New Year's Resolution

[alarimer]

Ok, I know Christmas is barely over yet but I am thinking about the new year. For some reason the thought of another year over is making me depressed. I have been down a lot lately, what with one thing and another. But I have decided on a few things:

1) Exercise more. I already do workout and I think it has helped me a great deal but I am determined both to eat better and to work out more. Say, 5 days a week at least. Well I plan on eating every day but working out 5 days a week.

2) Finish my Masters degree. I am on year 6 already. They only give you 7. Time to fish or cut bait as they say.

3) Resume job search. Find gainful, meaningful employment in my field. (I do currently have a job, albeit a crappy one with no advancement potential). It will mean leaving the city I have been living in for 9 years but that is because in order to find a better job in my field I will almost certainly have to leave. There are no jobs here for me. Not unless somebody dies. Or I bump them off. :evilgrin:

4) Find a meaningful relationship or at least search and have a good time in the meantime. I am not quite sure with how this meshes with goal number 3 above and having to move almost certainly. So I am torn as to how important this should be. On the one hand, I am so tired of being alone when the whole world seems to be in love. On the other, I absolutely do not want to be tied down in this city and having to pass up great oppotunities in other places. So a bit of a dilemma. I am always honest about my plans and what I want. Almost blunt in fact: "There is no way in hell I will ever move to Brownsville or Harlingen (pick any city in the Rio Grande Valley and I will NEVER move there". This in a email to someone who otherwise seemed very nice- he just lived in a crappy place- crappier even than where I live now.

Oh, and I want world peace. Is it too much to ask?

[SPKrazy]

1. Good Luck!

I hate to make resolutions

I've been hitting the gym at least 5 days a week for a couple of months (with the exception of the last 5 days)

What's your master's in?

My goal is to at least apply for a PhD program in Public Policy

Whether I actually do it will depend on a lot of factors.

Meaningful relationships, well what's that?

Meh, I'm thinking it's time for some shallow superficial relationships! ROFL

:pals: :rofl:

[alarimer]

5. marine science

Very part-time.

well any sort of relationship will do at this point I think.

[SPKrazy]

8. Good Luck!

Marine Science sort of does require an ocean or a marine setting.

I know a woman who has a marine science degree who runs an aquarium service.

Of course, that is in landlocked Arkansas.

Good Luck with your resolutions!


Hope you find a relationship that is what you want

:hi:

[alarimer]

9. Thanks

Ask me again in February!

[SPKrazy]

10. If I Can Remember That Long! ROFL

take care

:pals:

[Wapsie B]

2. No, it all sounds good to me.

Harlingen huh? I've got relatives who are snowbirds wintering there. I'm with you on #1 & #3. I don't see the value of a Master's degree for me.

[graywarrior]

3. Get a LIFE!

That's my res.

[hfojvt]

4. Well, at least

Congrats on 4,000 posts.

That all sounds doable, except for the world peace. Perhaps tougher penalties for parole violators would be a more realistic goal (nb. movie joke).

Possibly - MA, job, and relationship would be the best order. What more is left for your MA? What do you consider a crappy job?

[alarimer]

6. I passed 4000 without realizing it

I think I didn't post much for a few years. And I still don't all that much.

All that is left is for me to finish my thesis. A crappy job is for me just one that does not utilize my skills and has no possibility for moving up. Which is where I find myself now. I am smart and capable but my job is sort of limiting. I feel unappreciated and bored too. Really the boredom is the worst thing about it really.

[hfojvt]

11. against boredom, the gods themselves contend in vain

in my janitorial job at least the time passes quickly

I opted for a non-thesis option, although I think I could have done a thesis pretty handily. I had something like 60 pages of papers on about the same theme.

I think most employees feel unappreciated, but if I have good pay and bennies, I do not worry about moving up. In fact, I recently moved down. Less pay, less stress and responsibility. More free time. Maybe I will do another research paper.

[BarenakedLady]

7. Mine

1. work more on myself. take my therapy more seriously.

2. be more "there" for my kids. I mean, I'm with them constantly, but my mind is usually elsewhere.

3. work on get myself independent (job, schooling, whatever it takes)

4. get divorced, if not at least separated by the end of 2007.

5. possibly move back to RI. There is a four bedroom house that is sitting empty (my Nana's) right next to my parents. *sigh*

[crim son]

12. Those are some big resolutions.

I was thinking, "Clean the bathtub once a week." :hug:

[BarenakedLady]

14. Hehehe

Sure you were. :hug:

[crim son]

15. You are not only sexy but very clever.

:P

[BarenakedLady]

17. Hmmmm clever and sexay!

No man shall ever be able to resist my feminine...uhm...wilds? Yeah, right. :evilgrin:

[crim son]

18. Well, me too. Clever and relentlessly sexy.

Yet sleeping alone. :rofl:

[SPKrazy]

13. How Do You Eat An Elephant?

one bite at a time

you can do it if you take it day by day.

Good luck!

:hug:

[BarenakedLady]

16. Ewww, dude, I'm a vegetarian...

:rofl:

We need another analogy.

:hug:

and thank you. :)

[SPKrazy]

19. I've Sworn Off Elephants Myself!

but not a vegetarian

okay

what's a huge veggie?

I'm drain bead, I mean brain dead

:crazy: :hug:

[Broken_Hero]

20. The usual for me

1. Get back into my exercise routine...my goal for right now, is to just keep my nose to the grind

2. Get back on the no-smoking wagon, I fell off right after Thanksgiving...

3. Read more often

4. Don't go online so much.

[alarimer]

22. I think #4 would be impossible for me

But it might be related to the things on my list.

[LaraMN]

21. Become double-jointed.

I fuck that one up EVERY year.
2007's gonna be different. I can feel it...
:D