Resolutions and all that jazz
According to the Today programme, the most popular resolution this year is to spend more time with friends. Not losing weight or drinking less or exercising more, which is just as well because if ever there was a resolution guaranteed to cancel out these excellent ideas, friend time is it. My friends anyway.
Not to sound like Thought for the Day, this is a great one, isn’t it? Unless you have no friends, in which case it is like Christmas, defined by one person as the Too Much followed by the Too Long. I concur – thank Heavens it’s over.
The dreary adding up of overspending is now upon us all; my resolution therefore is to spend time with friends cheaply – a sandwich and a coffee instead of a bottle of wine and, what the heck, a pudding too. Doesn’t that have the ring of shortlevity to it?
I plan to exercise if I can lumber to the nearest Zumba class – this sounds like mindless fun, and I fancy shaking something that might shrink as the weeks progress.
Twitter is also my new discovery, as I have already blogged about. Wastes – I mean of course passes constructively – the time a treat but also works well for communication among like minds. I enjoy it, although I have not yet mastered the pithy but amusing amuse bouche style. It will come as I settle in, although I aim to avoid the over chummy ‘wotcha peeps” or the moment by moment cataloguing of my day. Watch this space for my thoughts on finding your own writing voice on Twitter and in general.
Oh, and Happy New Year.
