New Years Resolutions

Some resolutions for the year:
I will finish my assignments
I will read the books I borrow from the church library
I will run one day trip in where I do not need to majorly restructure the timetable on the run, do not lose or damage any of the borrowed resources, we finish on time and we do not upset anyone from the local parish (particularly the vicar)
I will write a proper budget
I will stick to said budget
Said budget will include a savings plan
I will call home once a week
I will stop getting home after everyone else has gone to bed
I will start playing sport again
I will make use of my diary for more than just recording the things I should have done
I will maintain good relationship with the vicar

These were the resolutions I liked from YouthBlog:
I will put aside time to pray for the young people
I will stop eating all the tuck while setting up for youth cafe
I will build in some professional development this year
Time with God will become a priority and a neccessity
I will invest in relationships with parents and members of the congregation
I will make a point of meeting up with a less experienced youth minister
I will make a point of meeting up with a more experienced youth minister
I will not skateboard in Church when anybody else is around

I had best point out at this point that most of these are made in jest, so that when I fail dismally I do not become depressed. It's also 6:30am, and it's a widely known fact that the only way I see a clock at that time of day is if I had no sleep the nite before, so Im not sure if any of the above resolutions even make sense and, truthfully, there's not much point in checking. I'll have a look in a day or three when my brain decides to function again. Until then...

Welcome to the New Year

Im sitting in the office at one minute to ten, almost half awake, and liking that I am the first to arrive for the first day back at work. (Me being the first to arrive for anything doesn't happen v often so it's something to savour when it does) Conversely there is the possibility that everyone else has decided not to start work again today and no one has bothered to tell me, which would be slightly less good than the present situation.
New Years Eve was awesome, definitely beat last years nite out in London. It was followed up yesterday with breakfast at 12 (huge feast of bacon, eggs, sausages, beans, toast and tea) and a movie, 8 Days a Week, which was reasonably entertaining but ended with the whole point being that our purpose on earth is to exist between the moments of joy when we have sex. Not the deepest message ever.
I now have a week (or part of the week anyway) to recover sufficiently to attempt to equal Danbos (Atari Man) feat of four days without sleep next weekend. Starting Friday I will try to go without sleep until Monday nite (will probably settle for mid-afternoon Monday to be honest) Ian was listing the reasons the idea is idiocy last nite but most of them merely encouraged me!!
The era of the dreads is drawing to a close. I finally set a date to cut them off. Saturday 13th January. This decision was confirmed in its wisdom on New Years Eve when Andy half yanked a dread out of my skull during a wrestling match (I say wrestle, it was more a case of Andy plonking his considerable weight on top of my sleeping form and proceeding to beat the stuffing out of it, my nipples are still sore!!)
Thats all for the first post of the New Year thinks I. Some resolutions may follow in the next couple of days drawing on YouthBlog for inspiration. Until then...

New Years Eve

It's just turned New Years Eve on my clock, last day of the year!! May have to do something to mark the occasion... Went up to Bicester Village to try and get some shoes today, came back drenched and annoyed at the lack of quality in shoes, Im going to Oxford next week instead, I did find an awesome Fat Face outlet tho and got £105 worth of gear for under 40 quid!! (Also picked up a nifty knife/screw driver/pliers/and loads of other things gadget from Tog24 v cheap as well) But no shoes...
Down loaded the photos I took in London the other day. Just spent 20mins trying to upload them to blogger with no joy. Ill try again later... Photos now appear to be working =]

I never really went in for new years resolutions, they seem to be very short term ideals but I like the idea of developing healthy habits and working on personal growth and have been working on something vaguely similar from the book "7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen Covey (who is a man of remarkable genius considering he belongs to the Church of Moron or whatever its called) ANYWAY, what I was leading to had absolutely nothing to do with any of that, but is a cartoon by Leunig which I quite like: