1. Be nice to the fat cat. Not the one pictured above, who is a dude, but the other one, who hangs around my house like a lovesick adolescent. The cat who whines all night long. The same one who runs into empty car sheds and yowls neurotically. I will try not to tell her to fuck off. It's going to be hard.
2. Be patient in traffic jams. I grumble and swear, when the traffic stops moving and I realized this year that if I was stuck in a car with me and my patience of a two-year-old, I would throw me out of the car and lock the door. This is going to be hard too, because I enjoy hurling abuse from behind the windscreen (as long as the windows are rolled up) and consider myself quite fluent at it. It would be a waste of talent if I gave it up altogether. I'll still do it if I'm driving alone.
3. When I write down a phone number, I will also write down whose it is. My life is full of numbers on scraps of paper. Whose are they? Haven't a clue. I drive myself crazy
4. Next time I am out shopping, I wont let advertisers treat me as if I were Pavlov's Dog - remember the dog that was trained to salivate automatically every time a bell rang. There is a whole industry out there trying to make me buy stuff on impulse. I hereby pledge to be the true "Decider".
5. Stop interrupting people. I don't enjoy it when people do it to me and when I realize I've done it to someone else, I want to crawl in to a hole in shame. It's awful. So that I promise not to do that any more.
6. I resolve to quit drinking … coffee. Doesn't quite taste the same after beer.
7. I am drawn to the idea of making a product that I can sell. There is no reason for it. I could make perfectly fine living working at this company with awesome people, or try to do freelance work on contract. I am finding, though, that being a creator of things people can actually hold is enormously pleasing. It's feels like something primal, but it's possible that this is merely curiosity.
8. Make a "you-comment-i-reply" policy. From now on, I'll try to reply each and every comment given for my post. I got this idea when I ended up going back to the post I've commented to see whether it has been replied back or not.That means that "me" or in other words 'a reader' loved to be replied.Blogger has made this task easier by allowing my comments to be emailed.
I reckon I'll last a week at the most. This is why I never make resolutions.
3 comments:
I think you should add more... not harass people when they are asleep.
and where did you get the name fat cat from :P
Out of respect for Point #8
There are some things in life that money cant buy. For every thing else there is fat cat.
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