blog post Today on Lanarama: It’s Resolution Time!

My resolution be more awesome. I think I am on track.

Have never made or kept a resolution, but I did become a Vegetarian out of spite. Does that count?! ;)

I have resolved never to make a new year's resolution again

I joked that one year and haven't made one since!If I was going to try and resolve something this year, it would be up my creative output!

not a New Years specific resolution, but if been undergoing some personal 'mental health growth' (ie. getting my depressed ass back into this thing called life) and have several goals to go with that. First one is to write something for my blog at least once a day. I've been at around the every other day mark since I started it, so i'm looking to bump that up.

Next is to live within a budget. I've had terrible money sense my whole life and I'm sick and tired of it (which is weird, as my parents are some of the most frugal people I know). Mr. Muc introduced us to the wonderful web tool wesabe last year. I'm going to use it this year. (hope i didn't inadvertently set off any waterworks Lana :( )

A minor goal but one that I really, really am eager to complete is to do the Grouse Grind when it opens up...I've lived in Van for 11 months now and I haven't done it....that's some shameful poop right there that is..

Plenty of other stuff on the list, but thats a good start

the only resolution i ever kept was to not make new years resolutions. it's been about 10 years and counting. i believe change should come when it's needed, not because we start a new calendar.

that said, i have decided that i need to make some changes in my life.

i want to stay on top of new music, instead of realizing how awesome something is months after everyone else. i want to ski & snowshoe more. not hermit in my home like i did all of december. learn about wine. get my website back up and running. see through to the end a project i just started with a couple of friends, (suckamc from here is in on it, too!). get a job that uses my brain, and not the fact that i am just another body to fill a job. visit the west coast for the first time. travel on a train for the first time.

it's a big year, which i suspect will spill into 2011. i'm ok with that.

I'm with you on the mental health growth and the budgeting.  Any idea if Wesabe works with Canadian banks?  And how does the website make money?

I did start tracking my spending again in December, though it's not really a new year's resolution.  I'm not using a web service though.  I don't trust it that much, I figure tracking it myself encourages me to pay attention to my spending more, and I want to track cash spending too.  I'm using a free Mac application.

Maybe find a way to make money from stuff you currently do for free?  Like selling pictures to boders.

Or, you know, other people.

It does work with Canadian banks (TD Canada Trust anyways..I see RBC in the lists too, so I imagine the big 5 are in there). I haven't started using it yet, just setting up today in fact, but I imagine they make money by selling targeted advertising...

hey it's that song "if our love is butter fire..." :-)

If only it were so easy to simply "resolve" to remain resolute at doing or not doing something.   HA.  I resolve to make a resolution for each day.  Maybe I'll become a more persistant person.

If you put off doing something till after New Year's simple you don't want to do it, you aren't seriously committed to the idea yet. It's great to have self-improvment in mind but I think you need that day that just comes where you just start doing it. I've been needing to drop some weight for a while but couldn't get myself motivated to do anything about it much apart from walking to work semi-frequently. Although I gotta get back to walking to work instead of just from I've also started going to the free gym at work twice a week for some extra cardio. That started in Nov I think and I even did a little exercise on new year's eve day.

Any real lasting changes I've made have just happened in the natural course, I can't force myself to do something until I'm ready to do it and I've just accepted that.

if you need to make it to 10 inches, and it took 12 months to get 7 then another 5.14 months should get you the extra 3 you need...that is if it is 10 from your ears...you've got that sweet curly hair, so i imagine it's harder to manage the longer you grow it, but you can do it!

I resolve to graduate from university.  C'monnnn degree!

Be it resolved that the idea put forth by dear krib shall be taken to heart and the book "Your money or your life" shall be sought out

@boders haha whichever one you want :)

@mynameismoe i will def. try. my curls get weighed down soooo much when its long, which equals more product to try and keep it fro-like, which equals having to wash it a LOT because there's product in it. Really I just need it to be warm enough to go in the ocean, because despite my attempts to put salt water in my hair at home, nothing makes it as perfect as the ocean. ...also. i think about this everyday, as my mom has alopecia, and I cannot imagine ever losing this mop i call my hair. :(

@Absotively thats what my mom says everytime I tell her I'm off to shoot a show. im hoping to get exclaim to pay attention to my emails soon. I've found most music blogs/websites/magazines are non-profit. I don't mind as much with the band shots, because they're my friends and I rarely pay cover. Plus it feels weird to NOT take photos at shows...no camera = naked.

that's a pretty good resolution..are you in your last semester now?

@TheRadioHead - "We live a charmed and priviledged life in this country, and I resolve to never take it for granted!" damn straight. most of us anyways.

