{"id":23471,"date":"2013-12-31T18:13:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T01:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=23471"},"modified":"2015-03-19T16:54:55","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T23:54:55","slug":"resolution-update-for-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/31\/resolution-update-for-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolution update for 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh my…<\/p>\n

Esssh…<\/p>\n

This wasn’t a good year, was it? I mean, the very fact that my last resolution update was in February<\/a> really speaks volumes.\u00a0Honestly, I don’t know what happened. \u00a0“Wait!”<\/em><\/span>, I hear you cry, “Nobody ever keeps their resolutions!”<\/em><\/span>\u00a0Well, I do…well, normally I do. I’ll typically make about ten resolutions and I’ll usually keep 70% of them and at least make some headway on the others.<\/p>\n

Okay, let’s get this over with…<\/p>\n

\"Failure\"<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Resolution #<\/strong>1. Go dancing at least once a week (F)<\/strong><\/span>
\nCompletely failed. I’ve gone out a handful of times and taught a few lessons, but that’s about it.<\/p>\n

Resolution #<\/strong>2. Check bank statements once a week (F)<\/strong><\/span>
\nNot even close.<\/p>\n

Resolution #<\/strong>3. Complete Reading List (C)<\/strong><\/span>
\nI was doing well during the first half of the year, but didn’t finish anything new following my July update<\/a>, leaving five books from the list unread.<\/p>\n

Resolution #<\/strong>4. Give up Facebook for Lent (A)<\/strong><\/span>
\nFinally! A success! I also ended up giving up Facebook for the Philip’s Fast (Advent), but that wasn’t a hardship at all – I really needed a break.<\/p>\n

Resolution #<\/strong>5. Guard free time more jealously (B-)<\/strong><\/span>
\nHmm…this is a tough one. The later half of this year has been…weird. I haven’t overextended myself, but I still don’t recall lots of peaceful times this year. I think I did something wrong.<\/p>\n

Resolution #6. Invest more time in friendships (D)<\/strong><\/span>
\nPretty terrible.<\/p>\n

Resolution #<\/strong>7. Blacklist TV Shows (C+)<\/strong><\/span>
\nAlthough I didn’t watch the shows I said I was going to boycott, I managed to replace them with, albeit less offensive, mindless pap.<\/p>\n

Resolution #<\/strong>8. Run a half marathon and do a 15 minute plank (B+)<\/strong><\/span>
\nI never completed the 15 minute plank (11 minutes was my best), although I did do the half marathon in 1:46:08<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

\"Half<\/a><\/p>\n

Since I moved I’ve done very little exercise. I started running again earlier this week…ouch.<\/p>\n

Resolution #<\/strong>9. Cook a proper meal once a week (E)<\/strong><\/span>
\nFail.<\/p>\n

Resolution #<\/strong>10. Write the book (F)<\/strong><\/span>
\nI’ve spent some time on it but…yeah, fail.<\/p>\n

So, what do we learn from this? Well, I’m still going to have some resolutions for 2014, but they are going to be far more focused. I’ll post those tomorrow…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh my… Esssh… This wasn’t a good year, was it? I mean, the very fact that my last resolution update was in February really speaks volumes.\u00a0Honestly, I don’t know what happened. \u00a0“Wait!”, I hear you cry, “Nobody ever keeps their resolutions!”\u00a0Well, I do…well, normally I do. I’ll typically make about ten resolutions and I’ll usually keep 70% of them and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2969,1662,870],"class_list":["post-23471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","tag-featured","tag-new-year-resolutions","tag-resolutions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23471"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56770,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23471\/revisions\/56770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}