A little late, but what New Year Resolutions have Afterworders made for 2016?
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A little late, but what New Year Resolutions have Afterworders made for 2016?
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After reading today that a can of pop, a bar of chocolate and a glass of fruit juice contain 9 (NINE!), 6 and 5 cubes of sugar respectively, I am going to try and give this stuff up or at least serious reduce it. Worse than alcohol!
NINE!!
Alcohol for me. Also procrastination. Time-wasting.
I was going to do procrastination but will leave it until next year I think.
To keep up with the daily mindfulness meditation, then the other necessary changes will stem from this. (Hopefully.)
More mundanely, I have started a new exercise program I would like to finish instead of titting about from one thing to another, like I usually do.
@bargepole What are yours?
@rubyblue, now the working week has been reduced to three days, would like to do more work helping out local charities, be it offering professional advice to those who otherwise would have no access to it, or more mundanely simply helping out at the local animal sanctuary or dog rescue centre.
Like you, also intend to stick with the mindfulness meditations my therapist introduced me to, rather than doing them for a few days and then not getting round to them for the next fortnight!
@bargepole That sounds excellent! Hope it goes well.
Yes, I was the same with the meditation: did it here and there but it never became a habit. It was only recently when I started doing it 20 mins a day, every day at the same time, that it became something I did regularly and even looked forward to. I like the Headspace app but it may not be your kind of thing.
@rubyblue @bargepole – I know I could google, but what are mindfulness meditations?
I have the usual get fit and eat right resolutions. I lost a bunch of weight (3st) in the couple of years leading up to the end of 2014 and while I haven’t put it *all* back on, I have regained over half. Idiot. (No coincidence that it piled back on when I took my current and hated job, which made me too busy and tired to train. I’ve decided – sod that. I’m going to train.)
Drink more water (this is a perma-resolution that renews every year)
Get my 10k time down to something a bit more respectable
Read Cerebus the Aardvark in its entirety (even the dubious bits)
Surf more
Good luck with that. Even Dave Sim thinks he is the only person to have read all the difficult bits of text in Cerebus. It does look good though
I read up to about issue 200 as a teenager, so I’ve been through a lot of the text sections and the horrible misogyny once before. Just going to grit my teeth and push on through.
Obviously, the first half will be a total joy. Can’t wait to get back into High Society and the two Church and State books – probably my favourite comics of all time.
Oh man, the text sections in Reads are nothing compared to what lies ahead of you in Latter Days.
Duuuuuude. That is categorically not what I need to hear!
I think you need to join me on my odyssey, Kid.
Okay @bingo-little, I’m in. I’ve been meaning to do it for years, and it’s not like there’s another dozen books in the TBR pile by the bed*.
One phonebook a month, and a thread here that we (and maybe @paulwright) will probably be the only ones to contribute to?
*it is quite a lot like that, actually.
Fantastic! Not only will this hold me to my resolution, but it’ll also help generate some excellent chat, and the blog’s most niche ever thread.
We can look back bitterly on the sunny optimism of the above come August when we’re wading through long text tracts on why women killed Jesus.
I’ve been meaning to reread Cerebus for a long time. I’ll probably skip the Bible commentary this time round though.
The last resolution I made was to be less modest. Ever since then I haven’t made any. Resolutions are after all for the less than perfect.
I have/had a few;
1. Count to 10 & do not get p*ssed off with work. I failed at 7:10a.m. this morning!
2. Not being negative
3. Read more
4. As dai mentions above, less sugar (NINE!). I am carrying a bit of timber at the moment so need to shift it by eating better.
I shall renew my annual resolution never to play golf again. It’ll have been 14 years since I last picked up a club and I think I’m beginning to get the hang of it.
I wonder if we could wind back five years, how similar would the “resolution” thread read to this one. It was the time of the Chubby Checkers, which was probably the best weight loss support group I’ve ever experienced (and the only one).
I always find January the most inappropriate time to make commitments. Rather than Christmas, just after Easter would work better for me.
Still, the scales tell me that I am a stone heavier than I was three months ago and my trousers are pinching just a little tighter than they were before Christmas and so I’ll publicly say that I will lose a Stone and a half before the Summer is upon us. I do miss that Chubby Checker Thread!
“The Time of the Chubby Checkers”.
Still the best Christmas episode of Dr Who.
@martin-s The Chubby Checkers have been reborn! (I was putting together a blog post just as you mentioned it). I’m hoping you’ll join up so I won’t be talking to myself…
To find the time to listen to the stuff I acquire: hell’s teeth, why do they make so many records………
I thought it would be easier as there are now so few shops but it isn’t.
I’m clearly going to have to take a longer route to work, especially when idiots put out triple CDs. (And, Mr bloody Kamasi Washington, it doesn’t even fit on 2 discs…………..)
Either that of resign from e music.
(as posted on Facetube a couple of days ago)
Contemplating New Years Resolutions.
They need to be achievable, yet at the same time represent some form of challenge.
They also need to be given a fair time to achieve, and not be ignored or forgotten by the time February rolls around.
After due consideration, my resolutions are the following:
I will not give up smoking
I will not give up drinking
I will not stop eating junk
I will strive not to exercise too much
It will be tough, but with a little application, I fell confident that I will stick to these promises to myself
I’m in! Highly recommended folks. I’ve got my starting position all ready to go.
Stop buying books I have no time to read. Stick to the vast pile of unread stuff on my shelves. Try to last longer than a month.
Bingo, there are new editions of High Society and Cerebus, and C&S vols 1&2 on the way. Might be worth trying the spruced up printing.
Post 200 there are some startling bits of anti-feminist polemic, a re-telling of the first books of the bible, and occasional reminders that Sim can be funny and tell a story along with Gerhard’s sumptuous backgrounds. I keep meaning to re-read myself, but suspect I will end up back reading Locas from Love and Rockets
Not to get all maudlin but to make time to see those that matter to me rather than assuming they will always be there.
@badartdog Ok, off the top of my head so apols if this is rubbish.
In practice, it helps you to observe your thoughts , good and bad, rather than distract yourself or get buried in them.
You are encouraged to breathe, and note your thoughts without acting on them- are they ‘thinking’ or ‘feeling ‘ thoughts? Positive or negative? And if you get distracted, which you will , just note it and go back to the breathing.
So you become an observer of thoughts rather than immediately acting on them.
Do obviously it doesn’t go into deeper causes of negative thoughts, anxiety, problems etc bug treats thoughts like passing clouds ; they’re just thoughts.
I have some philosophical problems with the approach which are too dull and wanky to go into here but I think it has been very good for something like acute anxiety, where one’s thoughts are out of all proportion to the actual threat, do you can observe and note that you are anxious , rather than go down the rabbit hole into panic.
Not a panacea, but it’s helpful. 🙂
Interesting – thank you for that, @rubyblue
I’ll investigate further.
Oh bloody phone but you get the drift.
Mindfulness has become something of a buzzword at the moment – this is a decent book, but in particular it has a series of useful meditations on the cd that comes with it.
thank you, @bargepole
Spend less time mindlessly perusing my phone, trawling the internet for latest information on Rotherham United, and writing ‘witty’ remarks on Facebook and other blogs……..oops !