O Mundo de Claudia

New Year Resolutions

I always make a few new year resolutions that I obviously don't keep. So why should I bother to do it this year? Well, this article has some good tips and so this year I'm going to try a different approach :-). By posting my resolutions here, instead of keeping them to myself, I know that a few friends will remind me of them throughout the year (especially if I don't keep them :-)). Instead of listing everything I always wanted to change or do, I'll only aim for realistic and different-from-last-year resolutions. So, here goes:

* Read the Odissey, by Homer;
* Plan for more adventurous and different holidays;
* Finally use all the face and body lotions that costed me a lot of money and are stored at the back of the bathroom cupboard (this is a difficult one ;-)
* Get rid of some prejudices (silly ones like avoiding buying books from new portuguese authors and proven completely wrong after reading the novels by Frederico Lourenço this Christmas);
* Control my cholesterol levels and be careful with what I eat: the last time I tested was 220 mg; please note that this resolution is only about controlling the levels and not about doing more exercise which would be totally unrealistic :-);
* Do some charity work if I have the time ;-)
* Study semiotics;
* Be brave, go to a shooting range and defy my inner fears ;-)
* Start learning a new language;
* Pay more attention to the portuguese current events (I gave up after pedophily, corruption, nepotism, mediocre political commentators (90% are politicians themselves), mediocre government, mediocre opposition and portuguese tradition to "criticize everything and don't give any solutions" wouldn't leave my TV set (sensationalist press) at prime time);
* And according to the quiz, I should break stuff :-D

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