My New Year’s resolutions

Hello all. I am lazy. And I have neglected my duties here at Geek6. The other day Josh turned a hose on me in an effort to get me off of the couch. Didn’t work. So then he brought in honey, dumped it on me and turned over the office ant farm. Eh. But something in the end shook me from my slumber and I am here once again.

So over the past two weeks, through the rest of vacation and getting back to work (only to have yet another day off Monday), I have been thinking to myself, I need to set some really good New Year’s resolutions.

I have never been one to set resolutions, even worse at keeping them. So this time around I told myself to be serious. And here is what I have come up with…

Resolution #1 – Resolve to have meaningful resolutions

Might as well start easy right? I get one under my belt and maybe I can rock the rest of these. But what good is a resolution if it means absolutely shikaka. So out goes the clean the room/house/car/garage resolution. That is just every day life.

Resolution #2 – Stop being such a dick to my friends

I have this inherent two sided nature. I have always been told I am one of the friendliest guys that people meet and that I am also one of the most helpful. But that always tends to come from people outside of my inner circle. But somehow when it comes to that inner circle I turn on them like a pack of hyenas in a monkey cage. Out comes the sarcasm and the picking and the punching of the buttons. And it just continues and continues. I don’t know how I still have the friends I do. And I am probably like this due to the very inner core of my inner circle, the guys I grew up with. I have always told people the minute I start busting on you is the time when I have come to like you. But this year, I will attempt to curb that behavior and hopefully reap some karma on the other side.

Resolution #3 – Just being nice in general

Maybe this is just a little too closely related to #2. But totally different in function. Face to face I tend to treat people with respect and try to understand where they are coming from and help them with what they ask for. After all that is basically my job during the daytime hours anyways. But once they leave, I better hope they didn’t stash a hidden microphone because what tends to leave my mouth at certain times just isn’t creating the best voojoo in the world. I love my snark and sarcasm. But it only comes out when you are not around, or the snark and sarcasm about you. In general its bad form. And I will keep it in my head.

Resolution #4 – Try out that Lent thing

I have never observed Lent in my life much less given up something for it. Sure I believe in a higher power, but I have always gone about it in my own way. I wasn’t raised Catholic. I was raised in a Lutheran family. You know, the drunk, liberal Catholics? After all Martin Luther, who the church is named after, actually stayed a Catholic his whole life after posting his 95 Theses to the Catholic church. So really we are one in the same. But Lutherans tend not to give up stuff. Like I said, never did. But this year I thought I would try something new. To test the ole willpower. And I would just like to say that I have already even chosen what will be sacrificed for Lent. And that my friends is soda. A substance I have not been without since I was five years old for longer than a 48 hour period. That means the nectar of the gods that is Diet Coke will be gone for at least 40 days….not counting Sundays so I have been told.

Resolution #5 – Shed a couple of pounds

Cliché! Yes it is. But amazingly enough, this is one that I would have fun doing if only I would get off my lazy ass and do it. I enjoy taking a hour run at 10 pm at night with only my iPod to distract me. And I can actually do it. I understand how to do it on a physiological level. My masters degree is in exercise sports science for creators sake. And on occasion over the past couple of years I have done it when I set my mind to it, but not for prolonged periods of time. The last time it was prolonged? I dropped some 30 pounds and found me a girl to get hitch to all proper like. And nope, I was not running to woo the girl, it was just an added benefit. I actually think it was because I lived in a small town in Texas where there was not much to do past 10 pm. Well now I live in one of those in Utah.

Resolution #6 – Read more

As I have been blatantly clear with all of yous, I am the slowest reader in the world. But I do adore the activity so. It is because of that reason that I am still reading the book I began in October. I am slowly realizing that the place not to read is as you crawl into bed for the night when you really only sleep for about five hours each night. So that means ignoring the television and computer here and there and just settling down to read a chapter or two. After all my books to read list has grown quite large.

So there you go. That is what I will attempt to adjust in my life, a lasting adjustment. And you will totally get updates to as I go along. Other than that, I wish everyone a belated Happy New Year.

P.S. Just so Josh stops pelting me with Pez I also resolve to stop be lazy and actively resume my activity at Geek6.

P.P.S. I am bringing back a personal feature for my blogs that I used to have in my other blog…my “Currently Listening To” feature which showcases my extreme craptastic taste in music.

Currently listening to:
Artist: Cory Monteith
Song: Can’t Fight This Feeling
Album: Glee, Vol. 1