DonovanDuVal

Now I don’t want to be overly optimistic here, but please people try to think big. Most people blow their new years resolution within the first couple of months anyway, so you may as well fail at something where people can say “well, they bit off more than they could chew trying that.”

None of this ‘I’m going to lose weight,’ or ‘I’m going to stop smoking/ drinking/ being lazy.’ If you really wanted those things you should just do them, not be procrastinating the last few weeks of the year away not even with a hollow promise, but with the promise, of a hollow promise.

Come on people make it big and extreme. Something that even if you fail trying will still be something that you can tell your grandkids about. The kind of thing that has us all reading and going ‘Oooooo’ at the wonder of it all.

Ok here is mine to start the ball rolling:-

This year my new year’s resolution is to start my own cult.

What do you reckon? Do want a piece of this action?

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"I've been Donovan DuVal. Take care of yourselves, and each other."

taboo

hehehe yeahhh
hmmm i'd like to strive for something big...
I'd like to try and live in Europe starting in the spring..
let's see if I'll actually do it this time.

Sultana

My resolutions are the same as always: To watch more TV and to drink more.

I'm really gonna try this time!

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"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath.
At night, the ice weasels come." -

Matt Groening

My goal? To fulfill my potential.

theguyondacouch

You're my hero!
I really dont't have any resolutions. Not to fuck up too bad I guess.

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"Lick my frozen metal ass!"

frogza

Make enough as freelance illustrator to quit my job

joemc91

I have a few of them:
Travel internationally at least once a month (provided I'm not in training)
Improve my guitar playing
Actually be able to pick girls up (ok, I'm holding my breath there)
Get in better shape
Pick up an artistic hobby

Yeah, it's a lot, but I'm practically unemployed!

cellophanedeity

To actually pass my courses.

haha, a bigger goal than I would have thought.

Siege

Get laid.

Or get fit and do well in school for a change.

Either way would be nice

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--Kevin Smith

This part just makes my posts easier to find

redsfan11

Same as last year -- get in shape.

maleficent

Be a hermit
Whine more
Complain more
Drink more coffee
Become more cynical, jaded and bitter
Roll my eyes so often, as a scientific experiment, to see if they really will get stuck in the back of my head.
Plan world domination
Find someone who will tolerate me for more than 10 minutes at a stretch.

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ngdawg

I never make New Year's resolutions-I don't like to make promises I can't keep. But if I was to make any it would be:
Quit smoking
Find a 'normal' job

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Don't blame me. I didn't vote for either of'em.

Charlatan

I resolve to the be the best serial killer in the history of the world... ever.

Of course, this means you will never know of my success. To be the best means to not be caught and not discovered. You will just have to wonder if I am coming for you.

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"My hands are on fire. Hands are on fire. Ain't got no more time for all you charlatans and liars."
- Old Man Luedecke

yabobo

I've had enough. I'm going home. The year to die.....

Charlatan I'll p.m you my address....

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Only in America......do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.

guthmund

Well, if you ever need any pointers....

Something big, eh?

Very well. This year I will learn and master the art of time control.

Of course, I have no idea how to start....maybe I should buy a watch?

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ShaniFaye

To own the oldest biggest still habital castle in scotland and keep a harem of kilted men (who arent that kind of "gay" good looking like thats always posted in the full monty forum) in my fully furnished dungeon

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I want the diabetic plan that comes with rollover carbs. I dont like the unused one expiring at midnite!!

Glory's Sun

I only have one resolution.. to drink more.

Sultana

Hey! You are *so* copying me!

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"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath.
At night, the ice weasels come." -

Matt Groening

My goal? To fulfill my potential.

jwoody

I'm going to reclaim my ancestoral land from the sheep farmers and build affordable and environmentally sustainable/low impact housing for all.

Just you wait and see.

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ShaniFaye

jwoody, you can be in my harem if you do that in scotland

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I want the diabetic plan that comes with rollover carbs. I dont like the unused one expiring at midnite!!

Sultana

Reminds me of someone else...

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"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath.
At night, the ice weasels come." -

Matt Groening

My goal? To fulfill my potential.

jwoody

Northumberland first, then Scotland.

Then.... the WORLD!!!!!

Well, you know, the world can wait until 2007. I don't want to burn myself out.

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ShaniFaye

but jwoody!! just think....as part of a harem of kilted men, you'd have lots of help in reclaiming your ancestoral land!!!!

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I want the diabetic plan that comes with rollover carbs. I dont like the unused one expiring at midnite!!

jwoody

After the dust settles.... Scotland can be all yours.

We'll put an end to a thousand years of non-cooperation and move forward into a whole new era.

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la petite moi

Hmmm...my resolution is to transfer schools successfully (no hitches) and to travel.

DonovanDuVal

Some pretty hardcore resolutions going on there.

