I don't like making resolutions. The only one that I stuck to and this was years ago was to get myself to stop biting my nails.

I had a bad habit of biting my nails all the time.

I was incredibly overweight last year, so my New Years resolution was to finally get in shape for the first time in my life. I ended up losing 100 lbs, so I've decided to take a year off from making anymore resolutions.

Those who plan to take up a language do study Spanish and I'll give you a big hand! Vanilla and Cheese, is it really like that in there? Lots of people all over this crazy Earth dream of heading for New Zealand, and let's include myself!

Think less.
Use forums less. Maybe stop using them altogether.
More yoga.

Please

Stay off alcohol tbh. That's about it.

Gonna start hitting the gym again. I want to be able to dunk a basketball again, by at least June of this year. Then join a league and dominate.

If you pick French, hit me up I got a tonne of French audiobooks and novels and ****.

I think I'll start working on my French again in the New Year.

My resolution last year was to stop ****ing around with fuckboys

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isn't life without incident? or fun?

If you want help with the French I can help you. It would help me as well.

What exactly is a f**kboy?

I feel this gets asked almost weekly here.

It seems every week I start a new resolution.
Cut back on alcohol, takeaways; work out more, attend more lectures, etc.
But I never live up to it.

So my pledge for 2014 is simply to continue riding the train doing as little as possible to get by and having fun doing it.

My Uni experience is that post.

Though I must warn you, not graduating is pretty grim.

that's kind of my reasoning for not doing a one time resolution because when I feel like something is wrong or I need to change something. I set my own little short term goal regardless of the time of year.

I wouldn't say so, I usually get into trouble or do things I regret. I started drinking when I was 12 and have done it regularly since with a 6 month period of being sober in 2010 and I'm honestly bored of it.

I don't wake up needing a drink and I can go about 10 days without having one fairly easily (with a few minor complaints i.e. at the football) but then as soon as I have one again that's it, I go on a three/four day bender. I have absolutely no decision making when that first drink hits me. I'm one of those types that is begging his mates to stay out at the end of the night and if they fuck off I find another way to carry on the party, will keep on drinking until I black out or fall asleep. Those with self control like my mates don't understand.

Decided enough was enough when I was in hospital two weeks ago last Sunday. Day 18 being sober now.

it really ****ing does, hahaha

Congrats!

Awesome job on the 18 days!

A common misconception about the condition of alcoholism is that it's this one common experience, and that if you don't drink daily you're not affected. I was much the same way, I went through a drying out period that could be anywhere from a couple days to a couple weeks. But eventually I would be back to attacking alcohol (that's definitely the best way to describe the way I drank). The only common experience with each individual is that they do not have the ability to control their drinking.

I hope you have some kind of support system in place. I'm not telling you what to do, mind you, just sharing my own experience.

Cheers mate.

Cheers Paul. That's pretty much it.

And because I'm young and my mates binge too, you get the 'man up' comments and so on, passing it off as 'banter'. I wouldn't say I'm the worst by any means, you wouldn't be able to tell by looking at me as I look healthy, but I want to nip it in the bud now before it gets worse (which it was).

Yeah, I'm doing the best I can without going into detail.

Good. Feel free to message me anytime.

I only have two.

Move out.
Be happy.

The two will be one with the other. Trust me. Once you are on your own, you will have all the independence you can wish for, and you can just be happy and enjoy your own company.

Eh, depends. I wish I could move back home, I barely make enough to support myself with a full time job.

Not really a New Years resolution as much as just something I wanna do: Put on some weight. I've come to terms with being a shorty but being scrawny won't do anymore.

On the opposite end, I live in my own place and make more than enough to support two people and still have some left over. And I make minimum wage. It definitely does depend.

It's absolutely beautiful, we really do live in paradise. Because I'm deep in the city I don't often get to experience it. The west coast in the south island is the middle earth. On the east side we get amazing beaches, lakes and snowy alps.

This year I'm finally going to do it. I'm going to propose to The Batlord.

I get to walk the bride down the aisle.

Essentially, it's a very good life, but you must be careful where you tread.

