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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 31, 2011 - 02:38pm PT
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I've got mine, what are yours?
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Dec 31, 2011 - 02:41pm PT
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"The weak indulge in resolutions, the strong act."
I'm going to quit picking my nose and scratching my ass.
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
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Dec 31, 2011 - 02:44pm PT
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As stated on the other thread...
Buy American (or at least DON'T buy Chinese.) THAT... is my resolution.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Dec 31, 2011 - 02:45pm PT
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^^^
No. I like your's better. I got the water part started already.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 31, 2011 - 02:47pm PT
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Wayno, sometimes a specific date, along with tradition, can create a perfect springboard for change.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Dec 31, 2011 - 02:48pm PT
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I need to get the Victory Garden growing again.
I'm tired of paying a dollar for a wilted Bell Pepper, and $1.50 for a Zuchini that's not even as big as my ... well, not very big.
I'm going out to work on the mulch pile right now.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 31, 2011 - 02:50pm PT
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Nice Chaz.
I'm doubling the size of my garden in the spring.
For me, it's not a resolution, merely a foregone conclusion.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Dec 31, 2011 - 02:58pm PT
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As stated on the other thread...
Buy American (or at least DON'T buy Chinese.) THAT... is my resolution.
Holy Shit!!!! Simon made a quai-political statement!!!! WTF!!!!!
All my new t-shirst are coming from you, bra!
Your junk isn't made in Badgladesh or India, right? My Levi's were made in f*#king Egypt? WTF>
Rock on, Simon!
Oh, my resolution is to smoke less and drink more. Kick ASSSSS$$ss!
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Dec 31, 2011 - 06:53pm PT
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zero political interaction...except a an occasional visual aid.
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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Dec 31, 2011 - 07:27pm PT
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going to make love to a jewish girl
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Conrad
climber
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Dec 31, 2011 - 08:08pm PT
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carbon offset
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Grampa
Trad climber
Orange County
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Dec 31, 2011 - 08:09pm PT
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I resolve to gain weight.
I resolve to drink more.
I resolve to exercise less.
I resolve to climb easier routes.
I resolve to ignore my health.
Lemme see, that should be enough, considering I have never kept a resolution in my life.
I hope my reverse psychology, inverted resolution and totally pessimistic approach to life will work better in 2012!
Happy New Year Everyone!
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 31, 2011 - 08:09pm PT
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Hey Conrad, care to expound upon that?
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Dec 31, 2011 - 08:30pm PT
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not so much a resolution as a fresh mind set:
climb more, climb often, challenge self within reason, get backcountry.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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i committed myself to a year
minus mastrabation.
seven days in
and my wife is threatening to
get rich on the proceeds from
her upcuming book,
"the year that my husband didn't mastrabate"
get your pre copy signed in a shaky hand..
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Jan 12, 2012 - 06:06pm PT
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damn those resolutions!
impossible for those of us
devoid of resolve.
im limp.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 23, 2013 - 11:47am PT
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strawberry-flavored norsk bump
any stupid idiot can list grievances against his or her own life
habits die only when they are ready to die or push comes to shove
my feeble efforts to change things have never amounted to a hill of choss, burned-up pine cones, or anything profound
and one thing i refuse to ever do again, even if i were to resolve to become a different person, is to list the resolves and publish them
i would become a target for other-abuse and not just self-abuse
those habits which affect others lives are the ones we should work out and with whom we should make nice so they might back off and let us lead a truly happy life
but happiness is as happiness does
A Back-of-the-Oatmeal-Box Short Story cum Editorial
Resolutions in the New Year
by Jack Crabby
We all seem to make them. I stopped years back. I am weak. My cravings, my vices, my secret spices of life are too precious a part of me to let go. No stinking calendar is going to rule my life, and I don’t care whose picture is on the thing: pin-up, El Cap, or Alex Honnold. Social conventions are in place and that will have to do. This is one way I can defeat TIME, our common enemy.
It’s bad enough, too, that my whole life is spent slaving for FATHER TIME, who is nothing more than a classical view of the cosmos and probably a slave-driving invention of drug-addled shamans and druids. Time is so irrelevant to a retiree, most of the time. I have trouble with re-setting the clock twice a year as it is, and as I grow older, I have more time-related errors popping into my life. I don’t even have an alarm clock now.
Were I to make a resolution, say, changing my habits, would I actually TRY to change or expect it to simply happen that I not bite my nails any longer, for instance? I doubt it very seriously. As an expert on myself, I KNOW I’m lazy and I ALSO KNOW I’m a forgetter about things like this, which are, let’s face it, habits, things that have invaded and taken root, and they don’t go away easily or with no struggle. Don’t say, “Can you spell d-i-s-i-p-l-i-n-e, Mouse?” I can spell any of you guys and your nerdy sisters under the table. I HAVE little and WANT little. And don’t tell me I NEED it, I had it and gave it up for Lent.
I f I could get out from under this supertopo forum, however, my life might have room to expand and become...something else. But I LIKE it here and I’m STAYING where I am.
I have decided to sell the car. Using gas and abusing others who DON”T KNOW HOW TO DRIVE is wearing out my bank account and my nerves. Besides, I was fine with no car for a long old time. I will be fine again with no wheels and I may actually live longer because I won’t have died in an automobile collision, a truck wreck, on slick wet pavement (that’s a HUGE problem in drought-stricken California right now), or walking along the roadside looking for a better angle. a
BOOM!
Seconds later, in heaven.
“perfect angle! I mean, a perfect ANGEL! Where...how...WTF? Father, is that you?”
“Relax, my son. Are you hungry? My wife, Bakes Heavenly Dog, has gone out to fetch more wood for the fire. We have some freshly-caught trout and some acorn cookies for dessert. But you can rest first. There’s plenty of time. And may I suggest you not bite your nails. It’s not a good habit.”
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10b4me
Ice climber
Bishop/Flagstaff
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Dec 23, 2013 - 11:51am PT
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I am hoping to be a nicer person than I was in 2013.
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