Maybe I should just give up procrastinating...
It's the end of the year, and I guess it hasn't gone too badly, but mostly I think it will end up blending in my memory with the two years before that.
I am not really a resolution kind of a girl, and the ones I have made haven't stuck, but for 2008, I am giving up alcohol. My body hates it in a supremely intense way (like, two days of hangover for a shot of wine), and I just really don't want that so much anymore. I have to admit, though, that I like being drunk. Besides the lowered inhibitions thing and the warmth and the happy little buzz, I enjoy fighting against impaired bodily functions: I like making music drunk, I like playing flute with my mouth frozen from dental work, I like seeing how far I can go before giving into a migraine, I walk faster up hills than on flat ground, and let's just say it's probably a good thing drunk driving is illegal. I like testing myself to see how coherent I can be, how straight I can walk, how easily I can pass off being a sober person (not very). I will miss it, remember it fondly, and maybe try to pick it up again someday. But for now, 2008 is the year of the sober.
And where does this depart from 2007, really? At least it will be easy to keep (hah, watch this be the year when everyone tries to ply me with drink..). If I were going for something real, it might be along the lines of 'answering email on time'. The only way I can see this happening is if I have something else with which to procrastinate. I am thinking, housework?
Anyways... Happy New Year. Hope it's a good one.
**Thanks, Ang, for the card :D Twas lovely getting real mail.
I am not really a resolution kind of a girl, and the ones I have made haven't stuck, but for 2008, I am giving up alcohol. My body hates it in a supremely intense way (like, two days of hangover for a shot of wine), and I just really don't want that so much anymore. I have to admit, though, that I like being drunk. Besides the lowered inhibitions thing and the warmth and the happy little buzz, I enjoy fighting against impaired bodily functions: I like making music drunk, I like playing flute with my mouth frozen from dental work, I like seeing how far I can go before giving into a migraine, I walk faster up hills than on flat ground, and let's just say it's probably a good thing drunk driving is illegal. I like testing myself to see how coherent I can be, how straight I can walk, how easily I can pass off being a sober person (not very). I will miss it, remember it fondly, and maybe try to pick it up again someday. But for now, 2008 is the year of the sober.
And where does this depart from 2007, really? At least it will be easy to keep (hah, watch this be the year when everyone tries to ply me with drink..). If I were going for something real, it might be along the lines of 'answering email on time'. The only way I can see this happening is if I have something else with which to procrastinate. I am thinking, housework?
Anyways... Happy New Year. Hope it's a good one.
**Thanks, Ang, for the card :D Twas lovely getting real mail.