New Year’s Resolutions

I guess it is time to welcome everyone to what is to be the start of a New Year and unlike last year it has two digits that makes up a number that not everyone likes and believes is unlucky, welcome to 2013.

Now if you have been read any of my blog’s since I started then I hope you have learned at least two things, one being that I am not superstitious person and two you have the power to create and choice what type of year you are going to have.

What I mean by this is that you have the ability to choice if you are going to have a good year or not and that if you spend the next year believing something is going to go wrong then you are more likely to make that come true. So let’s forget that we have a thirteen in the year and start making this year like the years before or better and if something does go wrong pick yourself up and move on.

Now there is always one thing that everyone tries to do before the New Year and then attempt them at the beginning of the year and those are called New Year’s Resolutions. Now I will be the first to admit that in the last two years I have done very badly and I have forgotten about them after about a month or two but this year I hope to us my blog as away to keep them going.

The way in which I want to do this is that I am going to set myself some goals for this blog, an example of this would be to create two blogs a month. Once I have laid out what I want from this blog I will then talk about my New Year’s Resolutions and how I will achieve them and keep a log of my process though out the year.

This blog well be staying the same as it always has but the only difference is that the blogs will have some form of structure to it unlike before. A good example of this would be that I may take a few weeks to go over a topic that has a lot of information in it or is very important to me. I am also hoping to at least cover a minimum of three topics a month with at least one of those being a look back at my progress so far with my New Year’s resolutions.

The last time that I took a New Year’s Resolutions seriously was back in 2010 and to the most part I did very well with them even with everything that happened to me that year. The last two years I have started them but somewhere along the line I just stopped because I believed that I wasn’t going complete them but this time round I will go in trying to succeed as best as possible.

The first one on my list is one that everyone goes for each year and each year we all give up or get nowhere close so my plan is to set myself a weight goal that I want to reach. As you could have guessed my first New Year’s Resolution is to lose weight but I want to weight as close too or less than 170 pounds, I should also point out that before Christmas I weighted in at 200 pounds but with Christmas comes weight gain so I have a feeling that I now weight more than I did before Christmas.

My next New Year’s Resolution is something that I bought up in last week’s blog when I spoke about films, I have always been a fan of films but last year I saw less new released films than I have ever seen in previous years so my action plan is to watch at least one new released film each month.

 

So what should my next resolution be? Well the next one is going to be a personal one but as my blog will be heading in this direction soon and it has been a topic that I have touch on once or twice before so I should at least try and work on it. I know that I need to work on my own relationship more than I have in the past year. Before anyone says that it takes two to tango I should point out that some of what I want to cover I don’t do or I don’t do very well so if I want to preach about something I need to be at least be doing it or have experienced it.

 

The last two that I have in mind are ones that have been nagging at me for some time. One of them is to complete the editing that I started last year on my book and to start getting the ball rolling on trying to get it published. The last one is to play and complete Final Fantasy VII, the reason that this is on my list is due to the fact that everyone I know and everyone on the internet says that this game is one of the best of all time but back when I it was released and became very popular I did everything that I could to stay clear of it (a bit like the Assassin Creed which I am playing and enjoying at the moment.) 

 

So there you have it, those are my New Year’s Resolutions for this year and what I have planned for my blog too. I hope that you all have had a good New Year so far and if you have any New Year’s Resolutions that you wish to share with me then place them in comments.

Until next time

Refection

I do hope that everyone has had a wonderful Christmas and I am guessing that you are all now getting ready for New Year Eve but before we even get there I would like to take some time to look back at some of the good things that have happened this year.

The main events for everyone are two of biggest events to happen within the United Kingdom and will be on the top of everyone’s list and those are the Queen’s Jubilee and the Olympic games as a whole, to me these two events weren't that big for me due to the fact that I have never been into sports and I never liked the idea of having the Olympics coming to this country to bring with. When It came to the Queen’s Jubilee I was happy to hear that she had made sixty years on the throne and I do hope that I can see history when she becomes the longest reigning monarch but that is some time off but getting two extra bank holidays that I felt like where just two normal days to me with a lots of rain was something that I felt wasn’t as a bigger deal as everyone else believed.

