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[theinevitable]

I tend to find women extremely beautiful when they want to kiss me.

The bus system here sucks too, but there is a relatively direct route to my job from my house.

[littlefallsmets]

That's just my short-hand less-clinical classier way of saying "women I would like to bone".

"Beautiful" just sounds less coarse than "I would like to bone".

Traditional sense of beauty is not what I am talking about at all.

I am told I have an odd sense of what I find beautiful in women, insofar as a lot of the women I am most attracted to would be considered to be freakishly tall and/or slightly heavy and/or have weird noses in comparison to the mainstream American media sense of what is a beautiful lady.

I am mostly saying that I would like to kiss women I would like to bone in the hopes that maybe after a couple of weeks or months of kissing I would then also start boning them.

But you know. That sounds chauvinist and coarse in a manner that I do not actually intend.

[wombat]

I think that sounds less offensive than sounding like you are only interested in beautiful women.

[theinevitable]

This year I am only going to kiss ugly broads with bad attitudes.

[wombat]

that gets 1000 cans as soon as I remember my password to get to the admin page.

[pmcd9]

I only kiss beautiful women because all women are beautiful.

[miles]

It's been a couple years since I've been serious about debt reduction, so that's a major deal this year. I have two credit cards I need to pay off and also need to look at refinancing my auto loan. That's not all of it but would be a huge improvement. Question for you financially responsible adults. I've been lousy about building up an emergency fund but pretty good at saving for retirement (especially considering that I didn't make a single good financial decision until I was 27). I'm going to continue to contribute 10% or so to my 401k (and I have a really good company match on top of that), but should I focus the rest of my "saving" solely on paying down credit cards or should I also work on an emergency fund?

I need to lose weight. So I resolve to eat less but more frequently and more vegetables and stuff. I also need to find a sport I can participate in because I enjoy playing but generally hate exercising.

I resolve to take the train to work at least 3 days a week. This includes walking about a mile to the nearest stop.

[Carlos del Vaca]

should I focus the rest of my "saving" solely on paying down credit cards or should I also work on an emergency fund?

Assuming the credit cards carry interest, I'd pay those down first. You'll reduce the amount you pay in interest over the long term. The amount you would earn in interest on a savings account these days is basically nothing, so building up savings first doesn't really help you.

[doomglobe]

Lose 15 lbs, so as to be able to send the gnar. I already work out in pretty much every spare hour, so it is going to have to be from restraint. I think I could get the full 15 from beer alone, but I don't want to say goodbye to it altogether. I already don't eat sweets, i guess I could cut out red meat to some extent, or possibly pizza and bread and pasta will get me the rest of the way. Maybe I need to work in more cardio and skip a few hours of climbing. I guess I also want to gear up for long approaches, and work on my endurance, so that couldn't hurt.

Work on timing, so as to stop being late everywhere and to everything. I've made this one before, at intervals more frequent than years. This time I am working on it from the angle of expectations. My expectations of what I can accomplish in some amount of time might be higher than is reasonable.

Get a new job, or huge raise. Because I need more money.

Re-evaluate every aspect of my lifestyle and see if I really want it. Toss everything I don't.

[jay-ell]

Re-evaluate every aspect of my lifestyle and see if I really want it. Toss everything I don't.

I am doing this with my physical stuff. It is mentally exhausting.

[theinevitable]

I am really enjoying the process of getting rid of clothes. I have realized I am way more satisfied by having, for instance, one winter coat that I think is really awesome, instead of a bunch of cheap thrifted ones that kind of don't fit. Also, I get compliments on my lumberjack coat every time I wear it. So that feels nice.

My mom's thing about getting rid of crap is "one grocery bag at a time." She has some sort of schedule (one a day? one a week?) and says it is nice because it is such a manageable amount that nonetheless makes a big dent over time.

I have realized that what I really need to get rid of is books and records. Boo to that. I have been looking into grad schools, which makes the "oh god I'll have to move" panic start setting in.

JL-- UNC has one of the top urban planning programs, while also letting in more than half of their applicants. Maybe one day I will show up in your store. In-state tuition is calling my name.

I realized that since I still have my school ID, I can get a free bus pass from one of my friends who is still in school and pretend to be a student. This pushes me over the edge, I am going to start taking the bus to work at least a few days a week. Although maybe this is a cop-out, since I would not be financially supporting the bus system?

[wombat]

I should be doing this sort of thing but since I'm not supposed to lift anything with my broken wrist I've had a legitimate excuse. Check back next week.

[Carlos del Vaca]

I am really enjoying the process of getting rid of clothes. I have realized I am way more satisfied by having, for instance, one winter coat that I think is really awesome, instead of a bunch of cheap thrifted ones that kind of don't fit. Also, I get compliments on my lumberjack coat every time I wear it. So that feels nice.

I did a thing on 1/1/2012 in which I turned all the hangers in my closet backwards. Then, when I wore something, when I hung it back up I put back in the right way. Fast forward to 1/1/2013: Anything still backwards, I haven't worn in a year, and I have to ask myself if I really need it. (I haven't done the actual purging part yet though. Maybe this weekend.)

[jay-ell]

I've heard of this, but it doesn't work for formal wear (which I might not have worn this year but will sorely miss when someone I know gets married) or if you're changing sizes (I plan to lose 20 lbs this year; the stuff I'm wearing now won't even fit by next December, but it'll be on right-way-round hangers anyway).

[dejavroom]

- Find an apartment to rent and finally live alone.
- Start boxing
- Do a full medical exam
- Try to salvage my teeth