As usual every new year I make an abundance of resolutions that I cant possibly keep and what inevitably happens is they drop off one by one. This year I've made a more condensed list and I plan on sticking to them. In actual fact resolution number one is to stick to things I start until they are completed. I'm notorius for getting really into something and then quitting, not necessarily when it gets hard but often when it starts to bore me.
I'll list the resolutions here from one to five and hope that I can stick to them for the entirety of 2012, or at least until the World Ends, this is the year the Mayans said it would all come to a halt isn't it? Well to update people, or the one person who reads here. I currently have two kids and a wife and they are my entire world I'm building a life based around them. Something I would have never thought possible a couple of years back as I was entirely too selfish.
So the bucket list for 2012:
1. To finish things that I start to their end
2. To get back in shape to play Gaelic football at a highly competitive level, aim is to be in the top team in my new club by June.
3. To get out of financial debt.
4. To help my wife out more with the kids and housework
5. To have an alcohol free life.
The last one to me seems the most daunting, I am Irish after all and its in our nature to drink. I do love a tipple or two, but the problem I have is once I start I get it very difficult to stop. It makes me act out of character and stupidly on occasion and the most recent revelation is that I've become more and more aggressive with Alcohol intake. So I am cutting it out. I know I will be better off for it on a health side and family side but it still sticks me as something that will be difficult to do.
On a side note, I recently learned of the passing away of an Uncle. It appears as if he had a heart attack on New Years eve/day and was discovered on New Years morning. Its a dreadful sad event when losing someone you care for deeply the man was a blood relative a brother of my father and I have to say I didnt really know him. I have spent some time with him and have fond memories of a couple of occasions but I didnt really know him. As a family unit I would say my family are all very close, its a typical Irish country family. But I wonder as to how much any of us actually know each other or the life we live. I'm going to spend more time getting to know what makes my family tick from Father and Mother right down to my third cousins. Irish people like small talk but are not big on emotion or "real" conversations. They scare everyone I guess, revealing what you really want or fear is a very difficult thing. I'm going to be more open to it!
Until later people/readers and potential readers!
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