At the beginning of the year, I wrote up a bunch of resolutions for myself, in order to make 2008 a more perfect year. I feel like today’s a good day to catch up on them, because if I were to write about what happened last night, I could sum it up with the following sentence: Don’t go see The Ruins, and Dutchess of Kickball, Flick and Chatie, please accept my apology for suggesting that we should go.

Moving on, this is what I resolved to do, and how it’s going:

  • Write thank you notes and send them. Via actual mail. Haven’t sent a one, even to the people who came to my birthday party and brought me nice things. I totally suck on this one. Is four months too late, Emily Post?
  • Remove the prizes from their box and send them to the winners of NaCoPoMo. Via actual mail. I did it! Mostly… RDL sent me her address after I sent the other 5 packages, so I still need to send hers. And Deb’s watch is still sitting on my desk and I need to do that. No more contests until I get this done.
  • Get to my pre-gimp activity level and weight. Almost! Vegan March helped a lot, and now that I’m running again, there will be no stopping me.
  • Compete in a swim meet. Done! And I just signed up for another one!
  • Not gossip about people. If they are in the same room as me. Uh… Might have slipped once or twice here. Does “outside” count as the same room?
  • Write something other than the blog. Something where the subject isn’t “me.” Thank you, Chose Your Own Blogventure!
  • Clean my stove after I use it. Yeah, and do the dishes right away, too. ha. Depends on how you define “after I use it.” I cleaned it yesterday, after I used it on Sunday.
  • Visit NYC more often. Refuse to be bridge and/or tunnel. Need to work on that one, but I’m going down again next Sunday for a haircut.
  • Save money by not blowing it on frivolous things like $25 tickets on the train to the city. Credit card bill was a little higher than I meant it to be last month.
  • Never pay a late fee again. Not so much, see above.
  • Read more books, write down what they are so I can remember when I lend them to friends. I have been keeping track, but I can’t be bothered to sign up to record them on the social networking sites.
  • Wash my face every night. Okay, I started this, but then I stopped because it was making me break out more. It turns out that I have very dry skin.
  • Generally be less of a slob. (ed note: yeah, right.) That worked for about a week.
  • Not always have to eat everything on my plate. If I feel full, I will use my food containers and create leftovers. I cannot exercise this control over pasta, which has control over me.
  • Prove that volunteering isn’t just for the churchy folk. Does working a second job count as volunteering? No? Damn.
  • Really get a handle on the lives of celebrities so I don’t have any more awkward moments where I can’t talk about Britney and Lindsey and Paris. Accomplished by subscribing to Celebitchy on my RSS feed. Really, ask me anything.

I guess I still have some work to do before I’m a perfect person. I’ll get right on that, I swear.