Resolutely forward

[pensnest]

Thank you to sperrywink and musiequedevie for the cards, which the postman brought to me post Christmas Day but still well within the official Twelve Days. :-)

My New Year Resolutions:

1. Don't buy myself chocolate. I've kept this one for two years in a row now. I'm still tempted, but I can say to myself, "I don't do that any more" and be right. If anyone out there is marvelling that it is even possible, do note that I have not said (and never will say) Don't Eat Chocolate. If someone else gives me chocolate, it's entirely within my rules for me to eat it.

2. Eat better: by which I don't mean dieting, I mean, quality. I want to try to buy more of our meat from the local butcher, who sells actual free-range pork instead of the cunningly-packaged 'outdoor bred' stuff at the supermarket, which I suspect means 'and then brought inside to live in a box'. I want to try to buy more vegetables from the local markets, possibly have a go at getting some organic veg delivered by the milkman, and so forth. The pleasure of being able to eat fresh, entirely organic vegetables I had grown myself was considerable, so this year I think there will have to be lettuce as well, and whatever else I can think of that doesn't require too much actual effort. Anyway. Better, tastier, more ethical food.

3. Do more recs. I keep thinking vaguely about filling a fancake prompt with something from the wonderful world of popslash, and hardly ever have. Time to do better.

4. Podfics - I enjoy these, and should at the very least finish the two part-recorded stories I have on my desktop.


I think that's enough.

Comments

[sperrywink]

Considering I didn't mail my cards until the 27th, it would have been a miracle if you got it before Christmas. *g*

Luckily, those were speedy postmen!

Good luck eating better. Once I discovered the farmer's market in Ambler (pretty late in the season, unfortunately), I was hooked.

[pensnest]

Ah, speedy postmen indeed! Good.

I think it'll be quite interesting changing the way I shop. Not sure how it's going to work out, exactly, but it's worth a try. It would be nice to eat more seasonally, too - it seems a shame to be able (if I want) to eat strawberries at Christmas, and courgettes at any time.

[rikes]

Did a version of #2 last year by looking up a ton of new recipes in January and then trying them out every week. I've only made a few of them more than once though, so I think I need to make a new list for this year. Also need to come up with new packed lunch ideas! Would love to go out for lunch sometimes, but there's nothing close enough.