Herein we will post what we hope to accomplish in 2006, and hopefully give some support

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I want to quit smoking. Before I quit completely, but then getting a job at a restaurant, I started again. It was mostly a social thing, going outside to socialize and smoke with everyone. That turned into smoking when I'm drinking. And that pretty much turned into being a full on smoker. So, I want to stop that.

2005 was the year of my breaking up with my fiance and a lot of other tragic shit that resulted in a pretty terrible year. Hopefully 2006 will be the year I get another girlfriend, or at least date more. My love life was pretty stagnant this past year. I did a fine job of asking out some hot girl from Belarus the other night, and even though nothing came of it, it was a step up from being too shy to not bother.

So, what do you want to change this year?

― Mickey (modestmickey), Sunday, 1 January 2006 16:00 (eighteen years ago) link

52x5=260

Two hundred and sixty cartoon blog entries.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 1 January 2006 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link

I want to get back to my swimming routine which I had to end due to a shoulder injury which is now fixed, hurrah.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Sunday, 1 January 2006 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm hoping to lose ten-fifteen lb. by the end of the year. If my health allows me to be as active as I'd like to be, that should be pretty doable. If not, I might still be able to get there by eating more carefully.

I'd love to get into a different line of work, but I have no escape plan, and can't seem to come up with one.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 1 January 2006 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Two hundred and sixty cartoon blog entries.

will you share these?

2006: house, start master's, baby. nothing too big.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Sunday, 1 January 2006 19:58 (eighteen years ago) link

What's the Master's in? Good luck.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Sunday, 1 January 2006 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link

also start master's!

― it was jody that killed the beast (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 1 January 2006 20:07 (eighteen years ago) link

fix my life, find new gf (?), stop drinking and smoking so much, start exercising either to lose wt or to put on muscle, find a new job, do better in school, finish album

i'm very skeptical of my ability to accomplish even one or two of those

― nervous (cochere), Sunday, 1 January 2006 20:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, I have some ideas...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 1 January 2006 20:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Also I have to move to another apartment. The thin walls in this place are just freaking me out too much now. I really don't look forward to either apartment hunting or moving, or the ienvitable final realization that I have moved into yet another hell-hole, no matter how ostensibly posh.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 1 January 2006 20:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Date someone who actually likes me.

― Mitya (mitya), Sunday, 1 January 2006 23:47 (eighteen years ago) link

school

― calderdale in the 70s (gareth), Sunday, 1 January 2006 23:47 (eighteen years ago) link

I would like to give up booze and crack. And write a book. And have sex.

― I Am Sexless and I Am Foul (noodle vague), Monday, 2 January 2006 00:23 (eighteen years ago) link

"Two hundred and sixty cartoon blog entries.

will you share these?

2006: house, start master's, baby. nothing too big.

-- Miss Misery xox (missmisery7...), Yesterday 7:58 PM. (later) (link)"

http://www.oilyrags.blogspot.com & http://www.livejournal.com/users/oilyrags

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 2 January 2006 01:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Thanks. :)

What's the Master's in? Good luck.

I'm not sure yet. I had been thinking IT but am now thinking that may not be the best path for me. I think I'm going to take some programming courses at the community college for the hell of it, see how it takes.

Most likely I'll go for a masters in social work with an aim towards counseling/therapy. That's what I've planned for years but had put it out of mind after my bad turn with teaching. I suspect that it would make me happier in the long-run than computer programming would.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 2 January 2006 02:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Write a novel, make money, not let money make me, get a flat, own more idiots/avoid pathetic, insecure, self-absorbed losers at dodgy house parties, produce more artwork, get the driving licence, rejoin a gym, stick with those who matter, visit Tokyo, Stockholm and/or NYC, and spend valuable time with the new fancy.

― Hal! Jordan! HAL! JORDAN! (Barima), Monday, 2 January 2006 02:57 (eighteen years ago) link

my master's is in urban planning (or "city & regional planning," as a lot of schools are calling it now). the last two applications are going out tomorrow.

― it was jody that killed the beast (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 2 January 2006 03:08 (eighteen years ago) link

1. Sell a lot of copies of my book
2. Sell lots of banner ads for lube, poppers, and buttplugs.
3. Go on a date.
4. Cut down on drugs.

Those are my four goals for 2006.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 2 January 2006 03:52 (eighteen years ago) link

No smoking. Less drinking. Girlfriend. Regular exercise regimen. Better financial planning. School. QUIT JOB.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 2 January 2006 03:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd like to start playing guitar again. I'd slowly gotten away from it last summer to the point where I haven't picked one up in a couple of months. I thought maybe a change was in order so I sold my old reliable and bought a new Taylor that just sits waiting for me to breathe a little life into it. I really miss those daily sessions that gave me much more confidence in myself to do a whole lot more than just play an instrument.

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 2 January 2006 04:04 (eighteen years ago) link

What's your book, Phil??

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 2 January 2006 04:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, I wrote this sort of trashy book about when I lived in that model dorm. An imprint of Simn & Schuster bought it a couple weeks ago, so I guess it'll come out winter of 2006.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 2 January 2006 04:15 (eighteen years ago) link

trashy in a good way, of course.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 2 January 2006 04:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm in!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 2 January 2006 04:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Do well in my new job
Start dating again
Read more
Spend less time on the Web
Find a better place to live / spend more on household goods
Holiday by the end of the year

― Mil (Mil), Monday, 2 January 2006 07:46 (eighteen years ago) link

New job. New kitchen. Going to the gym more. Going to the pub less.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 2 January 2006 07:52 (eighteen years ago) link

write a bad novel and become obnoxiously rich.

― olenska (olenska), Monday, 2 January 2006 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link

I want to feel better, first and foremost, though I don't really know how. I also want to get some idea of what I'm going to do as a career.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 2 January 2006 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link

be more positive
do things (instead of sitting around at home)
keep in touch with old friends/make new ones

― jellybean (jellybean), Monday, 2 January 2006 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link

i would like to drink less. i do not intend to go out to the pub less, but i hope to just enjoy a few civilised beers when i do. new years day was one of the worst of my life due to drunken stupidity.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 2 January 2006 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I am impressed, by news of Philip's book.

I want to read Mary McCarthy's The Group at last.

How long have I wanted to read it, you ask?

― the bellefox, Monday, 2 January 2006 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link

The Group

― the pinefox, Monday, 2 January 2006 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Stay with girlfriend (3 months so far)
Make inroads into my overdraft
Make progress with the music writing - did my first ever interview (of Andrew from Broken Social Scene) the other week.
Buy lots of CDs (possible conflict of interests with #2 there...)
Move out of parents' place - this should happen v soon.

― Cracks (Crackity), Monday, 2 January 2006 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link

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