New Year's Resolutions 2017

[RichardUK]

What are your new year's resolutions?

Last year mine were
[*]Get fit again - Fail
[*]Get out and about more - Fail
[*]Eat healthy - Fail
[*]Decide what to do with my relationship - Fail
[*]Learn as much as I can about issues that are happening across our country - Fail
[*]Take a German exam so I have a official qualification - Fail
[*]Find out if there are tour quide qualifications - Success, I did one
[*]Don't waste money for the sake of it on things I don't really want - Fail
[*]Be more open minded - Not Sure
[*]Sort out my religious issues that may mean I must do gods work - Fail

So I did 1 out of 10

[Rik]

- Be more organised with studying (ie don't leave the majority of the semester's reading until two weeks before exams start like this time round lol)
- Get back into tennis
- Get that damn book finished
- Find job, make dollar
- Get some teaching experience sorted ready for applying for placements next year
- Drink lots of trebs and have a good time

[Scapegoat]

New years resolutions:

take nihongo seriously and git gud at it.
take youtube seriously and produce more videos (actually currently working pretty well)
become a trap and follow in nick's footsteps.
get a full time job
fix my sleeping pattern (top kek never gonna happen lmao)

last year's resolutions:

learn to drive (achieved)
get a job (half achieved)
get swole and have mad gainz (lol no)
get good at [insert game here] (nope, still a scrublord)

[PiGreat]

- get employed
- fix sleeping pattern
- start taking bass playing seriously again
- get better with deadlines
- get better at cosplay stuff
- just generally become something resembling a functional human being, really

[Garf]

From last year, got my resolutions of 'pass degree and get professional job' so kudos to me

i resolve to be less of a dick this year i guess

and to not spill acid on my hand again

[Nofes]

Get into an MA course.
Keep going with the exercise/weight loss/swole mole routine.
Move out.
Quit my eton mess job.
Be more assertive.
Find a woman that loves me for me and not for my enormous penis.

[Rik]

Found last year's thread if anyone else wants to look back and celebrate/commiserate their successes/failures (and condemn everyone making the terrible overused joke)

- Try not to fail January exams
Bossed em
- Be more social at uni seeing as I still don't really know that many people outside of my halls/seminar groups
I am now a certified social butterfly
- Be more active, maybe even make some #gainz but I'd settle just for being slightly fitter
No gainz but biking to uni is keeping me active so at least there's that
- When summer rolls up, knuckle down and write some stuff
Ha that didn't happen
- Keep writing for the uni newspaper, maybe even apply for an editor position if there are any going at the end of the year
Applied and might have got the position if Facebook hadn't hidden the message from the editor in a spam folder RIP
- Relationship maybe?!?! lol nah that's not happening
lol nah didn't happen
- Try to enjoy life
Kind of? First half of the year was a bit eton mess but with a couple of exceptions it's been p great since about October

Not a bad effort I guess

[Tsunade]

Mine for 2017:

Get my own place by Christmas
Lose 2 stone
See my mates more
Save some money
Try to advertise my work more

[Wrathy]

This year I think I'll make it to play Stone'enge. By which I mean either get a partner, get a permanent contract, or something else that'd be a good next move to make. I'm not really sure to be honest though. Where can I realistically go from here?

Failed both. In fairness I couldn't have foreseen my forced move to Reading nor that I'd ultimately landed two placements that weren't particularly good fits for me. Now I've made a bit of a shift towards a career (retail / field management) and a bit more settled down in England (still hate it but whatever) I might be able to see some personal life things into success but it's hard to know. In fairness I did start losing weight and am (was... before Christmas) at my lowest weight for many years so I'm just going to continue that and see where we end up.

[Met]

I'm still a fat piece of eton mess.

Oops.

