I have to be honest with myself: I never really keep my New Years resolution. Like the rest of the populous, I go into the New Year full of hope for change in whatever resolution I have set… only to either forget about it or get bored with it by the end of January. The new years going into 2008 I had promised myself to take a photo everyday of that year… something that got broken by the end of January due to being snowed in most of the month and seriously? My parents house isn’t that interesting.

This year I’m not going to set any grandiose resolutions I will quickly become frustrated with in the New Year but set more generalized goals…. stuff I am already working on which I hope further to work upon in the coming year. I know I loose patience easily and some of these will go up in smoke but hey, why not go into the New Year with a new outlook and hopefully a sense of motivation?

• Blog More. This fall/winter I’ve been sick a lot , and unmotivated with life in general. With that, I’ve been feeling generally a very uninteresting of a person and set huge goals for myself in this personal blog. I need to take a chill pill and just write for me instead of bottling it up inside… which I’m really, really good at.
• Actually do projects I talk about with friends. One of my friends and I have wanted to write a book or two together for a few years now. We started outlining the plot and due to both of us having lots of personal issues with our lives it got put on the back-burner. My friends’ new years resolution is to write our stories so hey! It should be my resolution as well!
• Test my hand in the arts again. I’ve gotten in a flux artistically in the past two years. I used to draw a lot more and have always wanted to try traditional methods of art as well as pushing the envelope digitally. I also want to learn more photography and, while not set the unrealistic goal of taking a photo everyday, try to take more photos. Course, I should probably invest in a new camera instead of stealing Mack’s, but I digress. Perhaps with this goal I should post the attempts online in my blog to get critique? My half-brother is always encouraging me to expand myself artistically and, in 2009, I’m really going to make an effort.
• Organize my life more. With the sickness and general feeling so blah I’ve had for the past few months our apartment can kind of get out of control. I made a dent while Mack was out of town but it’s starting to slip again. In 2009 I want to promise myself to devote two-hours on the weekend to just picking up the apartment, just for general sanity sake. That and keep up with the damn dishes.
• Exercise. This one will be a slow to work into goal but I think in either going to the gym or taking up running it will help with my energy levels and I won’t want to sleep 24-7. 
• And finally: keep in better touch with people. I suck at communication. The only people I talk to on a consistent basis is Mack (since we live together) and my Mom (since I want to stay in the will). I’m pretty bad at communicating and generally catching up. This is a two-way street I realize but, for my part, I want to make an honest effort to try and stay in better touch with people.

In a nut-shell my resolution is: stop envisioning huge projects that are perfect and, by starting as square one and realizing there is a learning curve, I can do all I set my mind so without stressing myself out.

What are YOUR goals for the New Year? And do you think you’ll make them or break them?