Almost-new-year resolutions.
I did make New Year Resolutions, but as my record of keeping such resolutions can best be described as 'abysmal', I hold out little hope.
it occurred to me that if I make them public I might be more inclined to actually do something about them. On the other hand, six months from now I could just delete this entry so it's not as fixed as it might be.
So here they are.
1. Find an agent, or failing that, find a publisher for Samuel's Girl. Revise it as much as necessary to achieve this.
2. Lose some weight.
3. Spend less (my personal favourite).
Now, you would think that losing weight and spending less should work together, surely? Losing weight means eating less food, therefore buying less food. The principle to weight loss is actually extremely simple.
1. Eat less food.
2. Repeat until thin.
3. If you are offered a job as a catwalk model, you've gone too far.
Therefore eating less should save money, yes? Yet it seems the world is full of diets that involve eating less but spending more! It makes no sense at all. Rather like those energy-efficient systems that cost more than they save.
I'm not spending money on nutrition-free 'bulking up' powders that work, as far as I can tell, in the same way as cement. I'm just going to eat less. Logic tells me that will work. I'll soon find out.
Unfortunately logic doesn't help me with resolution one. That's pretty much down to a combination of chance and bloody-minded persistence. The first isn't under my control but the second one is. Bloody-minded persistence it is then. I can do that.
And it might take my mind off food.
