Right. After much deep thought I have finalised my list of New Year’s Resolutions. Here they do am.
- Get learner’s and restricted licence
- Spend one solid hour a day (Monday to Friday) doing housework and/or food preparation. Counting up the random minutes of domesticity during the day and hoping they came to an hour does not count.
- Have nine articles accepted for print
- Get singing group ready and worthy to busk by November
- Write one hour’s worth of fiction a week
- Learn to make ferments a la Traditional Foods
- Increase my Suite101 income from *ahem* dollars a month to *cough* dollars a month by December
Now I need to figure out some kind of spreadsheet dealio to put on the fridge and tick things offa, because we all know ticking things off is the essence of success. (Or crossing things out, if you swing that way.)
I also need to hunt up my old road codes. I’ve been taking this test several times a day with increasing levels of success, but I’m still a bit fuzzy about the colour-coding of cats’-eyes and tbe exact applications of the Give Way rule. Once I figure out the soonest time I can go in to take the test, I’ll make a plan of study. (Does anyone know? Do you have to book, or can you just show up?)
Last night we had a successful if sparsely attended braai in order to celebrate the New Year. We drank peach-flavoured grape juice (forbidden under Levitical law, but extremely nommy), watched Zombieland and got sat on by the snortlepig.