A QUICK NOTICE
I started writing this blog post on 27th December
hence why I start it off by going on about Christmas.
That's all, really. Enjoy.
Well fucking hell hasn't 2012 just shot by like a lightning bolt? (Do lightning bolts shoot by? Certainly not but thinking of a better metaphor at four in the morning is difficult).
Christmas is well and truly over now, leaving us with that horrible, pointless week between Boxing day and New Years eve where you're not entirely sure what day it is, it's just that simple last week of the year where each day is lost in its pointlessness. Observe.
25th December: Christmas Day
26th December: Boxing Day
27th December: The day after Boxing day
28th December: "What day is it today?" day
29th December: Two days til new years day
30th December: New Years Eve-Eve
31st December: New Years eve
1st January: New years day.
That is, a whole week of confusion and post Christmas/Pre New Years joy. It's also the week where you just patiently wait for New Years to come so you can officially start your new years resolution. I am anyway.
I could just easily get started with these now, but to make it more official I'm actually waiting for the moment I wake up, hungover in 2013, and go "righto, Here we go let's make life decent" or something.
And I'm not really a firm believer in New years resolutions they have an air of temporary value to them, by February most people have all but abandoned each one.
So I've decided instead of resolutions, I'll simply have ambitions. Ambitions that instead of just hoping to achieve I'll actually put a decent amount of efforts towards. At the end of the year I'll post an update for myself and see how I got on. Easy, hopefully. List style, as always.
Ambition: 01:
Lose Weight.
This is a rough start seeing this is the very same ambition I had for my first pick in the Ambitions for 2011 blog post, In fact this is how that entry started.
Okay, now this one is infact more of a resolution, not the best start. But I am sadly getting chunkier then I had previously wished
Look at what the hell happened there! I was chunky back then. Lovably chunky, the sort of chunky you could see and still want to pursue some sort of encounter with on the off chance that the cuddles would be nice.
NOW!
I'm less chunky, and more fat. I've really gone mental in the past two years with lack of exercise and consumption of fast food, it's gotten to the extent now where I feel a career in belly dancing might be my forte.
So, what can I do about this?
Easy really, the solution to this plan would be to stop eating fast food. The money I save will probably be quite monumental at that.
And secondly, go to the gym more than once a month.
Though on that note I've now manage to sign Luke up, Girlfriend-face up, and a friend from work up. So that's three people I can go with now, hopefully making 3-4 visits per week a plausible goal.
With that, I can hopefully get an at least lovely body, for two reasons.
1: I want a rib tattoo. Because why the fuck not?
And reason number two is actually number 2 on the ambition list......
Ambition: 02:
Visit America.
At some point in February 2011, I had a small house party with a few friends. Eventually as the night went on, Lukes appetite grew larger, thus the night turned into a journey for food.
An hour passes, Lukes finally eaten something and we're off home to a now empty house.
Determined not to let the night run flat, I in all my drunken logic suggest going onto Omegle, a website that simply pairs you up with random people worldwide.
After what I can only describe as a constant assault of seeing penis's all over my laptop screen we finally got paired with a statistical inevitability. Two girls!
I don't remember at all what was said, but long story short we all added each other on Facebook and have been friends ever since. So much to the extent where I sent them a Christmas parcel this year.
Now, back in the old MSN days I had plenty of overseas friends... America, Australia, Denmark, Canada, New Zealand and plenty more. All of which I once upon a time promised I'd visit but never did.
But I'm at the age now, and point of friendship where I know it'll be a swell idea, and thus saving for our trip to America will begin, and hopefully we make it there for the Summer time. Which of course is why it's pretty important to lose weight for this!
Ambition: 03:
Write more Blogs.
Over the past year my Blog has gone from a small personal blog which averaged about 20-30 views per day, to a blog that dabbles around in the 1000 views per day region. I like this. I like it a lot and would really like to keep it up.
Now this throws an extraordinary amount of pressure though to write not only decent posts, but posts that people actually care about, and would want to share.
Let's be fair though, a lot of posts I write are written for my own boredom's sake, and a few are written with the hope of getting shared, so it's a bit of a mish-mash of posts, for hopefully everybody to at least pretend to enjoy.
Most views this year.... In fact I'd say about 90% of my views this year came from my 50 shades of grey quotes post, in which I gained most of my Facebook followers also. So there's that, keeping on top of a trend is the way to go, it kinda makes me wish that the stupid woman who wrote that awfully shit book would come out with a new one so I could rip on that some more, though I think it's far to late to do any other 50 Shades posts, that boat is sailing to another kingdom.
Twitter might help me keep up to date, but when I'm intending to do a post on how awful Twitter is, this might serve as a setback.
Ambition: 04:
Get back into acting
I liked acting, I also like to think I was pretty good at it in a comedic way, it was a good reason to create and act as a moron, and still be loved for it.
Despite this apparent like for it though, I've stopped and continued to look away from that route for about five years now. All through that five years I occasionally thought to myself "Man I should do that shit again".
Truth be told, I have no idea how to go about it now though, I live miles away from any sort of place where auditions could be held, I think I'm too old to re-enter that youth theater place, and to this day I still have a massively strong dislike of theater kid stereotypes, in addition to them having a massively overly inflated ego, they don't half take that shit seriously.
Say what you want about opinions on these sort of kids, it's not to my liking though. Acting... Good, let the cameras roll, let everybody see the glory, but the whole conveying emotion into a dance or pose thing is just a complete medley of cringy horrible moments, and I've been through them before, each and every time thinking "What the fucking hell am I doing?".
Alas, I'd like to take another crack at it, it'd be another creative outlet, it'd be another thing to write about, and most of all it'd be fun. Who knows maybe something will pop up for me.
Ambition: 05:
Publish a shitty book of some kind.
Christmas time, I had a cool little idea pop into my head, that I wanted to go through with.
Why not, print out every blog post I've written in the past, and put it into a book, and send it to one of my Facebook followers?
And I actually wanted to do this, but here's a rather cynical problem on this matter.
My blog is incredibly directionless, a lot of blogs usually have a set theme in mind, whether it be news, celebrity, fashion. Whereas mine is just "This is my opinion, and I will make you like it" which really, is only interesting to a few people, it's why my 50 Shades quote post is my most popular one, because its been searched out, very few people have read it and then gone "Oh I enjoyed that, now I wonder what this guys favorite food is?" or something, some people may have, who knows but that's not the point.
Which brought me to this obvious conclusion that a book of my blog posts is impratical and a waste of time. However, my "sub blog" categories might stand a chance, namely the shitty dating posts, and/or my useless app ones. (In fact, I only just considered the pointless app idea).
So, my idea and main ambition of 2013 is to write more shitty dating posts, browsing more than the one dating website and numerous cities around the world, poking fun at some of the worst online profiles I can find, and come next Christmas, when it seems that any book can be published have a crack at it. This! Will give me something to work towards, and hopefully with a set goal in mind, I'll actually be motivated to write it (As opposed to this post which has taken me nearly three weeks to care enough to write in).
So that's that. 5 goals I want to work towards this year, some plausible, some not. All I do know is that instead of sitting down, hoping that 2013 will be good to me, I'm going to actually make it good for myself, one way or the other.
Much Love!
Danzo
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