There are a lot of things to be learned about this world. Please promise us you'll be careful with your money, mindful with the way you spend your time, and entirely grateful for whatever you can obtain for yourself.

It's hard, but doable. I haven't seen my parents in about 2 years; I spent very little of my adult life in their company, and I'm a lot better off, but it has been difficult at times. Your perspective on a lot of things will gradually change and you'll learn so much, but you'll be so much happier once you're comfortable and confident.

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Aye, I do know it's a mesmerising place (few people seem to rejoice at the thought of visiting the most fascinating and dazzling places on Earth, such as New Zealand, the Brazilian beaches, the Argentinian Patagonia, etc), but do things really go awry in the city? I thought the whole of NZ was absolutely well-organised!

On the whole it is. The only thing screwing it up are the people in charge of running it

-to upload a video on my youtube channel.
-work on my a-game to get a numba from a dude.
-go back to school for a ph.D on getting a Pilot liscense.
-get fired from my job. seriously, rude costumers.
-get married. have twins (girl/boy). in the fututre.
-retire from everything. anything is positively possible.

19 inches. Number of inches of my member. Theres ur number from a guy. Check it off ur list girl boom

More New Year resolutions: I'll wolf down copious amounts of cold cuts for starters, then some scrumptious bbq (which I myself will cook), and delectable ice cream to get through a sweltering night. I'll guzzle something more than a standard measure of beer, for water will fix it all later. Oh, I'll be having some training tomorrow :beer:

I'll promise to be a less offensive against other people.

I promise I'm gonna try to develop my English and Swedish cos right now I'm not very good at foreign languages.
Then I promise that I'm gonna find other people to play with. Sadly it is hard to find other people with the same music taste. I would not bother were it a little different but nobody seems to be interested in music at all. Also there are tens of guitarist out there but nobody plays bass so I have been seriously thinking about bying a bass guitar, but I have none of money.

Seems good to me mate, you write more fluently than some English people lol.

Yep, but my accent is not that good, though maybe I'm just just thinking about it too much... But you can never please a perfectionist.
And well, I'm trying to balance my shortcomings of vocabulary with good grammar, though I'm not sure if it is successful or not. The biggest hope I have is that my writings are understandable, nothing else matters that much. You know, that is what languages are for.

Taxman, your English is great! I'd love to pick up -or at least to hear- some Finnish! That must be an impossible language to learn! How was your Christmas night there in Finland? What kind of grub did you have? How was the weather? It's well-known that Finland is a place of some ravishing beauty. I hope I'll achieve my goal of visiting your country before passing away! Cheers!

My resolution:

Stop drinking during weekdays.

Simple enough, eh?

Well, as far as I know, the reason why Finnish is often considered as an imbossible language to learn is because it is different. I mean, Finnish ain't related to indo-European languages, so it may seem hard. The biggest problem for a learners anyway probably our grammar which is, I must say, way too complicated. But it ain't that hard if you come from Hungary or somewhere else where their language is closer to ours.

And what about our Christmas? I dunno is it because the green house effect or not, but we have no snow. Last winter was pretty cold, though, so that may explain it. Also if you go to northern Finland you'll find so much snow that you'll be satisfied.
Personally, I do not like if it is cold, something like -25 C or so, but something like -10 and snow would make me pretty happy.
But that luckily did not affect our Christmas celebration. We just eat a lot and were in sauna two and half hours. Now it may sound crazy but personally I just love saunas. If you go to Finland, you should definitely give them a change. Though I don't know how popular sauna is internationally.

Well, when it comes to Finnish nature and the beauty in t can offer, there are many kinds of it. It depends what you want, but Lapland is a must to check out. Also aurora borealis. Just stay away from those tourist places. The real beauty is somewhere else.
There are many national parks if that's what you're looking for.

Then, when it comes to cities and stuff like that, I guess we have not that much to offer. The biggest city is Helsinki, with 500 000 dwellers, or so.
But anyway, if you wanna see the best Finland has to offer, go to Lapland, summertime, I would recommend, because the sun stays up trough the night and I have find it to be pretty beautiful. In the wintertime,on the other hand, it feels like the sun never shines,but you can't get everything.