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Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: fundj&e on January 02, 2012, 11:51:23 pm
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These are mine ;D
1. Cut back on smoking
2. Cut back on drinking
3. Cut back on cooking
4. Cut back on computer time
5. Cut back on nap time
6. Increase exercise from 0 to 3 days a week
7. Increase daily intake of fruit from 0 to 1
8. Increase cleaning of the house time, to 2 hours a day
9. Increase outings with friends during the weekdays
Number 10. Organize for the last Sunday of every month to have dinner at my place with my brother and sisters
what are yours? ;D
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Goodness, Uni you have a long list... :o
Havent even gone there yet..... M mmmmm.....will have to fet back to you
H ;D
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You are gong to have a super clean house Uni!
Mine is to declutter the house over the year the Flylady way :) there are some things I do really well but the decluttering isn't a constant so I need to work on that.
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Cripes - I haven't even thought about New Year's Resolutions yet. Just trying to keep healthy and awake would be a good start, the next four months are going to be hectic, the following four months will have me playing "catch up" on the first four months, then, everything going well, we'll have a very quick excursion to Italy (probably spend more time travelling than being there!), then back to play 'catch up' again then SIL coming over for Xmas and New Year - perhaps I should be planning 2013's New Year's Resolutions now!
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I don't make New Year resolutions. It may be a cop out I don't know. I never kept them anyway. I just try through out the year with a goal every now and then and keep it simple. eg Do the ironing when it is as tall as Mr Everest. :D :D :D
Sometimes theynmay be a little more ambitious. I'm a list maker. I tend to make lists all the time. Probably a hang over from teaching.
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I don't really make New Years Resolutions either, but if I did it would be to learn how to slice bread :)
I'm making some quite nice bread now thanks to Thermie and this forum, but then completely hack it to death when trying to slice it (my OH is even worse :))
I grew up in a household with pre-sliced (probably supermarket) bread. Whilst Mum certainly taught me how to cook, slicing bread wasn't something I learnt :(
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i use an electric knife does a great job ;D
looking to buy one of these http://www.amazon.co.uk/Victorinox-Carving-Knife-Wavy-Guide/dp/B000IAZC1Y
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I use an electric knife too.
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Great thank you - now i know what my next purchase will be...an electric knife!!
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Not a great one for NY resolutions but I think I will make one now - take more holidays! Back to work on Thursday and not looking forward to it, especially since kids don't go back to school until Feb and I can't get any more time off in Jan >:(
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Uni, love your list, think I might add, Limit buying cooking books to ?????? for the year. Even bought 2 while in Tassie. ;D ;D
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I haven't given much thought to any New Year's resolutions this year.
I'll probably just keep doing what I'm doing. I've always got loads on my plate, so maybe I'll learn to say 'No' a bit more.
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I always make New Years Resolutions. I write them down and recommit to the past years.
This year is:
* Keep an orderly handbag
* No more magazines - reread the years of ones I have ( it should be fine - with my Alzheimer's playing up it will be like reading new ones anyway)
* Cook 1 new recipe every week (easy with the forum)
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Love you list Uni, I haven't made on this year, never keep to them, a friend is giving up chocolate silly girl.
I do want to get fitter and get some of this weight off, less computer time might help.
My plan while I am on holidays is to de clutter my craft room, and either give or sell stuff that's not being used. Like all my stamps and scrap booking stuff, from when I was a consultant.
I use a electric knife for cutting bread too, with out they are door stops, my mother didn't teach me how to cut bread either Katie.lol
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Great thank you - now i know what my next purchase will be...an electric knife!!
Katie what sort of knife do you use? I have a width of trident bread knife. I find if the bread is completely cooled it is much easier to slice. Practice helps improve the cutting efficiency.
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I love your list too Uni - you are such a character and you wouldn't be you if you gave up half those things. I don't make a list probably because I don't have time to even think about it but this thread has made me give it some thought. Why save money at my age - you can't take it with you. Lose some weight, yeah probably a few kg but I figure who looks at me anyway. Have more friends to meals this year - certainly will if DH stays well. Give up drinking - never, it isn't a problem so why give it up. I just wish there were more hours in the day to do more of the things I would like to do.
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Katie what sort of knife do you use? I have a width of trident bread knife. I find if the bread is completely cooled it is much easier to slice. Practice helps improve the cutting efficiency.
Meagan I have a Global bread knife - so I don't think I can blame my tools! 9 out of 10 times I let the bread cool completely before I slice it, but it doesn't seem to help, I'm just hopeless at it! I almost have to apologise to the bread before I start ;D
I was thinking at Xmas whilst my OH was (badly) carving the turkey we should get an electric knife. I have my eye on the Cuisinart Electric Knife, which comes with two blades - one for bread and one for meat.
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My New Years resolution is to give up New Years resolutions! :P
I'm terrible at them... really I am.
I want to blog more not sure if that counts. :-))
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:) We always write our goals down for the year, so we have the whole year as a couple to complete the list.
Robyn
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i have been good today lunch was 1 apple 1 orange and a pear and for dinner :-)) 2 peaches in wine ,does that count
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I'd certainly allow it Uni ;D
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ha ha fundj, you must be into dessert wines :D
DD23 is on a new diet. She made me a pomegranate/raspberry smoothie for breakfast at 7:30am. By 9am my stomach was empty and I nearly felt sick with hunger. When I get hungry I just crave carbs, and I can't stand eating fruit when I'm starving for carbs. Being on a diet eating rabbit food is very unsatisfying and I can't keep it up. (She's currently steaming broccoli atm for a salad for tea :-X)
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Whose on the diet CP, just DD or both of you?
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Uni, you need to talk to me.... You are too cheeky....
H :)
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I'd certainly allow it Uni ;D
i knew i could count on u JD THANKS :-*
CP i only like red wine like this, i am a white wine lady.
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hally when did u come online, i was trying to hide from you :-))
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Uni, you certainly cant count on me. Off to boot camp we go. ;D ;D ;D
H :)
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I AM SOOO HERE :D
H :)
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my DD goes to boot camp, i tell she is sick in the head ;D
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6am start, thats too early for me.
Uni, I will let yousleep in until 7, nice arnt I.
H :)
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i wish i could sleep in until 7 or 6 hally.
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Oh you would after a day with me :D
H :)
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you are not to comment on this threaD any more HALLY
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IS THAT RIGHT
H :) ;D :D :)
And if I knew how I woukd double bold it!!!LOL
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;D you do make me lol hally :-*
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Haha you girls make me laugh :D
M'y new years résolutions are (drum roll please) hihi
Join à gym to lose weight and tone up mainly because my back and knees are stuffed (already started unlike Uni :P)
Be more organised
Finish interieur decorating, painting etc
Get back into my blog
Some self control with cookbook addiction and cooking purchases lol (im kidding myself with That one)
Organise family time better
And i think That Will do haha!!
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Hello, now that we are 6 months into the year, how is everyone going with their New Years Resolutions?
For me am still buyimg cookbooks and magazines.
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1. Cut back on smoking tick
2. Cut back on drinking tick
3. Cut back on cooking tick
4. Cut back on computer time :-))
5. Cut back on nap time tick
6. Increase exercise from 0 to 3 days a week tick
7. Increase daily intake of fruit from 0 to 1 tick
8. Increase cleaning of the house time, to 2 hours a day :-))
9. Increase outings with friends during the weekdays no
Number 10. Organize for the last Sunday of every month to have dinner at my place with my brother and sisters
this one is hard but i have been out with my sisters ;D
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You've done well Uni.
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Well done fundj, that's pretty impressive :)