I Hereby Resolve

I hate the snobs who think they're above making New Year's resolutions.  Do they really think there's nothing about themselves that could use some changing?  No aspect of their life has been sliding in the wrong direction?  Really?

Life is busy and crazy and it's easy to lose our balance, forget priorities, and run our credit cards up to stratospheric levels.  It's the human condition.  To battle this, I believe we all need a deep and honest annual review.  And I think it's a good thing for us to talk about our resolutions in public and with those we care about.

So here is my own list of resolutions for 2006.  I've been thinking about many of these for a while.  I hope you will follow my example and publish a list of your own. 

Happy New Year!

Jason's New Year's Resolutions (2006)

1. Write and publish blog posts in a more timely fashion (starting after this one, of course).
2. Stop killing.
3. Write fewer posts involving toilet humor and/or snack cakes.
4. Really, really ease up on the killing!
5. Lose the 15 pounds gained in 1997 (and have been resolving to lose for eight years running).
6. Lose the 10 pounds gained in 1996.
7. Lose the 5 pounds gained since Lay's introduced their Natural Sea Salt Widow Makers.
8. Less taunting of the police dudes who investigate killings.
9. Read at least one book or blog post per week.
10. Spend more time with the kids, less time killing.
11. Give more to charity.
12. Use fewer colons, semi-colons, and conversational connectors like "so." Use short sentences instead.  Like this.  Or even.  This.
13. Consume less man flesh.