First Watcher to break their new year resolution competition

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Good resolution Sarge.

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[sgt.null]

Good resolution Sarge.

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thank you. 5 hours until relief. been up mostly straight through the last day and a half.

[peter]

Did the Dry January challenge without a hitch. Now the harder part of being more restrained and stopping behaving like a 16 y.o. kid when I get some pop in me.

[ussusimiel]

Only made one resolution this year and that was to get a general check-up from my GP (haven't had one in a couple of years). Did that last week and got a clean bill of health, which means that I can now go back to my dissolute ways in good conscience!

peter, I once stopped drinking alcohol as a New Year's resolution and kept it up for two and half years. My close friends were completely miffed for the whole duration (this is Ireland I'm talking about). When I finally started to have a drink again they said that they knew I was 'too sound' to never drink again! While that may be a personal compliment, I'm not sure what it says about our culture's attitude to alcohol

u.

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Hahahaha.

The GF stopped drinking a couple years back. However, it doesn't affect me at all, since I'm used to having a completely different diet to her.

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[peter]

But drinking in Ireland is different U. Once had a drunken discussion on a bench outside a pub in Dublin. It was late on a Friday night, my companion was a down and out and our subject was Orwell.

[MsMary]

Congrats on completing the dry January challenge, peter.

[MsMary]

As for me, I don't make resolutions. So there's nothing to break.

[peter]

Thanks MsMary: actually much easier than I expected!

[balon!]

Good job peter!

I'm sticking with 1920x1080 resolution for 2016, but will break that when my eyes won't focus properly.

I made and broke my resolution (again); keeping track of everything i read this year. I just read so voraciously lately, it doesn't occur to me... although I recently re-activated my librarything account so maybe that'll encourage me.

[Linna Heartbooger]

balon!

I made and broke my resolution (again); keeping track of everything i read this year. I just read so voraciously lately...

Sounds like a fun reason to break that new years resolution!

[balon!]

Hi!!

I was about a dozen deep before i remembered i was supposed to be keeping track... Oops...

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I made and broke my resolution (again); keeping track of everything i read this year.

I use the Watch to keep track. I just post everything in the "What Are You Reading" threads as I go.

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[balon!]

Mmmm... Two birds right? Good idea.

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Damn right. If I wanted to, I could look back and tell you what I was reading at any given time for the last 12 years.

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[peter]

I've added a resolution...... this year for my once weekly 'special meal' , I'm never going to serve food that I have not prepared myself (ie no supermarket pre-prepared dishes). It will make me be more inventive and adventurous with my food.

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I thought you always did prepare it yourself?

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[peter]

I do a lot Av, but am not above succumbing to the easy route of pre-prepared stuff if it looks good (from say M&S). But it's a lazy option and one I intend to stop.

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It does have its advantages though. (You mean like stuff that's already peeled and chopped and whatnot?)

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[peter]

Not so much veg as say the occasional dish like duck a l'orange. I can do it myself, but it's just easier to grab their pack off the chiller and save the bother. Mostly I do my own dishes, but the tendency to this soft option has been creeping up as I get more indolent with age, and I'm going to take myself into a different room and give myself a stiff dressing down!