The New Year's Res.

1. First and foremost: stop cleaning the bath when I'm actually in it because that's gross.
2. Learn Ancient Greek. Or at least try.
3. Read 101 books.
4. Stick to the Les Misérable reading schedule and not rush ahead.
5. Similarly, do not rush War and Peace again.
6. Brush my hair every day and stop letting it get all tatty and matted. It's too long for that.
7. Stop trying to teach Little G to whistle the Law and Order: SVU theme tune. It's not going to happen. I've been trying for fourteen months now.
8. Get up at a reasonable hour. 
9. Go to bed at a reasonable hour.
10. Stop defining reasonable hours as 11am rise and 3am sleep.
11. Stop drinking coffee at 2am.
12. Start wearing nice clothes again and make an effort to look good.
13. Stop pretending I have to be clinically underweight to deserve to wear pretty clothes and make up.
14. Stop littering my side of the bed with used hankies.
15. Use my brown inhaler (the preventer one) twice a day as prescribed.
16. Don't let the ironing pile get out of hand - the day of 37 items of clothing to iron, October 2011: Lest I Forget.
17. Complete my book challenges.
18. Read non-challenge books.
19. Enjoy reading above all else. The challenge stops working? Bye bye challenge.
20. Drink a lot more water. I used to be awesome at that.
21. Aim for three or four blog posts a week.
22. Use my Tumblr more.
23. Make a bigger effort to stay in touch with people more: I'm so used to seeing people's updates on Facebook and kidding myself that that was staying in touch. Now I'm not on Facebook anymore I'm realising the problem.
24. Stop moving Bookshelf #1 around so much. It will collapse. It's probably going to collapse anyway, but I needn't make the problem worse.
25. Stop making other people's problems my problems. I know what I mean by this, and it's way too long and ridiculous to blog about.
26. Take more pictures.
27. Use my new Flickr account. I'll get some pictures on it in the next few days and start using it properly.
28. Exercise every other day, but not too much exercise.
29. Stop letting the bin overflow before I empty it.
30. Stop letting the ash bucket in the garden overflow before I empty it.
31. Get around to sweeping up the 2011 overflow.
32. Stop being afraid of the woodshed. Even though Ada Doom was right and there is something nasty in there because I've seen it in its eight-legged glory.
33. Start writing a few more book reviews.
34. Start reading more non-fiction.
35. Only eat white rice, white pasta or white bread once a week because they make me bloated and food babies freak me out.
36. Continue to resist the book-buying ban! Viva la résistance!
37. Continue to resist the kierachy.
38. Drink more Starbucks. Yes more. It's good for the soul.
39. Be a healthy person. I know what it entails, I don't need obsess over it.
40. Re-write my novel and make it into something I'm proud of.
41. Walk more.
42. Drink more fruit tea instead of coffee.
43. Start taking my skin care regime more seriously. I'm thirty in March and I've seen the adverts, I know what's in store (already I have broken #36).
44. Resolve to do better each day.
45. Listen to music more.
46. Be more accepting of other people's madness (an extension of #25).
47. Don't delete blog posts.
48. Don't delete blogs.
49. Stop rubbing my eyes when I'm wearing mascara.
50. Stop biting my nails.
51. Stop getting annoyed at people who walk slowly in town then suddenly stop. They can't help being inconsiderate assholes.
52. Open my letters instead of filing them in the "hell will freeze over before I can deal with yet more financial doom" drawer.
53. Stop resting coffee cups on books.
54. Start taking evening primrose oil.
55. Stop buying plants and just admit I forget to water them.
56. Stop dancing with Ras (my eldest cat) to Katy Perry, he really doesn't like her.
57. Dance to Katy Perry more with Little G, he really does like her (someone has to).
58. Keep Effy's coat tat free. If she won't wash herself every day, I will.
59. Keep rescuing sheep, birds, cats, and whatever else even though people think I'm weird now.
60. Get some of that weird oil stuff for my hands to treat the scars from the above mentioned creatures.
61. Stop tweaking Little G's little red tail, he hates it (I think he loves it really, he's just flirting).
62. Stop abusing my toenails with cheap nail polish.
63. Make Google+ happen for the world. Seriously, it's much better than Facebook.
64. Do things when I can do them, even if I can't complete the task, rather than wait for an appropriate time.
65. Stop wearing sunglasses in bed and just move the bed.
66. Stop drinking Coca Cola and accept it gives me migraines.
67. Break my addiction to lip balm.
68. Stop picking the scab on my knuckle.
69. Cook better food.
70. Make more people read Clarissa: we can make this a current classic again, people, fuck F. R. Leavis!
71. Go to Monk's House in Sussex.
72. Go to the Bronte Parsonage in Yorkshire.
73. Finish Villette for once and for all.
74. Do more stuff for my mam. As she never fails to remind me, she gave me life (which was good of her, it has to be said).
75. Read more poetry.
76. Wear more jewellery again. I used to wear more rings than Edith Sitwell, but my boyfriend at the time said I looked common so I stopped. But I liked wearing more rings and he's probably a sociopath anyway, so meh.
77. Stop using the foot space in the car as a bin.
78. Change my ring tone from Dev's Bass Down Low. That song isn't even good.
79. Read more and post more about Pre-Raphaelite art. I really love the PRB.
80. Read Remembrance of Things Past'ought to have read by now' challenge.
81. Keep on not drinking alcohol (I've never had a problem, just I stopped because of the empty calories, and I believe I'm a lot better for it).
82. Go for more walks with Bell, my best girlfriend who I hardly see.
83. Stop smelling my hair. I don't know why I do that.
84. Stop "hunting" for split ends. They don't need hunting anymore, they need to be cut.
85. Keep a diary. In a notebook and everything: old school style.
86. Accept that some fruits have pips and this in fact wasn't sent to try me.
87. Stop deliberately tormenting stupid people who cross me. They can't help being stupid (I never told you about the guy who misquoted Aristotle at me, did I? Fun times, but I admit I was a little bit of a bitch).
88. Be the best girlfriend I can to Big C.
89. Remember that hard stuff takes effort but is worth it.
90. Start doing yoga again.
91. Stop drinking so much Irn Bru.
92. Start reading Vogue again.
93. Pugs not drugs (I don't take drugs, I just want to get this list to 100 and I'm running out of things).
94. (In fact I fear I'll start promising myself I'll run a 7 minute mile by the end of the year).
95. Run a 7 minute mile (damn).
96. See the owls again in Kielder.
97. Get a lot more fresh air.
98. Get some bookmarks and stop using hair clips as bookmarks.
99. Stop being afraid of putting a book down half-way through a chapter.
100. Read a lot more 'chunksters' - I do seem to enjoy them.
101. Be awesome.