new year's resolutions

... I know, I know, it's cliché.

First Goal. Veganism.

But I'm going to do it. My biggest one is the one I was flirting with, embracing, and have been pretty well following since the week after reading week. Veganism. I've decided January first, however, is d-day. (v-day?). No more cheatsies.

Not that I've done any hardcore cheatsies, really. (Whey powder in Ketchup chips, really.. cmon guys.)

You'd be surprised at the junk that has egg, milk or gelatin in it that you'd never expect. But anyway, my GOAL January 1st is to stick with it. Yep, I might cheat, but I'm making a dietary decision, not getting married, so bite me. (Plus, I have a hard time telling crotchety old Aunt Edna that no, dear, I can't eat your cookies. Sometimes you've got to pick your battles. We'll make this rule apply to starry eyed ladies older than 80 only, it does not apply to Subway.)

Second goal. Gym-ing.

Actually go to the damn gym that costs me an arm and a leg. I got the damn thing because I could go whenever, and they have unlimited yoga classes, which I was determined to go to three times weekly. I've gone tot he gym a buncha times (though not nearly enough), but I've only ever attended ONE yoga class. I suck.

Third goal. School.

I did okay this semester, but I could have done better. I really, really could have. I'm toying with the idea of doing all schoolwork at school, and staying at school til it's done on all assignments due less than a week away. I think my big thing is I get home and my time management blows. I have this shitty attitude of "It's due like, four days, from now. I can watch How I Met Your Mother for six hours straight instead of doing homework." This brings be to my fourth goal...

Fourth goal. Less wasted time.

I spend waay too much time using StumpleUpon, Facebook, Google Reader etc. Not to mention watching television. It's not that watching the new episode of the Office once a week is so bad, but I get into new shows and watch entire seasons in a day, accomplishing nothing else. It's disgusting.

Fifth and Final goal. Writing.

I don't write nearly as much as I used to and I need to get back into it. Whose quote this is escapes me right now, but someone awesome said that to be a good writer, you have to write. As in (and I'm slaughtering the quote) you really have to write a lot of words, whether they're good or well written or not, in order to be a good writer. I used to do this, scribble furiously in notebooks all the time (including one very memorable and very intoxicated time at the bowling alley..), now I rarely do, I barely even maintain this blog. But, I'm a-gonna. And, focus more on finishing and submitting things to journals/magazines etc.