So I hope everyone had a lovely New Years. I spent mine curled up with the stomach flu, watching my friends and my little brother get wasted. Not how I would have wished it, but better than nothing I guess. They are rather entertaining, though, so say the least. LOL. To keep with the tradition, though… first post of the New Year will be my list of resolutions. I’m feeling good that I’ll be able to stick with them this year… this year isn’t going to have that huge cloud of negative high schoolesque drama that seemed to follow me around in 2009.

01 Keep a job. Not that losing my job last year was my fault, but if I should lose my job, I will do everything in my power to secure a new one right away instead of wasting six months in the unemployment line.

02 Manage my finances better. I really need to do my best to get and keep a $0.00 balance on all of my accounts each month. I need to get ahead, not behind.

03 Keep up with my house cleaning and don’t let the house fall into disarray. I also need to get my boyfriend and my room mate’s cleaning up when I’m not home, because it’s unacceptable that I’ve let their laziness go on for this long.

04 Enroll in a gym/fitness program, actually stick with it and make a good dent into my weight loss goal of losing 100 lbs.

05 Complete my transition into the vegan lifestyle and make it work. My attempts in 2009 were… sad, at best. I’m hoping to build a good support system online, so that the fact that I have no support system for this decision offline won’t bring me down again.

06 Stop worrying so much what others think. I need to stop denying myself happiness in the pursuit of making everyone else happy. They don’t grant me the same courtesy.

07 Go on at least on vacation out-of-province. The end of October is the time for this that I have my eye on.

And… I think that’s it. I’ll probably add more to the list as I think of things. And to my affiliates and friends, I apologize for not commenting a lot recently… I’ve been stranded on the couch because of my nausea and vertigo, but I will try my best in the next couple of days to catch up with you all.

Oh! And as a final note for today’s entry… everyone needs to go out and purchase the CD “Night Is The New Day” by Katatonia. This CD is amazing, and it’s all I’ve been listening to for the last… week, I guess. LOL. Get it. You won’t be sorry.