A happy new year to you. I have made a list of resolutions, which are as follows:
- Finish editing my book (and at at least attempt to con someone into reading its fundamentally unreadable drivel, perhaps with a view to getting it published)
- Organise my music collection to more accurately reflect what I actually like
- Be better at my job
- Do more cleaning
- Do more vacuuming
- Do more dusting
- Do more throwing away of things I don't need
- Start opening my post
- Eat more healthily
- Give up drinking
- Smoke no more than five cigarettes a day
- Have greater control of my finances
- Understand the basic concepts of how I might have greater control of my finances
- Spend less time watching television
- Go to at least one art gallery, museum and cultural attraction (Jesus...I think the last one I went to was with you)
- Get better at staying in touch with my friends, most notably; Caitlin and Jeddy, John and Jo, Stuart and Annabel, Nicole and Andy, Pete and Rachael, Jim and Sarah, Tizz and Jo, Colin and Phil, Dan and Kristin, Sam and Sam
- Get some single friends
- Spend more time with my brothers
- Spend less time worrying about things that have no future (ie: Catfish)
- Stop sending prank emails from other people's computers
- Understand that I am not the centre of the universe and my opinions, moods, whims and frustrations are almost always absolutely irrelevant to everyone, including me
- Stop buying domestic products that I already own, just in case I've lost them (ie: soy sauce....I now have four bottles)
- Listen more
- Resume running round Wimbledon Park
- Work harder at keeping in touch with friends I rarely get to see
- Make my parents understand how appreciative I am of their counsel
- Try and have at least one semi-meaningful relationship with a (nice) woman
- Read Ulysses
- Re-cultivate and tend the herb / vegetable patch until it yields at least one product that can actually be used in cooking
- Be nicer to people
All in all, not a bad list I'd say. The important ones are 1, 3, 21 and 30. I'll keep you informed of my progress. Also, today on the train back to London the woman next to me applied her make-up for one hour and nineteen minutes. I kept track.
The world in 2011 already baffles me.
Your loving friend,
Action Squid
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