New Years Resolutions

Okay, so here I figured I'd actually done a "New Years" blog... apparently it got lost in cyberspace. Well this new year has been a pretty good one so far, but has come with the disappointment of not yet having flying cars or robots to do our bidding. Some would say we have robots of sorts, and that really any car can fly if you launch it hard enough, but I didn't start my New Year to launch cars, so let's move on.

Have you made any resolutions? Have you stuck to them? I have found that the more general you make a resolution the easier it is to uphold. This may seem a bit obvious, sort of like saying "eat less" as opposed to "eat less on every other Monday, except Bank Holidays or when it involves muffins." but my resolution is a little different. My resolution is "be less rubbish." this afford me a little breathing room, as I can well say that facing one of my biggest fears or kicking a bad habit would count as "being less rubbish" just as much as sleeping past my alarm by 29 minutes as opposed to 30 minutes is "being less rubbish." Regardless, it works, but why does it work? It works the same way that all resolutions should work. We set ourselves a target, and when we achieve that target then we feel generally good about ourselves. This is why eating less on every ohter Monday, except Bank Holidays or when it involves muffins is a bad idea, but eating less in general is a good idea, because everytime you achieve a small part of your target, you're still getting somewhere, and it feels good.

I've slowly been picking at bits and bobs about myself that have been making me feel better and better about myself as I've been going along, and it's starting to make me embrace change rather than fear it. So I beg you all - face your fears, no matter how small they are. I spent a long time not doing a lot of things because I just thought I didn't like them or didn't want to, when in reality it was because I was scared to try.

I now have a weekly cooking slot, every Friday night. This is good because I can finally try some things out on a few people rather than just myself. Last night I tried a chicken casserole recipe. As it goes, the recipe was actually shit and so I had to adjust it a bit. It didn't turn out perfect, but was actually alright, and resembled more of a "soup with chunks of chicken, carrot and mushrooms". Next time I'm going to turn it into something like chicken noodle soup. It was a good start regardless.

This has been a bit of a positively charged blog post, so here's something to balance it out a bit:

I still really fucking hate Twilight*1.

Ja ne~

*1 Hatemail ensues