Resolutions

I’m preemptively making a few resolutions for the coming year. These are the two that I’ve set so far:

• No more fast food. Yes, the stuff is extremely unhealthy, but that’s not why I’m going to refrain from eating it. The real reason is because the last time I purchased fast food, I ended up spending over $500 just so I could get my window to roll back up. If that isn’t a sign, then I don’t know what is. Whether I’ll end up eating more cup o’ noodles or ham and cheese sandwiches, I don’t know, but I have determined not to spend a dime at a fast food restaurant in 2010.
• Blog at least once a week. I’m horrible at posting to this blog on a regular basis. As of today, I have at least three recipes that I need to publish. To demonstrate how backlogged I am on other topics, I still haven’t posted the pictures from some of the concerts I attended back in July. Pitiful.
• Date more. Preferably the same girl on a more frequent basis, but if not, at least just go on more dates in general. In theory, this should be easy, because as a college student with a full-time job, it’s not like I can’t afford to date on a regular basis. The problem is that I simply don’t meet a lot of girls outside of my ward, which severely limits my social life.

There are also a couple of things that I would like to resolve to do but know that there is no reasonable way for me to fit them into my current schedule:

• Use my gym membership. I will probably cancel mine in January. I opened a membership last spring, but I stopped going on a consistent basis once classes began in the fall. I’ve just avoided paying the $100 cancellation fee in the hopes that I would, my some far-fetched miracle, actually find time between the constraints of a full-time job, classes, and my meager social and ecclesiastical obligations. In hindsight, I should have just purchased some adjustable weights.
• Learn French. A goal of mine since I was 17, but something I’ve never been able to find the time to do. With a major that doesn’t lend itself to elective courses, my only chance to learn French has been through audio courses, which don’t really work that well for me. Thanks to my fluency in Spanish, I can understand a fair amount of written French, but I can’t comprehend or speak it at all. (But I can at least say that last bit!)
• Learn to play the guitar. I’d like to get back to playing piano, but it will be a long time before I have either the space or the capital for even a budget upright. Until then, I’d like to learn to play the guitar. One of my good friends once told me “For as well as you can play Guitar Hero, you might as well just learn to play a real guitar.” The problem is, I don’t have time to play video games at all, let alone find a tutor who’s available in the evenings.

Those last three are more like future resolutions – things I’ll resolve to do once I’ve graduated and have at least a little more free time in the evenings.

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