HAPPY NEW YEAR

My friend tony asked me what my resolutions would be for this year. it never occurred to me until that instant.

i told him at the time,
1. drink less
2. spend less
3. temper less

he laughed in my face.

one whole day into the year, and i suppose my resolutions are all the same obvious picks other people make.

maybe,
1. drink less
(coffee, that is. my alcohol intake is ok at the mo - double shots coffees several times a day must be unhealthy regardless of what my dull brain thinks)
2. spend less
(on shoes and bags, blah blah blah) i will be revising this, perhaps something like one big solid purchase for the whole year... at least i have a vague idea to start with, as if resolutions should be so concrete anyway, that is how they are broken within the week.
3. temper less
i think this is in progress. B did say one day that i have been behaving far better around full moon time... i am inclined to agree with him. altho i do get irritable when i am bored and have run out of things to do... i will try my best but at some point, i do get tired of trying to entertain myself and i just need someone else to prance around and help me along with the remaining 23hours of the day. usually, i get moody when i'm bored because before i was bored, i was hungry... it really boils down to neglect.
4. this year my wardrobe will be categorised and up to date...comprehensively
despite trips to ikea last year umpteen times with 3 different types of storage solution, my wardrobe remains in semi-chaos, within each storage system. at the moment, the only person who understands the system is myself.. the average person who walks into my room has no idea where to aim for if searching for a plain singlet. my mother knows this and heads straight to the washing line where she picks her victims (MY NEW WORK CLOTHES) straight off the line and squirrels them in her closet for all eternity. so even disarray does not work in throwing mummy dearest off the track i may as well just fix the plumbing, so to speak.
5. actually pay off the credit card.
6. study harder for that degree.
i honestly cannot handle the stress attacks knowing fully well i did not study hard enough at the beginning of the term.
7. work harder at that job.

i really don't want to put more than 7 up (7up!! haha) i think it is enough to look respectable. needless to say, if anyone asks i will completely forget what any of them are. in which case, i will turn around and decry the practise for being absolutely ridiculous and patronising anyway on the grounds that it implies people require the date to be 31 dec of any year to put into words any sort of aim that they should have acquired ages ago to begin with but have given up midway through the year and left it until the end of it and the beginning of the next to start all over again. at the end of this tirade which will sound absolutely inspired and unrehearsed, people will nod vehemently in agreement and declare that it is a shame more people don't think like this etcetera etcetera etc...