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NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS 2009 END OF YEAR RESULTS

January 1st, 2010 Posted in Personal Events

So 2009 is over.  Finished.  Gone.  Can’t get it back.  This time last year I vowed to change the way I live a little, doing more things with my life and leading a better life for it, theoretically.

I was supposed to update you every month to let you know how it was going, but at that I failed.  And, as you’re about to find out, updating this website wasn’t the only thing I failed at, but I pledge that everything I failed at, I will add on to my objectives/resolutions for 2010.
 
Without further ado, here are the results…
 
- update this website at least 50 times
: FAILED – 2009 total: 17
 
- read at least 12 books
: ACHIEVED! – 2009 total: 24
[John Niven - Kill Your Friends: 7/10]
[Tess Gerritsen - The Surgeon: 7/10]
[Tess Gerritsen - The Apprentice: 5/10]
[Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory: 7/10]
[Michael Byrnes - The Sacred Bones: 8/10]
[Harlan Coben - The Final Detail: 8/10]
[Jonathan Kellerman - Gone: 6/10]
[Jeffrey Deaver - Shallow Graves: 8/10]
[Christopher Pike - Die Softly: 7/10]
[Paul Jager - First-Time Buyer, First-Time Seller: 8/10]
[Melanie Bien - Buying & Selling A Home For Dummies: 8/10]
[Seth Godin - Permission Marketing: 9/10]
[Bill Nussey - The Quiet Revolution In Email Marketing: 8/10]
[Dave Chaffey - Total Email Marketing: 8/10]
[Harlan Coben - Deal Breaker: 7/10]
[Jeff Abbott - Run: 8/10]
[Simon Beckett - Written In Bone: 9/10]
[Stephen King - Cujo: 8/10]
[Sheila Quigley - Run For Home: 5/10]
[Sam Bourne - The Final Reckoning: 8/10]
[Jeffrey Deaver - Manhattan Is My Beat: 7/10]
[Nora Roberts - Glory In Death: 8/10]
[Jeffrey Deaver - The Sleeping Doll: 7/10]
[Jeff Abbott - Fear: 7/10]

- work out and type up at least 15 guitar tabs
: FAILED – 2009 total: 9
[U2 - One]
[Take That - Back For Good]
[Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb]
[Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here]
[Status Quo - Rock 'Til You Drop]
[Sam Cooke - Bring It On Home To Me]
[Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire]
[Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody]
[Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah]

- buy a new computer: FAILED
- exercise at least twice a week: FAILED
- sell a t-shirt: FAILED
- give up BUYING crisps: ACHIEVED!
- have a holiday abroad: ACHIEVED!
- go to the Science Museum: FAILED
- go to the Natural History Museum: FAILED
- go to the Tower of London: FAILED
- go to Madame Tussauds: FAILED
- go to the Sherlock Holmes Museum: FAILED
- organise a university reunion: FAILED
- work-related objective: ACHIEVED!

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