Resolution List for 2005

[yolen]

1. To say "no" to people when I need to, and stick with it.
2. To remember that I'm not responsible for the expectations my relatives have of me, and I'm not obligated to do everything they want me to do.
3. To set aside my insecurities and write those stories I keep meaning to write, no matter how crappy I'm afraid they'll be. 
   
4. To take care of

Comments

[onecrazymother]

oooh, let's all think of fun things for you to try.

sushi?
driving?
Ethiopian food?
growing a plant from a seed?

[fings]

I'll go for Ethiopian food! I've been meaning to try that for years.

More new things and places:

Travel outside the USA.
Camping.
Learning to ride a bicycle?
Skinny dipping.

[yolen]

Lissette=poor, but otherwise travel (in theory) sounds great! I should get my damn passport at the very least.
Camping, well, why not? You get to hold my hand when a bear or something pops by :).
I'd love to learn how to ride a bike. It'd be great exercise. Plus, I'm tired of the incredulous looks I tell people I can't. The look on your face when I told you was priceless!!
Skinny dipping......meh, why the hell not? But you're helping with the sunscreen.

[greenquotebook]

Wow! Another one! My buddy orpheusinhades can't ride a bike either!

[eafm]

Fun things for yolen, huh? Hmm...

How about:
kayaking
hang gliding
snow boarding
painting a mural
hiking the appalachian trail
learn to rewire a lamp

Also, while it's not exactly convenient to you, the Ethiopian restaurant in Montclair is excellent!

[yolen]

These are some doozies.

Kayaking, I'm not sure about this one. Possibly. I know kayaking is something fings has done and he was mildly puzzled when I said it was one of those things that had never occurred to me to try. What can I say, I'm an big city girl. Um, maybe. If he get it in his mind to go sometime, I suppose I can tag along.

I'll have to pass on the hang gliding, I'm too afraid of heights.

Snow boarding...um, not really interested in any kind of skiing or snowboarding.

Painting a mural, sure, that would be fun!

Hiking the Appalachian trail.....how bout just going hiking, period, which I've never really done on an ambitious scale. The closest I've come to hiking was wandering the grounds around my college campus a few times for like an hour, tops.

I own like, one lamp. I guess learning how to rewire one could come in handy someday. We'll see.

Thanks for the suggestions!

[eafm]

Or I'll take you out to my parents house and we can use their kayaks before they move off LI -- they're looking to move shortly after my dad retires next year, but right now they're within walking distance of both the ocean and a lake with great kayaking potential.

The lamp thing came to mind because I watched my grandfather repair an extension cord, this summer, and it occurred to me that that's the kind of skill that must be really good to know in a particularly bizarre emergency.