Well it’s 2011, who’d of thunk it? We’re one year away from the end of the world, so I thought it’d be a good idea to actually list some New Years Resolutions I can adhere to. These are resolutions I’ll be able to stick with and complete. They’ll have a positive effect on my life if I do them properly. Here they are:

• No buying games. Between the ten or eleven games I got from the Humble Indie Bundle, the Steam Treasure Hunt Sale, the Steam Holiday Sale, and those I just haven’t finished yet, I’m pretty good for games. So, I will not be buying any games for the entire year, excluding a few gems which I unfortunately feel I must have as soon as they come out. They are as follows:
  - Duke Nukem Forever
  - Diablo 3
  - Portal 2
  - Half Life 2: Episode 3
  - Rage
  - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
  - Pokémon Black & White
• - DOTA 2
  There might be others that come out, but I am vowing to wait on those, and wait I must. However, to incentivise the next resolution there is an extra exception.
• Run at least twelve kilometres a month. This is an easy one; all I need to do is go for a run almost once every two days and I’ll be okay. As an incentive for myself, for every 2 kilometres I go over the twelve I’ve set for that month, I’m giving myself a “point”. For every point, I can spend a whole dollar on a game. So if I’ve done eighteen kilometres worth of running that month, I have three dollars to spend on a game. This sort of reward system means I won’t be able to buy a game unless I have done a lot of running in the month. I’m hoping this works as well as it does in my head.
• No purposely leaving early from work. This rule is specifically linked to the “Leave Early Book” at work. This year, I plan to not touch the book at all until I have done and received my tax. There will be exceptions in the form of family emergencies and sickness, but in those cases I shouldn’t need to book it so much as just leave anyway.
• Finish a Wolfenstein 3D Mod. I love Wolfenstein 3D, always have always will. Since joining the active modding community in 2004, I have started and given up on numerous mods. Right now I’m working on a simple one which I want released by the end of the year so I can finally cross it off my list of things to do.
• Build my new computer. With the help of my housemate Paul, I will be saving up and buying the parts to build a new computer, capable of actually playing decent games decently. I see this as being the first one to knock off the list, but yeah.
• Win NaNoWriMo this year. Fuck yeah.

There’s a quote of the week board at work, and this week’s is pretty relevant to the topic of this post:

A New Years Resolution goes in one year and out the other.

The quote is listed as being by “Unknown Author” who it seems has made quite a few memorable quotes. Anyway, on topic.

I’m not making a new years resolution of any sort this year. Why? Well, lets look at last years resolutions:

• Get my Ls
• Lose 5 kilograms
• Finish this year’s NaNoWriMo
• No eating fast food
• Move out
• Get an orbital piercing
• Watch 26 movies in the cinema
• Buy an acoustic guitar
• Buy a top hat
• Stick with the video making thing, no matter how crap they are.
• Learn a language

Now, lets list the ones I actually managed to do:

• Get my Ls

Ok. So I’ve sort of kept with the video making, but I did stop doing it for a major period of time so I cannot count it. So, I can’t keep all those relatively simple resolutions, and I feel pretty shit for it. So I decided this year, I have skipped the whole affair, and therefore skip disappointment. See what I’ve done?

Is anyone else skipping the resolutions thing in favour of just enjoying the start of the decade?