New Year's Resolutions ...

*anoints self with oil*

eats

apologises for last post. I'm not feeling myself.

Who are you feeling stormy?

Mine is to die....I thank you....upload my first piece is another one I want to do. I keep hacking at it...thought you'd inspire me but my muse has let me down

write more than i did this year, and concentrate on one piece at a time stop being horrible to my best mate's boyfriend, this will be nigh on impossible, coz we hate each other start writing poetry again, as i find it incredibly theraputic and stress-relieving. learn to drive (no way i'll stick to that, but hey, i can say i tried) i'll leave at that, since i know my willpower to be non-existent.

also to obey a banner i just saw, and get some of what i fancy

I resolve to get RSI in my tongue from cunnilingus. And since I stopped smoking years ago and don't drink [doesn't mix well with riding a motorcycle], I've been thinking about heroin, since it seems to do away with all this excess body fat and is cheaper per gramme than the average WeightWatcher SlimLine Chocolate bar.

take up begging - apparently you can make up £24 a day doing it, and if you're a begger, you're more likely to be approached by drug dealers. probably won't help with the RSI though

get rid of the telly!...p'raps a little extreme throw the budgie's cover over it maybe? finish at least one of the many pieces of writing I've begun pluck up the courage to submit to ABC give up the ghost working (for pay that is) only 9 to 5 not a minute longer making time to create and write being charitable to those people not as fortunate as me...... a peaceful and inspirational New Year to you all

I wrote something on new year's resolutions and I think u might just like going thru it :) It's titled I Resolve (?) and yeah...wish you a very happy new year :)

ok ... have decided on my writing resolution ... i realise that i keep writing the same poem over and over again ... am stuck in a poetic groove ... bleeh blah ... so i resolve to write some different poems ... i have been trying ... i tried to write a poem about my daughter riding her bike and it turned into "for this i don't forgive you" ... daughter and bike edited out completely ... does anyone have any suggested cures for being a one track poet?... i think the poetry gauntlet might be good for this state ...

no..its a real problem for me. i think this is where the writing poetry for self realisation (sorry abt that wankspeak) comes into it.... I do just the same thing.

what to do banana? ... what to DO????

I dont know Fishy...perhaps...we need some NEW life experiences...shall we go bungee jumping and write a few sonnets on bouncing?

ah yes ... perhaps that is the answer ... i think sonnets on bouncing would be very popular ... shall we go outside and run around naked in the snow for starters? ... we could write a villanelle on frostbite ...

I stopped smoking thirty years ago, but I think I'm going to take both it and drinking heavily up again. I'm also going to foreswear healthy food, fish included, put on weight (though this is barely feasible) and give up writing altogether. On top of this, I'm going to be much, much meaner to everyone and when the election comes around vote Conservative (if there are any left, that is - or should that be right?).

i think i might possibly resolve to be more decisive ... am not entirely sure yet ... will think about it ...

Tomorrow is always a good day for decisions.

Gonna spend less time staring at this screen. Get back into woodwork again. Stop smoking and drinking. I found when I was doing some woodturning the other night, it stopped me smoking and drinking and made me feel good. I hadn't picked up my tools for months, but as soon as I did, I felt my will getting strong again. It felt really good shaping the wood, really wholesome and theuraputic. I started feeling positive and felt my energy coming back. I have this feeling that staring at computer screens for too long is bad for you. There's something about them, that if you do it for too long, it steals something from you. I will probably only go on the internet for two hours a day max - in thirty minute intervals. Will spend an hour of that time reading peoples work on abctales. Maybe its just me, but for the past few days, being away from the computer has done me the world of good. Am starting to feel a bit like Frodo and the ring: with the internet. It seems to suck me into it's world then I find it really hard to get away from it, like it's a real effort of will to switch the damn thing off and do something else. I start smoking too much and drinking too much, and when I finally switch the computer off I feel like I've been drained of something valuable. I have come to realise excessive computer use doesn't do me any good. These past few days have given me some valuable insights about my life. Gonna try and write more using pen and paper from now on - and only use the word processer for typing up and hacking and polishing drafts. Anyway that's my new years resolutions. Don't know if I'll stick to them but I'am gonna try.

Write more, eat more chicken, win the lottery, be nicer to elephants. I agree about too much computer-use being bad too, but I dont think I have the willpower to give that up!

Funky, that's true, yes, it IS just like the ring! There is nothing for your SENSES is there? I'll try to leave it too, do some pictures instead

er... write more. In 2001 I mapped out a number of things I wanted to write but then allowed myself to get too busy to do them. Resolution two: read more, because it is the greatest known method of improving everything about oneself. Talking about reading and funky's reference above to Frodo whom I must assume to be one of Tolkein's creations, Tony (Pip Pip) Cook told me today that he read all three books in 36 hours. I was flabbergasted. And he was at school doing lessons at the time. Says a lot about him, all of it good. Do you know in my day we eschewed the company of and rusticated from respectable society anybody who discussed at great length the Hobbit stuff (which was most of those who had read it). Otherwise, I resolve to eat, drink and sleep as learned over previous years.

i saw a sign in the co-op today saying Eat More Oily Fish, so i think i'll do that. also going to read Midnight's Children, and perhaps write better things than i wrote this year

I love oiled fish robert. will consider eating too. here are my revolutions: I am going to endeavour to go to bed earlier. this will be difficult. I detest mornings and can happily stay up (not in the biblical sense mind you nowadays) all night. To fully support my kids in what they want to do rather than in what I would like them to do. I have realised that James does not want to be a footballer and Helen does not want to be a Wimbledon champion. Is there such a thing as world champion electronic games player or best ever messy bedroom? To spend more time writing than in the forum. stop laughing now! To receive a rejection letter. this will entail sending something off. scary. To not tell the wife I am having a heart attack every time I get indigestion nor insist upon a brain scan whenever the sinuses play up and I get headaches.

...dammit...started smoking again already....didn't help by going to see the film "the man who wasn't there" with Billy Bob Thornton, yesterday....more smoking in that film than anyone I have seen before...

I was at the trraffic lights this afternoon and a green sign said "Cross Now". I resolve to be cross throughout 2002.