Martina Reilly:
My resolution this year is just to be myself! Not to try to be perfect or fitter or slimmer, but just to accept the fact that I am who I am.
Jenny Colgan:
My New Year’s resolutions are: to make proper appointments at the waxer’s rather than do cruddy home-based attempts which end in tears and razors; to cut down on my toast consumption; and to stop spending half my bloomin’ life on Facebook!
Louise Candlish:
Last year’s resolution was to take more holidays, but this year it’s to take fewer. I was always packing, it was ridiculous! Other than that, just my usual: have more patience, eat less chocolate, and try to say no occasionally . . .
Polly Williams:
To read my 2007 back-log pile of Amazon purchases before going online and scooping up a whole new load of books to add to it.
To stop buying shoes for a life I no longer lead, i.e. working at a glossy magazine. Embrace the fact that when writing, alone in a loft, no one cares about my shoes. No one is watching!
Kate Furnivall:
Over the years I’ve made lots of resolutions – from giving up my sudoku addiction to trimming my cat’s claws more often (you should see my sofa!). At the time they all seemed achievable. But now I think we should try making resolutions at a different time of year. After all, it’s very easy to think about giving up cakes or chocolate or alcohol when you’ve spent the last ten days doing nothing but eating, drinking and being merry.
So that’s my resolution for 2008 – I’m not going to make any until the end of June (by which time I’ll probably decide to leave it until Christmas, like everybody else).
Dorothy Koomson:
Me being me, I leave my ‘resolving’ for the coming year until the last bong of Big Ben, and then decide to do the first thing that comes to mind. If something is on my mind at that moment, it’s usually important enough for me to need to follow it through into the next year.
I feel I should point out that I don’t ‘give up’ things for New Year. Any bad habits I have are pretty much ingrained and are a (hopefully) loveable part of my personality. If I have a habit that I really do need to erase from my life, I usually decide to change it immediately and then do it. If I left it until New Year’s Eve (or Lent) then I’d find a million ways to make that habit worse before that time came around.
Posted 14/01/2008 13:09:11 by The Between the Sheets team with 0 comments.