DOABLE NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS FOR 2006:

[camwyn]

1. I will not attempt to become Prime Minister of Canada.
2. I will not deliberately suntan. Nor will I commit photosynthesis.
3. I will not attempt to lift motor vehicles with more than two wheels my house. Yeesh, people.
4. I will check the contents of my pockets before eating any food I may have stashed in there, so as to avoid finding out whether or not I can still digest metal.
5. I will not use licking as a substitute for forensic analysis.
6. I will learn to put down that which I call up.
7. I will not put any more holes in my body.
8. I will not eat all of anything larger than my head.
9. I will not build a man-portable nuclear accelerator. (Simulacra thereof are okay.)
10. I will not engage in 'reality TV'.

Comments

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

Those are very good Resolutions!

[camwyn]

I firmly believe in keeping these things doable. Although I'm a bit ill at ease about #3, since sooner or later someone's going to slap small-engine technology on a toy of my nephew's, I'm sure.

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

Ah, well, you can always specifiy a codicil to it about smaller than a certain percent of your body weight?

[ouatic-7.livejournal.com]

I don't know. That licking thing seemd to work fine for Fraser and #7 seems like making bad magic.

[camwyn]

That's the point- it worked for him. I don't have a deaf wolf, I've got two half-clawed eunuch cats, and nobody's murdered my father. (If they did I'd wind up working for the phone company, since Bell Telephone Internal Security is as close as he ever got to law enforcement work.)

#7 is a reference to the fact that every so often I consider getting an extra ear pierce, and then remember that I'm not even happy about the ones I've got.

[ouatic-7.livejournal.com]

By bad magic I was thinking, in my grim way, of holes required for surgery and the like.

[camwyn]

Ah, but I'm not putting those holes in. The surgeon is.

[camwyn]

bah. Citizenship takes longer than a year to achieve, doesn't it?

[camwyn]

Ordinarily I would say yes, but let's go back to the part where you make the mistake of considering me sane. I'm only sane by comparison.

[sundre.livejournal.com]

Still, comparitively sane is better than entirely bats.

[jjloa.livejournal.com]

I was thinking exactly the same thing.

Finally a choice I could have lived with *L* which currently, I do not have.

[lienne.livejournal.com]

Nice resolutions.

I may steal some of them. Not 8, though. I pride myself on my ability to consume an entire cake over the course of three days, and there's no time limit on that resolution.

Oh, and I applaud the use of the phrase "simulacra thereof". *grin*

[camwyn]

*bows modestly* I do my best. Frumpy the Clown is great inspiration for these things.

And I don't actually own any pans that would allow me to bake a cake larger than my head, so.

[lienne.livejournal.com]

Well, the cake I'm currently working on (into the second day and already half through, though I did have help) is probably a bit more than head-sized by volume, although it isn't actually tall enough to fit the traditional definition of "bigger than one's head".

I might consider making my New Year's Resolution to be "bake a cake that really is quite plainly larger than my head... and don't eat more than a quarter of it". *grin*

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

1. I will not attempt to become Prime Minister of Canada.

Why not? I'd vote for you, if I could...

Have you heard of the book "Efficient Society : Why Canada is as Close to Utopia as It Gets"
by Joseph Heath? It sounds like it's your kind of book.

[camwyn]

Mostly because I'm an American citizen and I'm pretty sure they get ticky if someone who's not a citizen makes an attempt at the position. If I can get a work visa for up there and land a paying job to cover campaign costs until I get elected it'll be another story, but I really kind of doubt that I'll be legally permitted to make an attempt for the position before the end of 2006.

I know I won't attempt to become President of the United States, because I'm not 35 yet.

Haven't heard of that book. Might give it a shot next time I'm on Amazon, though.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

I realized after reading your reply that I forgot the :-) at the end of my first comment. Oops.

I might run for President in 2008. :-)

[mephron]

It's not worth it.

I suggest briskly walking for President.

[lienne.livejournal.com]

Briskly? Whatever for?

[mephron]

You might be right.

Considering the current desk-mole in the Oval Office, you could slouch for president and get a decent chunk of the vote.

[camwyn]

Preferably, in the direction of the old Steel Belt cities in Pennsylvania...

[mephron]

*snork* Nicely done.

[camwyn]

*bows modestly*

[mephron]

And the poem entire is more and more apropos as each day goes by.

[milkshake-b.livejournal.com]

I worry about the technicalities of #3--do power wheels count? helping someone with a car jack?

Re: Number 1

[whobunkyboo.livejournal.com]

I am seriously considering it for myself, as G says I have an excellent grasp of governmental (notice how that word MENTAL slides into government so nicely) economics. (Also known as "I can't be broke: I still have cheques left" and "No, I didn't waste all our money; I bought things we needed, and will later replace that money with NEW money, which will arrive some time in the future*".)

*AKA: Chretien's response to the Gomery Report.

Re: Number 1

[camwyn]

Go for it. As long sa whoever becomes prime minister handles the country well, I don't mind. I just don't want y'all to run yourselves into the ground before I become Emperor.

Re: Number 1

[whobunkyboo.livejournal.com]

Oh.





Never mind then.
(This userpic ought to get me a lot of votes, though, don't you think? Let's see Jack Layton, Paul M. or Stephen (gag) Harper pull THIS look off!

Re: Number 1

[camwyn]

*points mutely at her own icon in response*

Re: Number 1

[whobunkyboo.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I admit, Harper in a black bra and pink crushed velvet saying "On your knees Plow Boy!" is somewhat nausea inducing....







But if anyone wants to PS one for me, I'll use it.