New Years Resolutions

I'm not usually one to make resolutions, mainly because the probability of me keeping them is equal to that of winning the lottery without buying a ticket.

This year though, for various reasons I'm determined. I'm going to make some resolutions and am determined to keep them (well, at least some of them)

1) No sweets, chocolate, crisps or biscuits (for at least a month). Now before you all fall off your chair screaming "for the love of god....WHY?!?!" Perhaps I should explain. I'm addicted to sweets and chocolate and by addicted I mean in a Heroin sort of way. Before Christmas I was eating 5 or so KitKats before lunchtime. I've tried to cut down in the past but once I've had one I've got to have more, and then more after that, and another for the drive home and maybe another couple from the petrol station, you get the idea. I've done this in the past for lent, but in the last couple of years even that has failed miserably. I'm doing this for a number of reasons a) I don't want to get diabetes, b) I'll save a fairly substantial amount of money, c) because addictions are bad, d) because I need to prove that I can do it, e) my metabolism seems to be slowing down and my trousers are becoming uncomfortably tight (they're still only 32s though), and f) because it links to another couple of my resolutions.

2) Exercise. I can't remember the last time I did any substantial exercise, and by substantial in fact I mean any at all. My resting heart rate is ridiculously high for someone my age, one of my aims for 2008 is to reduce this to less than 75. I am determined to develop at least some element of fitness. How I'm going to go about this I've not yet decided but watch this space.

3) Work. Perhaps the most important resolution for this year considering finals are rapidly approaching. I've never been a particularly motivated person work wise but I'm going to have to work hard to make sure I get through the week of hell successfully. I intend to plan out some sort of revision timetable and stick to it. Bribery is my best motivation and I've already convinced myself of the following equation.

work = passing exams = Dr Little Medic AND games console (yeah baby) , etc etc.

I'm determined not to waste quite as much time as I do at the moment and I will try my hardest to do some relevant work/revision most days. Missbliss has already been very good about helping and motivating me, now if only I could persuade her to bake me more cakes when i've met my targets (cake of course being exempt from resolution number 1, come on, you gotta give me something)fr

4) Keep my car clean and tidy. "pfft, that's an easy one" I hear you cry. Well you'd think so but usually my car is a tip. Missbliss bought me new mats for Christmas and also offered to clean the inside (which was well overdue....., by a couple of years or so) Missbliss is ideal for this sort of thing, in the same way that in Schindler's List, Schindler saves the children for their small fingers to clean the inside of shells, missbliss is small enough to poke around with a Dyson in a fiesta. Before she began I removed several thousand tonnes of old sweet wrappers. (another reason to give up sweets).

5) Enjoy PBL - those of you that read my predictions for 2008, in particular number 1 will realise why this is here. There is absolutely no way on earth I could keep this one, not even for all the cakes in a French Patisserie. I suspeect this will be broken by 3pm on the 3rd Jan. Hey, nobody is perfect, 4 out of 5 wouldn't be bad.

In effect, these resolutions equate to a normal healthy lifestyle. Hopefully they will. I'm confident they will, no, really they will. Honestly. I think. Maybe. Oh shitters.

Predictions for 2008

I hope you all had a very merry Christmas. 2007 is almost over, and as ever, it has gone remarkably quickly. 2007 was a pretty exciting year for me and missbliss, lets hope 2008 is better than ever. I'm now going to make a few predictions for the months ahead. Maybe in a years time, if I'm still blogging I'll look back and see how I did.

1) I will keep all but one of my new years resolutions. (Coming to a blogpost near you later this week)

2) Facebook will see a significant downturn in use as people get bored of it. I think this has started to happen already, it certainly has for me. Facebook won't just vanish off the face of the web but its growth and use will slow. It may well be bought by Google or Microsoft towards the end of 2008

3) The Americans will bottle the opportunity to elect a female or black President, instead opting for the 'safe' option of a white male.

4) 16GB USB memory sticks will be available under £20 by Christmas (currently you can get 4GB memory sticks for under £20). There will be at least one government scandal involving the loss of said USB memory sticks with personal data on.

5) Despite widespread predictions of a house price crash, on average, house prices will continue to rise throughout most of the UK. The rate will be below previous years at around 3-4%. UK Interest rates will dip slightly before rising again.

6) Either Britney Spears (probably whilst pregnant) or Amy Winehouse will suffer a fatal overdose.

7) Portugal will win Euro 2008, The UK will fail dismally in the 08 Olympics, Lewis Hamilton will win 08 F1 championship. Man Utd will win the premiership but Chelsea will beat them in the final of the Champions League.

8) Petrol will hit 110p a litre.

9) I will purchase either an XBox 360, Playstation 3 or Nintendo Wii. Perhaps in celebration of number 10, celebratory kittens may also be in order.

10) I might, just might,actually become a doctor!

So there you have it guys, that's what I think will happen in 2008 (some of them are perhaps a bit bold). Lets hear your predictions for 2008, either here in comments or in your own prediction posts.