One news story this year that disappointed me the most was to do with Lance Armstrong and him losing all seven of his Tour De France titles, for years Lance Armstrong had battle Cancer and continued to train and win races only to be accuse year after year that he used performance enhancing drugs when he was tested at the end of each race and was cleared of them. To me this should never have happened and I will always believe that he won those seven Tour De France races.

The last think that most people well member about 2012 was the release of a fan fiction called Master of the Universe (Fifty Shades Trilogy) that has now allowed book shops to carry mild porn novels on their shelves (The less I say about this the better it will be for all of us).

The last news related story that was a big deal this year for me and I hope everyone else remembers it, is the death of Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon.

Now that I have covered the main stories that everyone will remember this year I will now take some time to look at some stories that weren’t that main stream that I will remember 2012. The first two that I wish to have a look at where two televisions show that came to an end this year.

The first on my list was Chuck and for those that have not seen or heard about it, in short it is about a nerd that becomes a government spy and falls in love with his handler Sarah. I will be honest with everyone that when the first series came out I watched it and wanted to know what happened next but due to the fact that I was then unable to watch the rest of the show due to the person I was dating at this point in my life I had only started re-watching the show from the beginning when the fifth and final series began, so I was lucky neither to see the show from the beginning to end and the way in which it end was great for me because it was left open for the fans or the creators to continue the story the way in which they want to.

The next show that came to an end was Eureka and this was a show that I made sure I watched every episode when it came on and I just loved every part of it. The shows cancellation came out of the blue last year but it wasn’t until this year that the show ended and like Chuck it finished on a high as well as coming full circle, if you want to know what I mean then go watch the show from the beginning to the end and you will see what I mean.

This year I was unable to watch as many films as I wanted to but I hope to correct this going into next year but the films that I did see I would recommend you to go and see them. The first three on my list consist of three films that I wanted to see in the cinema but only ended up seeing two of them, when I first heard about The Hunger Games I wasn’t too sure about the film but after seeing the first trailer I knew that I was going to like this film and after seeing it in the cinema I just couldn’t wait to see what will happen next (plus when I get some money I will be buying these books).

The next film on the list is the highest grossing film of the year and that is the Avengers Assemble, if you are like me and have enjoyed the Marvel films so far you will love this film and if you haven’t seen it I think you should go get the DVD and watch the film right now.

The last film in this group and the only film that I didn’t see in the cinema was director by the same person that did the Avengers Assemble movie, the film was called Cabin in the Woods and let’s just say this isn’t your normal horror movie. When I first say the trailer I knew that it was going to be something different and as soon as it came out on DVD I watched it and enjoyed every minute. Best way I can describe this movie is a horror movie that is unlike any horror movie you have seen before plus it has as massive twist.

The last three films that I saw this year were all movies that to me where done very well but at the same time were not received very well by the public. The first of the three was Prometheus which is a prequel to the Alien movie which was created by Ridley Scott but shows you the events that lead up to the Alien movie but then goes in a completely different direction which is good. If you liked Alien then you should go pick up this up on DVD.

The Last film that I saw in the cinema that wasn’t reviewed very well was Looper. Now the reason that I enjoyed this film was because it actually got me thinking at the end and also because I very much enjoy time travelling films, it was also nice to see Bruce Wills playing a bad guy.

Now the last film that I saw from this year’s collection was Total Recall, now it has been sometime since I have seen the original so to a point I went in blind when I bought the DVD last week to watch but I really enjoyed the cast and the way in which the story went. The film isn’t as bad as everyone has made it out to be but if you are unsure then I would say wait a month or two to buy it at a cheaper price.

As a whole this year hasn’t been as bad as everyone has believed it to be, the world is still here and we are still over populating as we normally do. If there is one thing that I have learned over the years is we have the power to make a year good or bad. I know that personal issue do fact into it a lot but at the end of the day it is you that has the choice to make your life and year into what you want, plus there are events and other forms of entrainment to help you out too.

For those that have been reading my blog I hope that you have a good New Year’s Eve and New Years Day and if there is one think that I want you all to take away for this blog is that you control what next year is going to be like.

Until next time