1) Finish all the books I started last year and didn't finish because I got distracted. For every Pratchett I read, I will read one of the classics or one non‐fiction book.
2) Quit smoking. And keep quitting every day, if it comes to that. Ditch the aerated drinks.
3) Return calls within the day. Keep phone conversations short. Twenty minutes will be my upper limit after which the mother will call me for lunch/I will be walking doglet in an area that does not have network/ the wraith‐like Anglo Indian I've hired especially for these occasions will vulgarly keep calling me till I hang up with you.
4) Gently exhort every clean shaven man I come across to consider facial hair. Unless it is Jon Hamm, in which case I'll be gently exhorting him to consider things of, one might even say, a hairy nature.
5) Comb my hair every day.
6) Write something entirely unrelated to work at least thrice a week. Even if it just means describing in tedious and enraged detail how the bathroom renovations we undertook TWO months ago have been jinxed in every way because we tried to save money and ended up with a contractor who should be handed over sole custody of the word 'moron'.
7) This is the year of Meaning and I will not piss it away to be instead, Well Meaning.
8) Don't be mad if people I like don't like me ‐ I can understand if petulant, cranky, and selfish is not your type. People who like me, I needn't like (What a load off when I finally realised this was an option).
9) Talk to the mother daily. With no distractions. Offer to help her around the house.
10) Stop saying 'I mean' every other sentence. I've played back some of my interviews with people and God, I sound like an idiot.
11) Get a little bit of the bitchery back. This nice girl thing is boring for everybody.
12) STOP BUYING LIP BALM, what I have will last me until menopause. Besides 'oh but look at all the pretty colours!' will not hold up under my CA's withering stares.
That's about all the character building I can assimilate for now. I will chart my progress here and hopefully I'll have to stop soon because consecutive self‐congratulatory posts saying 'I did it, I did it' tend to lose shine very quickly.
3 comments:
I particularly liked numbers 8 and 11. And I applaud the efforts. I'll just go eat some more now. Yes, I should really make a list myself, but look at all the cake!
You do not make enough money to afford a CA. You will, someday.
Hear, hear! But why comb those curls? Messy beadheads are in. I should know :)
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