I think NY’s resolutions are dumb.  I have quit bad habits and started good ones before many times.  Never being on the back of the first of the year, they just come when they come.  But I figured I should write some just to feel festive.  Two Thousand and Ten, you look purty.

7. Throw out some of my old high school clothes.

Fact:  I spent all of my hard earned minimum wages in high school on clothing.   Fact:  I probably dressed fairly trendy for a kid in the nineties.  Fact:  I cannot grow for some reason, so I still fit into all those clothes.  If I dressed in these nowadays, it would probably be akin to someone in 1999 sporting a great pair of acid wash jeans and belly football jersey.   Bottom line, I need to toss the pleather Airwalks and massive amount of Delia*s cataloug clothing that I never, ever wear.

6. Take an ‘electronic’ break.

I spent a week in the sticks last summer.  I had no internet, cell service, or even regular old dial phone.   I didn’t actually think about it much as I was busy chasing chickens and the like.  But now, I am always with the iphone which allows me twitter, facebook, texts, AIM, skype, and once in awhile I make a real phone call.  If it’s here, I am going to use it.   But maybe I’ll make it so it cannot be here for a week or so once again.

5. Stop drinking soda.

I stopped a few years ago.   I  developed a taste for bubbles once again.  I never thought soda was the devil and I still indulged now and then.  But my sometimes 2 cans a day now,  is kinda gross.  This morning I woke up at 4:30, and being as the coffee was taking too long I cracked open a can of cherry coke.  I got heartburn for breakfast.

4. Get a job that does not hurt my back.

Would be easier if I bothered to finish my last year of college…

3. Fly in a plane

Up until I was 24, I could fly anywhere without thinking about it…at all.  Nothing about it bothered me.  Then I took a flight without Max, and I basically lost it.  I kind of wish I had a video of myself on that flight (which was one of those where even the flight attendants freaked a bit).  I was quite literally the worst passenger on the plane at that moment.  After that I flew a half a dozen more times, but I was a wreck the entire time.  So I just decided to quit flying.  That was four years ago.  I’m determined to get over that.

2. Do Something with thepilver.com

It’s nothing.  It has been nothing other than a placeholder or a link to this blog since I bought it almost four years ago.

1.  Listen to Top 40 radio

For the past five years maybe, I’ve read the articles telling me the top however-many-songs from the previous year.  I usually recognize one or two.    It’s not that I don’t listening to popular music that bothers me, it’s that I never hear new music.  I need to fix that.