Before I get into the res­o­lu­tions for next year I think it’s best to do a final tally of the 2008 ones.

1. Start home brew­ing beer
2. Learn to bake bread and bread related products
3. Learn how to make my own sausages.
4. Increase exer­cise to coun­ter­act the effects of a beer/sausage/bread diet
5. Fin­ish writ­ing my novel
6. Get at least two short sto­ries published
7. Learn more Italian

I wrote up an update around Sep­tem­ber for my post a day and not much has changed since then.

I made beer and started learn­ing Ital­ian. Most impor­tantly I put a lot of effort towards increas­ing my daily exercise.

Way back at the begin­ning of the year I was given a free ses­sion card for the gym located in the same build­ing as I work. Given the heavy fees most gyms charge find­ing that lit­tle card was like find­ing a golden ticket to health­i­ness. It was only 10 ses­sions, and I only man­aged to use 9 of them, but for 30 min­utes I worked myself like a dog.

I also hit a sep­a­rate gym close by the house for a cou­ple of spin classes. If you’ve never been, spin class is hell. 45 min­utes of con­stant leg mov­ing, inter­sected with peri­ods of stand­ing, sit­ting and high ten­sion leg break­ing. After all that you get to nap, wait a week and do it all over again. Fun with a cap­i­tal F.

So thats 1, 4, half of 6 and part of 7. Although you could argue that 7 was vague enough that it would never ever be ‘com­pleted’. In fact all of those res­o­lu­tions weren’t as fleshed as they could’ve been. Three and a bit res­o­lu­tions out of seven com­pleted. Ter­ri­ble, just terrible.

I’m ram­bling again, so I’d bet­ter get to the list for 2009. I’ve tried to make it a lot more detailed so there’s actual goals to reach:

1. Learn how to make bread. Be able to make sour­dough and whole­meal high tin loaf.
2. Go on a mush­room pick­ing tour.
3. Con­vince the Ital­ian com­mu­nity to let me get involved in mak­ing sausages.
4. Sub­mit fic­tion to at least two short story competitions.
5. Fin­ish a 100 page script for Script Frenzy in April.
6. Par­tic­i­pate in Dry July.
7. Loose 10 kilograms.

So that’s seven mod­er­ately easy res­o­lu­tions. Same num­ber as last year. Now I just need to keep them.

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