I want to do a painting a month, every month and not give any away. Then in Dec or maybe Jan of '09, I want to do my first art gallery show.

my goal is to finish writing my textbook. Woooo!

People out there in our nation that don't have maps, and I believe that our education, like such as in South Africa and the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should.

So I'd like to get people maps.

Two chicks at once dude.

I want to drink enough booze to put me in a coma

I want to drink a beer in at least 25 states and hopefully at least one other country. That and kill me a bear.

To get laid.

As petty and juvenile as that sounds, I did not get laid once through all of 2007. So it is a real goal.

I'm going to cut back the boose and spend that saved money on savings bonds. I drink alot so I can turn this into a small fortune.

Getting my youngest into primary school and not doing something stupid like dying. I have simple goals.

I'd like to find an agent to help me publish my book.

But since I've tried for 2 years to do that, I don't see why 2008 would be any different :(

everything expected of me, and a bit more...

that and watch brysky drink himself into a comma ... ,

The same thing I want to accomplish every year... to take over the world!

/nah. I want to get a spiffy internship at a biotech company, actually.

My only goal is not to get fired from my kick ass new job. I guess tied into that is becoming completely independent from my parents.

Be courteous, kind and forgiving,
Be gentle and peaceful each day,
Be warm and human and grateful,
And have a good thing to say.

Be thoughtful and trustful and childlike,
Be witty and happy and wise,
Be honest and love all your neighbors,
Be obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant.

Be pompous, obese, and eat cactus,
Be dull, and boring, and omnipresent,
Criticize things you don't know about,
Be oblong and have your knees removed.

Be tasteless, rude, and offensive,
Live in a swamp and be three dimensional,
Put a live chicken in your underwear,
Get all excited and go to a yawning festival.

O.K. everybody!

Be courteous, kind and forgiving,
Be gentle and peaceful each day,
Be warm and human and grateful,
And have a good thing to say.

Be thoughtful and trustful and childlike,
(O.K. everybody on this!)
Be witty and happy and wise,
Be honest and love all your neighbors,
Be obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant.
(Let 'em hear you outside!)

Be pompous, obese, and eat cactus,
(Everybody sing!)
Be dull, and boring, and omnipresent,
Criticize things you don't know about,
Be oblong and have your knees removed.

(Ladies only)
Be tasteless, rude, and offensive,
(Now the men)
Live in a swamp and be three dimensional,
(Everybody)
Put a live chicken in your underwear,
Go into a closet and suck eggs

buntz: I'd like to find an agent to help me publish my book.

May I recommend an editor?

Get ranked as a "C" player in racquetball.

Finish the documentary. Renovate my house. Spend the summer at my cottage in Bruce Mines living off grant money. Teach my dog to not get up on the dinner table. Win the NLL media award. Not eat so many jolly ranchers.

i'm going to eat a hundred mcnuggets in one sitting

Actually write something. I'm tired of being stuck in the getting drunk and thinking about writing stage.

FlyingPig: To get laid.

As petty and juvenile as that sounds, I did not get laid once through all of 2007. So it is a real goal.

I'm pretty sure that this is my goal every year. And every year, something else comes up.

YouWinAgainGravity: i'm going to eat a hundred mcnuggets in one sitting

I'm going to cheer you on. Go for it, man!

move. sooner than later.

I'm really trying to get into the peace corps. and score an amateur fight in the light heavy weight division.

Move to a new country that doesn't depress the hell out of me, and where my accent can once again be fruitful.

Lose 20 lbs.
Land a role at a major stage theater in Pittsburgh.
Fill my summer with traveling bookings.
Book films and commercials regularly.
Earn double what I did in 2007.

Well I have a $4.8 million dollar quota to meet, so pulling $5 mil for my company would be a good start.

I definitely do want to help move my firm into mid-size status, pick up my CFP accreditation, and earn at least $120k this year.

I'd also like to finish a rough draft for the narrative I've been carrying in my head for well over a year. I'm holding myself to 5 pages a week.

oh and that laid thing, i may try for that too.

Is "Status Quo" a bad answer?

I have a couple of businesses I'd like to start, but I don't know anything about businesses. I can only write and sheetrock and make cheesecakes.

RabidDog: Move to a new country that doesn't depress the hell out of me, and where my accent can once again be fruitful.

*cough*CANADA*coughcough*

RabidDog: Move to a new country that doesn't depress the hell out of me, and where my accent can once again be fruitful.

You have an accent?

I'll be dipped in shiat ;)

RabidDog: Move to a new country that doesn't depress the hell out of me, and where my accent can once again be fruitful.

England's got you down, huh? What about it in particular?

I'd visit there. But, I suppose living in any one place too long will depress the hell out of you. I've lived in or around Boston my whole life, and truth be told, I'm starting to hate it.

Get a competitive score on my board exam.

Finish the 1st Chopin ballade.

Finish my pilot's license.

Lose the excess beer that's hiding my ripped abs.

This:

Zotfripper: Two chicks at once.

Oh, well if we are ammending things:

Alice_Liddell: I want to do a painting a month, every month and not give any away. Then in Dec or maybe Jan of '09, I want to do my first art gallery show.

That one actually sounds pretty sweet. I may try for it myself.

YouWinAgainGravity: i'm going to eat a hundred mcnuggets in one sitting

what's that thing about a trunk full of mcnuggets and however many gallons of sweet and sour sauce? i'd really like to think that's not just in my head.

YouWinAgainGravity: oh and that laid thing, i may try for that too.

i think these two actions could easily correlate. *wink emoticon*

YouWinAgainGravity: oh and that laid thing, i may try for that too.

We can, like, be a team. We'll help each other out in striving for our goals.

I'm not eating a hundred McNuggets, though.

cacophony_lo: May I recommend an editor?

you can recommend it all you want. It could be PERFECT, without an agent no publisher will accept it!

Seriously RabidDog there are tons of awesome locales in Canada, as well as video game development houses, and your accent will put you knee-deep in vagina.

FlyingPig: To get laid.

As petty and juvenile as that sounds, I did not get laid once through all of 2007.

so.....you're married?

FlyingPig: England's got you down, huh? What about it in particular?

Have you been to urban England for any length of time?

It's not the most sunshiney and cheerful place.

RabidDog: Move to a new country that doesn't depress the hell out of me, and where my accent can once again be fruitful.

Hey, I offered. You'll love India.

Barnacles!: so.....you're married?

Ha...no. Married people get laid more than I do. THAT is sad.

miseducated: *cough*CANADA*coughcough*

Possibly. Let's say perhaps you might hypothetically have a warrant in the States, would Canada uphold that?

FlyingPig: England's got you down, huh? What about it in particular?

The living here part. It's grey, dreary, dirty, people are not the happy go lucky friendly sort I have become accustomed to.
Nice place to visit, I guess.

Barnacles!: so.....you're married?

miseducated: Seriously RabidDog there are tons of awesome locales in Canada, as well as video game development houses, and your accent will put you knee-deep in vagina.

I typically avoid vagina that has had any feet in it.

Alice_Liddell: I want to do a painting a month, every month and not give any away.

I will hold you to this.

new career path, this unemployed shiat is interfering with my shopping.

miseducated: Have you been to urban England for any length of time?

It's not the most sunshiney and cheerful place.

That was going to be one of my first guesses.

To learn how to play Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring on a glass harmonica

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on and individual level. It's got to happen inside first. You can take away a man's political freedom and you won't hurt him- unless you take away his freedom to feel. That can destroy him. That kind of freedom can't be granted. Nobody can win it for you.