I've resolved to start giving back where I can too. I'm starting by volunteering some time with PIVOT Legal Society. I can't wait to hear back from the volunteer coordinator.

@moe and martin - cool blog project. hope you keep it up. is your buddy ryan an r3'er too? he's out giving away the NOVELS album so he's an r3er in spirit even if he doesn't know it

I think I could make a real resolution that I could stick to. My resolution would be to be climbing a minimum of 5.11a by December of next year. I currently climb 5.10b with ease and 5.10c are a push and I have a lot of trouble with 5.10d's so I think realistically if I focus on my technique this year I should be able to climb 5.11a's with ease. (the 5.10a and such are route difficulty ratings for those who have never climbed)

@christine ah, yes, i have curly hair too and feel that pain! before you know it, though, you'll have the required 10 inches. :)

@boders i tried to do a 365 day project twice already. hopefully this time, having 2 other people in on it, i'll see the end of it! :) also, ryan is an r.3 listener! apparently i turned him onto r.3 :) i've never seen him post on the blog, though.

i am stealing his novels idea for tomorrow (hopefully), and am going to try to talk martin into it, too. i think it would be fitting since we all listen to radio 3.

so am I the only one that likes my curly hair? I'm in the process of growing mine back out though.  Mine isn't as curly as both of your hair is so maybe that is why I like mine.

I finally finished my degree in December so I've been thinking about what I will do with all this free time (I've been working full time and taking night classes 4 days a week). I think I need to return to the gym. I've also decided that I am going to clean out my spare bedroom and turn it into an office/craft room, and I'm going to learn to sew. These decisions are really just to keep me occupied now that I have spare time, but I guess they could be considered resolutions.

naw i'm down with my locks. i've long since accepted that my hair is what it is.

My resolutions:

1. Improve my health (physical, emotional, spiritual)

2. Finish my freaking thesis.

Listening to R3 is good for #1, but not so good for #2...

I think I've resolved to do all those things that I put off...for no reason. The painting is mostly because I was waiting for my landlord to give me the paint, but he's soooo slow.

Next on todays list is to take my PC, which broke in May of 2008 when I shipped it from Ontario, and got the blue screen of death. To see if it can be repaired, and then maybe sold? I also need sidetables. No more lamps and tea and books on the floor for me.

bidding adieu for an hour or so...

good. I'm always telling ladies to leave theri hair curly..at least more often than they tend too...my sister was nuts with that, but she has great curls..i'm sure she got tired of hearing all the time how "people pay for perms ya know" in a nagging mom voice

re: Craig's show

Lisa filled in for Grant, so I assume we'll rebroadcast Craig's show and re-post the blog after Lanarama

oh man, that "people pay good money for perms" line is rather annoying. it goes both ways. people pay good money to straighten their hair!

the grass is always greener on the other side... i enjoyed my curls (pre-dread) and every now and then went to the straight hair side. it was fun, but glad it was temporary.

it's much easier to hide bad hair days with curly hair... :P

yep, intriguing is better...how do we know that the rebroadcast isn't actually an NSA agent trying to provoke us into giving away our secret canadian secrets?

My trip home was pretty good, went skiing for the first time in like 2 years which was great. Came back real quick too but I think it's one of those "never forget" things as I started skiing when I was 4 or 5.

Glad you enjoyed the bourbon nog, I like more than the rum and it's not like I dislike rum or anything. My Dad even bought Woodford Reserve which almost feels a waste to put into eggnog but it was soooo good. Mulled wine went over well at home too. How was your break? Good times?

Thansk for noticing by the way, I probably put any weight I've lost back on over Christmas but weight loss isn't my foremost goal. I more want to be in better shape so I have more energy in general to get more stuff done. Hopefully the weight just naturally goes down along the way.

Yup, ended up finally going for that Yamaha P85S. It's pretty awesome playing on weighted keys as well as having 88 of them, sounds nicer than the old keyboard too. I was thinking the same thing about shows, feels like it's be ages. I don't have anything this week but I suppose there's going to be tons of shows up and around the Olympics.

X-country skiing eh? I've only done that twice I think, seemed like a lot of work. I much prefer downhill, fast paced and exciting! I hear the skating rink downtown on Robson is free if you have skates and they're only $3 to rent. Maybe it's all crazy busy but there's another rink over on Denman if you're looking to get more skating in.

@Goal setting - if I were to set a short-term goal it'd be to get to a yoga class on weekends. I miss yoga terribly.

Real mountains are the way to go, it's a good time. I've only tried snowboarding once and I think I winded myself 3 times that day from falling down. Sucks that I gotta find new ski boots before I can ski down here (I borrowed my Dad's in Nelson).

i hope to moisturize a lot more in the new year