maybe this year will be better than the last

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“I think I like even-numbered New Years better than odd-numbered New Years.”
“Funny, when you’ve spent the last two even years celebrating without me.”

New Year Resolutions: 2006
I break resolutions like nobody’s business. But I have good intentions, so at least that’s saying something. Note resolution number 5!

1. There’s the old standby: nailbiting. I have been pledging to stop biting my nails since I was 11. My goal is by next year to now feel compelled to gnaw off my fingernails at the slightest amount of stress. Hi, my name is Sarah and I’m a compulsive self-eater.

2. I can’t believe that I’m writing this at the same time as I’m devouring a quesadilla full of eggs&bacon (with hash browns on the side!), but I want to eat more healthy foods this year. I’m not going on a diet because I hate them & break them like New Years resolutions. But, you know, maybe I’ll try eating vegetables once a week or something. French fries are a vegetable, right?

3. Kind of going along with #2- exercise. Again, it’s not because I want to be on a diet or anything but because I like it and it’s supposed to decrease stress. This could conceivably help with #1 as well.

4. Get rid of my credit card debt. Oh, relocation money, come make me rich again! No, seriously. Boeing owes me $1100, and this is all on my credit card.

5. Write more. Internet and ink. Look! I really do care! Essentially, I’m embarrassed that I have more than a year on my contents page. I insist on at least being into 2005 by March.

6. Read more. I’ve been rereading all of my books, which I’ve already read&reread 7645675 times before. I will join the library and complete that 50-books-per-year thing they have going on at Livejournal. So… book recs? Anyone?

7. Take a class on something not technical. Or, take a class on something technical. Basically, learn something new because I miss college (although it could conceivably because I only studied when I was several sheets to the wind & I associate studying with boozing).

That’s all. I’m boring. But look! I’m updating!

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January 4, 2006

Though it may be the lowest priority on your list, they actauly sell a nail polish to help you stop biting your nails… its oderless and colorless, but tastes like week-old roadkill. From what i’ve heard, it’s prety effective 🙂 Good luck with the other 5, i think they sell things to help with those too 😛

January 4, 2006

the historian by elizabeth kostova. white oleander by janet fitch. good luck! and yay for writing more!! 🙂

January 4, 2006

the nailbiting thing = me, too. i didn’t succeed last year, le sigh.read the Kushiel trilogy by Jacqueline Carey. and the Sword of Truth series.i wish you would write more, too; do that one! whee!laura

January 4, 2006

I too am a self eater. This is probably one of the reasons I get my nails done… although they are much prettier and i feel sexier when I have them all acrylic’d up but yea..I chew my nails. I too would like to read more….. I always say I will, and I never do. xoxoxo Happy New Year, 2006 mmm 🙂 xoxoox Jezsyka

January 4, 2006

the fountainhead by ayn rand.xox,

January 4, 2006

the kite runner by hosseini for something moving and incredibly written. magical thinking by augusten boroughs for an amazingly sarcastic, pyschologically disturbed gay man’s life stories. angela’s ashes by frank mccourt. if u havent read da vinci code get on that! and his other book, angels and demons. im on a reading spree right now, so ill let ya know if i think of anything else!

January 4, 2006

“French fries are a vegetable, right?”That’s my thinking!-

January 4, 2006

A million little pieces by James Frey Happy 2006!! xoxoxx

January 4, 2006

ryn// lol, i feel the love. oh the choices! ps. the blue mascara? def found at drugstores! fun for everyone!(on a budget!)

its kind of a lose lose situation. i’ve got all kinds of resolutions but writing things down makes them hurt.

January 5, 2006

ooh, this one has a pretty picture unlike livejournal. happy new year, love. -m

January 7, 2006

Read more. Think I will add that to the list. I have all these books I want to read and need to read.

January 27, 2006

*gasp!* did i catch an ever-so slight counting crows reference in your title? *sighs* maybe i’m just hoping so. i’ve read a couple of your entries. your writing style is lovely. . . take care!