By and by, New Year’s resolutions are kinda stupid and clearly ineffectual for most of the population, so I don’t know why I even bother, but here I am, anyway, making 4 resolutions for 2007.
1. Eat more vegetables. Dave’s response to this was “Even more vegetables?!” but I really don’t think we eat enough veggies. Fruit’s no problem, and we eat plenty of meat, lord knows, but we need to figure out how to add more vegetables during snack times and at breakfast.
2. Be nicer to my boss. Or rather, figure out a better, more effective way to communicate. I know there’s a trick to getting the most out of him, but I keep responding with my gut reaction, which is not the most effective.
3. See our friends more. We tend to stay at home a lot, or if we go out to dinner, we don’t think to call and invite our friends. It seems we still struggle to get enough “us time” even though we don’t have very much committed “friend time.” Yesterday, I mentioned via e-mail to a friend that I wanted to go check out Tasca Brava with him, his wife and his wife’s parents who live out of town. The parents were still in town for the holiday so we ended up going last night!
4. Cut down our junk mail. I’m going to start contacting credit card companies and catalogs so that they’ll stop sending junk mail our way. I’ve already contacted Restoration Hardware, Capital One, and GO Magazine.
Last year, my half-hearted resolution was to use a recipe from every cookbook I owned. I half accomplished it. What are your resolutions?
Another one bites the dust – today I got rid of Midweek Values, a publication of the Raleigh News & Observer that is just a bunch of ads. Booyah!
Comment by — January 5, 2007 @ 8:02 pm
We have a tendency to not get together with friends often either. It’s funny, when I was single, I was constantly on the phone, or constantly doing stuff with friends. There’s definitely something about being a new(ish) couple and just doing your own thing! I think it’s a natural occurrence.
Comment by — January 6, 2007 @ 4:42 pm