Harems and dungeons, serial killers, dying, reclaiming ancestral territory, moving to Europe, quit work and become a freelance illustrator, mastering time control, plan world domination while being a hermit.

I think you can all be pretty proud of yourselves with those.

Come on the rest, let's see what you are made of. See if you can top any of those.

Oh God, I'm becoming a thread cheerleader. - Not a resolution, I can assure you.

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"I've been Donovan DuVal. Take care of yourselves, and each other."

Gatorade Frost

I intend to make a 4.0 my spring semester, lose 50 pounds, and have sex at least 150 times in the next 365 days.

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Cynthetiq

To travel more than I did this year... I'm not sure that we'll be able to do the same total mileage (which I haven't figured out how to get but I'm sure I can figure it out,) and total destinations.

There's 194 countries and 437 cities with over 1 million people in them to go visit. While I don't think I can do the pokeman of getting them all, I'd like to see as many as I can. There's got to be a way I can do this as a lifestyle and not have to work at a day job. It would be great to do my job from where ever I am in the world via the internet connection. Maybe in my lifetime I'll be able to work that way too.

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Suave

I am going to make one hundred million dollars on the stock market within 6 months, and buy my own island in the south Pacific. I will then find a way to completely control the international market for watercress! Muhahahaha.

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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." - Albert Einstein

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." - Plato

Slippery Slope

I'm going to transform my garden into such a landscaping masterpiece that
it'll get on TV and be in all the gardening mags and members of the public
from all over the land will want tickets to come and view it.

That or quit smoking.

abaya

Major goals for 2006:
1) To understand myself better and know what I want. Basically to quit bullshitting myself.

2) To learn how to love ktspktsp better in the second year of our separation in a long-distance relationship.

3) To figure out whether I should continue in my PhD program.
--If I do continue, then to decide whether I can risk delaying my fieldwork for possibly two years for the sake of above relationship, and decide what to do with that time.
--If I don't continue, then to decide what the hell to do with the rest of my life.

Minor goals (that matter a lot for my daily sanity):
Keep going to weekly counseling, working out 3 times a week, tidying my apartment once a week, and cleaning my bathroom at least once a month. And to give meditation a serious try, in an attempt to avoid the severe bitterness that has enveloped my life lately.

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Elphaba

Quit smoking. It sounds small, but very important in my little niche in the world. Keeping the body count low in the attempt, is also a resolution.

Sweetpea

To be happier

that's it.



sweetpea

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Willravel

1) Take the first steps towards running for poltical office
2) Learn brail
3) Cut ties with apathetic friends and co-workers
4) Continue to give my daughter the gift of knowledge and virtue, to the best of my abilities
5) Oh s**t! Spoiler: Quentin is the carver!!!

Jove

I will attempt to study and learn how to speak German
Find an IT job somewhere in the world that will pay $15-$25/hr
Travel to numerous European countries in an 120 day backpacking adventure

Anneri

1... Make sure that the business really takes of and stop gettiing distracted online.
2... Travel to at least 2 new countries.
3... Completely uncover the so called " family secrets" that i'm currently trying to solve.
4...Learn to play a musical instrument.
5...Not get so drunk that i can't remember what i have done again!

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Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me the hell alone.

Poppinjay

I can only offer my part in this resolution, but with help, I resolve to have a child in the '06.

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I think the Apocalypse is happening all around us. We go on eating desserts and watching TV. I know I do. I wish we were more capable of sustained passion and sustained resistance. We should be screaming and what we do is gossip. -Lydia Millet

barenakedladies

new years resolution:

to win over $25,000 in poker tournaments.

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little_tippler

hmmmm...thinking big.

Buy my own house with a view of the sea and a big terrace
have my art studio in the same house that I live in
Earn enough through my art work to quit my current job
make at least 3 new good friends and go out more
be happy on my 26th birthday

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918

Eweser

To win the first big lottery in Oklahoma, then quit my job and raise my sheep. Might do some coding on the side for fun. Send my brother back to college and put enough away to send my sister to college wherever she wants to go....oh yeah, pay my pickup off and build a house. The rest I'll make up as I go along.

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snowy

1) Save enough money to pay off a bill that's been hanging over my head for some time
2) Save enough money to go to Rochester (No. 1 has to happen first, but I'm trying to ferret away small amounts of cash for the trip). As it's around birthday time I expect to get some "birthday help" from parents/boyfriend, but we'll see.
3) Continue to improve my culinary skills by cooking more often and more adventurously, and also to work on my baking
4) To write the cookbook I want to--the subject would be how to change recipes for carnivores into recipes for vegetarians that carnivores want to eat too (this is a subject near and dear to my heart, as my SO is a vegetarian and I am not, and as most traditionally vegetarian recipes try and sneak in all these things you would not want to eat I tend towards modifying existing non-vegetarian recipes).

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