahuasca or psilocybin and try to heal unresolved childhood issues

[Kotowboy]

Apparently it's 21 past 8 ?!

[Kotowboy]

I don't know if i'm bipolar but I do crave daylight. I can't sit indoors if it's sunny outside.

[Adami]

I don't know if i'm bipolar but I do crave daylight. I can't sit indoors if it's sunny outside.

Then I’d say look at the therapeutic lights. They’re pretty helpful for just that.

[Kotowboy]

😊

[Elite]

Wow, I'm only now seeing I accidentally named this thread 'Happy New Thread' instead of 'Happy New Year'

[Kotowboy]

Eh it still works

[dparrott]

Looking forward to a full year of sports again!  No sports last summer really sucked.

[hunnus2000]

Looking forward to a full year of sports again!  No sports last summer really sucked.

Amen brutha, aaaaaaaamen!

[MirrorMask]

Wow, I'm only now seeing I accidentally named this thread 'Happy New Thread' instead of 'Happy New Year'

My brain didn't realize it and basically autocorrected it in my head, 'cause I didn't notice it until you wrote it 

[ReaperKK]

3. Do ayahuasca or psilocybin and try to heal unresolved childhood issues

Not to derail this thread, we can take it to pm, but have you done ayahuasca or psilocybin?

[Lethean]

Revenge319's resolution: to finish his roulette before... the pandemic is over?

[Phoenix87x]

3. Do ayahuasca or psilocybin and try to heal unresolved childhood issues

Not to derail this thread, we can take it to pm, but have you done ayahuasca or psilocybin?

Just sent u a pm

If it didn’t go through just let me know and i can send it again

[kirksnosehair]

I quit making New Years resolutions about 20 years ago.  They're pointless.  If I need to change something about myself, I change it, I don't save it up so I can change it based on some calendar date. 


That said, I don't begrudge anyone for doing it.  In 1996 I smoked my last cigarette on New Year's Eve and haven't smoked (um tobacco, that is    ) since.  So resolutions can certainly be useful.

[Elite]

I think the symbolic date for resolutions in that at the beginning of the year, you can set a goal for yourself that you achieve by the end of the year.

Also post your resolutions; I have yet to think of some

Okay then;

- practice guitar every single day for at least half an hour - preferably more. If not 'practice', then at least 'play'
(bit of a pointless goal, since I did this in 2020 as well - every day except for December 25th)

- spend more time studying

- I really want to get going as a session player, but people have no idea I even exist, so I have to find a way to get that started up some way. I know because of the pandemic there's barely any opportunities to play anyway and there's probably tons of people eager to jump in when something gets available, but I feel like I really want to spend time and effort to get to play with random others in basically whatever projects are there

- also record more music, because I want to get better at that

[Stadler]

I'm in a weird mood this year; I generally don't do "resolutions" - I'm with Barry and Chad on this - but this year in particular.  We stayed home and honestly I didn't even watch the festivities.   I got tired in November of the "2020 sucks!" tropes and in the last week there hasn't been a year end show that didn't use the word "hope" 15,000 times.  "Hope" is not a strategy.  Things don't change just because the year/date changes.   We still think the other side is a bunch of loonies/racists/commies/deplorables, we're still pointing fingers at the other guy while making our own choices that suit us best (the same thing the other guy is doing, if you didn't pick up on that), we're still burying our faces in our phones, we're still letting social media drive our choices...

I don't know; I'm not a negative person, I still, even after 53 years, believe anything is possible, but hearing about Andy Cohen (who I like, generally, and who should absolutely know better) getting hammered and screaming at Bill DiBlasio on national TV tells me that 2020, 2021, 2022... it's all going to be the same.   

[kirksnosehair]

Not a resolution, per se, but in the last couple of years I have developed a very, very strong disgust with social media in general, but Twitter in particular.  It's a fucking cesspool.  I started avoiding it and actually removed the app from my iPhone last year and it was one of the best decisions I ever made.  My level of missing it is somewhere between 0 and less than 0. 


Facebook isn't quite as bad and I need it to keep in touch with my kid/grandkids but even on there, I scroll past more ignorant fucking stupidity than I can sometimes believe.

[jingle.boy]

Not a resolution, per se, but in the last couple of years I have developed a very, very strong disgust with social media in general, but Twitter in particular.  It's a fucking cesspool.  I started avoiding it and actually removed the app from my iPhone last year and it was one of the best decisions I ever made.  My level of missing it is somewhere between 0 and less than 0. 


Facebook isn't quite as bad and I need it to keep in touch with my kid/grandkids but even on there, I scroll past more ignorant fucking stupidity than I can sometimes believe.

I signed up for Twitter and IG years, but never - NEVER - use them.  Pretty sure I can count on one hand the number of posts I've made at each there, and never proactively go there to find "information" or whatever.  FB is the same for me.  It's a way that I can keep in touch (actively and/or passively) with people who I don't often talk with or (pre COVID) see.