made to be broken

One of my New Year's Resolutions should be to post more often, although I'm sure that if it does get added to the list, it will subsequently be the first to get broken. So off the list it stays. Meanwhile, here's the overly-ambitious 2005 list. (Afterall, don't motivational speakers always tell you to aim high and stuff?!?)

1. Update the portfolio and give it a makeover. I'm sick of how it looks.

2. Create actual web content for the online portfolio site. This means dusting off my years old (probablly bootleg) version of Dreamweaver and figuring out style sheets and stuff. Or maybe I'll just cheat my way through it and stay teh hell away from coding and stuff like that because it scares me.

3. Buy a new laptop and matching toys. I haven't consciously been saving up, but I know there's enough in the bank account to treat myself. I deserve it, dammit! And this PC is really starting to annoy the hell outta me.

4. Move. Out. Away. Whatever. I promised myself I'd be out of the house by time I turned 25. Looks like that didn't happen. I'm extending the deadline to my 26th birthday. If I don't move to a different city like I hope to do, I will resign myself to staying in Vancouver and buy a condo or apartment to nest in.

5. Watch at least one new movie a month. At the theatre. My newly purchased stash of discount movie tickets should ensure that I follow through on this culturally enriching resolution, tailored to broaden my horizons. Provided, of course, that I don't go catch retarded (albeit cult hit) flicks like "Dude, Where's my Car?"

6. Since I should probably have a fitness resolution, and I'm too lazy to add 'join a gym' to the list, I'm gonna start running again (after the cold disappears). And the goal is to beat my the 10 km Sun Run finish time that I set last year.

7. Stop spending money on clothes. I think there are articles in the closet with tags still on them, and yet, like a crazy shoppaholic clothes whore, I keep buying more. Enough! (Exceptions may be made on fabulous shoe purchases. But only if they are indeed fabulous. Or extremely comfortable.)

8. Pack lunches (and breakfasts). And eat at MickeyD's and Wendy's less. So far, I've been holding steady to this resolution, but we're only nine days into the year. This is most likely the first one I'll break. I'd place bets on it now.

9. Read a new book every month. And finish them.

10. Ten resolutions?!? Holy crap! I should know that too many resolutions are a recipe for failure! But whatever. Ten is a nice, round number. So be it. Hmmm...how about this? Write at least one postcard a month.

There you have it. The 2005 Made-to-be-Broken List!