A quick glance at previous posts shows that when the arbitrary
date we set for the New Year comes crawling around, I look back on a crappy
previous year in hopes of a better future.
But you know what, 2017 was fine.
Not in a grander worldly kind of way of course, there it was perfectly
crappy, but on a personal level, 2017 was harmless. Good, even, I guess.
I ate a lot of different vegan chocolate tarts from
different vegan cafés and friendly restaurants, I saw Mischief Theatre perform
live twice and I saw my favourite stage performer/singer Philip Quast live for
the second time in my life in his last musical. I won two arguments that I didn’t start about
why being vegan is important. I saw a
Thor film that I actually liked and I’m still in shock about that. I taught myself the basics of chess and took
up geocaching as a hobby. I watched all eight
seasons of That '70s Show in a couple of weeks because I love it now. I came out as Ace, by which I mean I wrote it
in a tiny corner of my Facebook profile.
I fell in love with Oxford. The
ghastly neighbours in the flat below, while moving in in 2017, almost moved out
in 2017. Season 4 of Bojack Horseman had
a slightly more uplifting ending than season 3.
I popped to London for one afternoon and managed to meet up with seven different
friends and another time I met up with a friend I haven’t seen in like seven
years and we had a lot of fun. I wrote
an entire novel-length story from scratch in the course of a month (I might be
fudging that a bit). I bought a vacuum
cleaner that actually works (who knew). I
reread Jane Eyre and it turns out it’s still the greatest book ever
written. And one time a cat broke into
my flat for cuddles.
Yeah, 2017, not too shabby.
But 2018 can do better.
I don’t hold much stick* with new year resolutions, because I
think life is a continual journey of self-improvement and also I’m super lazy. Usually I just say my resolution is ‘to do
better’. But considering what a procrastinator
I am, I think maybe some direction might help.
So here are my Top 5 New Year Resolutions for 2018. Tune in next year to see how I did.
1. Send
stuff off to get published like all the time, instead of not doing that.
2. Spend
more time with my friends; visit the local ones, penpal the distant ones.
3. Get
fit; possibly not by joining the gym because it is £40 a month which is INSANE,
but if not then replace the broken wii and use the wii fit daily and on nice
days use the outdoor gym that is NEXT TO YOUR FLAT.
4. Use
the, how many is it now? Got be 20 at least, cookbooks you own to make new and
interesting and healthy meals instead of eating the same two frozen dinners
every night until you come to regard dinner with dread and loathing.
5. Read
more books. Don’t stop reading for
months at a time just because Frankenstein was boring.
I nearly had ‘tidy
up after myself’ in the list, but, you know, who am I kidding.
So that’s 2018
off to a start, but it’s also Monday, so you know what that means.
Performed by Topher Grace and Laura Prepon, written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus
So what are your 2018 resolutions?
*not a typo. I think I might have made up a phrase.
*not a typo. I think I might have made up a phrase.
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