[JenovaPX]

-Finish this masters
-Sort out post-masters stuff, probably apply for a PhD
-Get published in a journal
-Get a job around Feb-March
-Maybe sort out this youtube thing since it's been a while
-Read Steel Ball Run

-Masters is done
-I have a plan for post-masters jazz now, not ideal stuff but it's stuff
-Paper is out for review with a journal so that's cool
-Job hunt got put off til Aug and still hunting with no joy 8)
-I will sort it out one day
-I read Steel Ball Run

I guess that's a pretty successful year, especially in the eton mess that was 2016. gooseberry fool 2016.

For 2017 I suppose:
-Start this PGCE
-Get a job if any decent stuff opens up here
-Do more artwork, maybe start setting up commissions or something
-Sort out visiting friends
-Read JoJolion
-Laugh at Met more

[Vtheyoshi]

-Play/finish all the games I have in my backlog- Haha holy eton mess no
-Get money- nah not really
-Get gooseberry fool SWOLE- actually working towards this one, I've made some decent progress, though I'm practically nowhere atm; tho I'm proud of how far I've come
-Learn to drive once I reach the correct age- nah see I aint allowed to until I finish my exams
-Draw more- started doing this recently, been getting a lot better
-Write more- lol gooseberry fool that
-Get a decent computer- yeah I wish
-Get gud at smash (not happening l m a o)- i did try for a bit, but idk
-Stop being an academic failure and study more (this is the important one)- kind of; I gooseberry fool up my AS exams, I revise A LOT more now, but idk how well I'll do

Now for this year's:

-Be consistent with exercise
-Get a summer job
-Play dem gooseberry fool games
-Keep the rate of study up
-Keep at the drawing/art
-Actually learn to drive

[Yubel]

My new year's resolution, as ever, is to simply achieve more. Happy New Year guys.

Build that wall.

[Shio hime]

I haven't made resolutions for New Year in a few years now, I just resolve to do stuff when I realise that it needs doing. That way I'm never too ambitious and I still get stuff done.

[Robbo-92]

Well out of the 3 I put down last year I achieved one, I did lose a bit of weight that I've probably put back on over Christmas so it'll be back to an exercise regime for me tomorrow!

Still need to work on the job front, I kind of find it a scary prospect when I still have no idea what I'd actually like to do with my life. Current jobs better than no job though I guess.

[Casplen]

So last year in all its eton mess I at least carried on with comedy (did two whole fringe shows to varying degrees of success), got a bit fitter, and somehow ended up with a boyfriend, so I guess for 2017 I just want more of the same. But nah I said I'd eat healthier and today's diet consisted of mostly ginger nuts. I've started well.

[OrangeRakoon]

Ginger is a medicinal spice so you're fine.

Not strictly new years resolutions, more current personal projects that are in my mind going into the new year, but I guess that's as close as I'll get:

- Continue writing novel that I finally started before Christmas
- Major update this place for modernness, and generally get back to doing SONM things
- Continue to fight my games backlog
- Organise more of my trip to China in March (flights booked two days ago, so it's actually happening now)
- Personal coding projects - have been messing with writing browser addons recently, and I'm currently rebuilding my old laptop so I will finally be running ubuntu at home
- Do some more art/T-shirt designs
- Expand my website, esp. with up to date CV
- Sort out my email accounts
- Keep saving money and organise finances some more following bank switch and phone contract last year

Looking further on in the year, in the summer I'd like to go on holiday somewhere with my girlfriend, and towards the end of 2017 I have a good friend's wedding that I'm a groomsman at so we'll have the stag before that.

[Sir_Bowser]

Get better at drawing, get better at coding, get a fancy tattoo, successfully move out on my own to a new area, make friends and join stuff in said new area, go on holiday somewhere nice with my boyfriend, stick at eating vegan, get a job that isn't godforsaken retail, stay generally positive.

Already on my way to some of them and am preparing to move sometime in the next few months, so I'm pretty excited! The ones that involve practising skills will be the hardest because I'm lazy as gooseberry fool.