Bonus: how did this past year’s go?

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
    201·
    2 months ago

    Same as every year since 2017: Stand up to racism whenever I see it.

    How’d it go? There’s a lot of racism out there, but I think I did okay.

  • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    I’m going semi-vegan? I don’t know if there’s a word for it.

    I cheated and started a few weeks ago, but from now on I’m not buying any more animal product although I’ll make exceptions for already bought food that would otherwise go to waste.

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
    10·
    2 months ago

    I don’t make resolutions because when I did, I never managed to keep them.

    That said, I do have an unwritten list of things I’d like to do in the new year. Like may be lose a little weight. And I really need to go for my eyes testing.

    And then there’s the whole philosophy of “why next year? why not now?” and “tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life”.

    For the eye test, I’ve no good excuse, but I don’t want to walk to the place and find they’re closed for the holidays. For the weight, I’d have to throw out a lot of food first. Not the greatest excuse there either, but waste not, want not.

    (Can you see why I never managed to keep them previously? Yeeeah.)

  • Harmonious@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 months ago

    Publish my novel and get back to studying Japanese. 私は少し日本語が話せます but I’d like to learn more. I don’t even know if I said that right. But by the end of the year I’d like to be fluent enough to have a conversation.

    • Jumbie@lemmy.zip
      1·
      2 months ago

      Hey man. Same boat, different rower. Can you share your publishing plans? Are you using an agent or self-publishing? Who’s doing your editing?

      Sorry about all the questions!

      • Harmonious@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        Sure, I’m planning in using an agent. I just recently went through a round of editing with the help of some beta readers. Not editors but I’ve combed through it probably 5 times already and had some others look at it so I’m confident it’s good enough for an agent. I’m not worrying about professional editors until the manuscript can get picked up.

  • BozeKnoflook@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 months ago

    Get back to my pre-COVID weight. Thankfully I just moved to a new place with a gym literally across the street.

    • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      2 months ago

      More so than a gym, weight loss happens in the kitchen. Smaller portion sizes and healthier options. A calories deficit is the only way to lose weight. And don’t think of it as a “diet”… It’s a lifestyle change.

      Forty pounds and counting. Good luck!

      • BozeKnoflook@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 months ago

        Yea I know. I went from >400lbs to 195; but then COVID. I swear to god I can do week long fasts and barely lose weight, I really need some kind of sustained cardio exercise on a regular basis. Just give me an elliptical and some time.

  • Spaniard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    This coming year I have so many! In the last few years I lost my parents and pets, last one was my loyal dog.

    • To be reunited with my wife, this stupid visa system has kept us apart 8 months and counting.

    • To start living together and rearrange the house to our liking and needs.

    • To give home to another dog, it’s what him would like.

    • Keep exercising and building the home gym, involve the wife in such tasks.

    • Be more involved at work. I like what I do but these years have taken a toll on me. I try but apathy it’s there.

    • Help the wife adapt to a new country and culture.

    • House reparations.

    • Small wedding celebration here (we married in her country)

    • Planning honeymoon

    • I want to be a better Christian sometimes I have strong feeling about topics I care about and I come out as very aggressive so I want to avoid that.

    • Keep enlightening people about anarchism and to fight, in whatever way possible, against the bully system of States.

    Not on my hands:

    • In the last 7 years I have lost someone every year, family, friends, pets, parents. I want 2026 to be the year of gains and not loses.
  • First_Thunder@lemmy.zip
    4·
    2 months ago

    The same as last year, to do something to surprise myself. This year was a close one, but a few weeks ago I managed to interview a presidential candidate, so not bad (for an engineering student)