I don't do resolutions. Especially not New Year's ones. It seems like whenever I've made a NYR in the past, I've pretty much immediately failed to do anything about it. As such, I only make decisions and choices. And New Year seems like a reasonable time to do this. I mean, yeah, it's an artificial point that only exists due to the incorrect accounting made by a bunch of blokes-in-dresses about the birthday of a person who I don't actually believe existed anyway, but, hell, I had a good Christmas.

Anyway, I've made a few decisions based around wanting to fix things that didn't work last year. The most important ones are that I want to see my friends a lot more often this year. Last year we (i.e. Candy and I) could go for weeks without seeing any of the people (other than relations) who are special to us and we want to change that this year. (Already started! I spent the day with shewhomust and durham_rambler last week.)

Secondly, Candy and I want to actually do more stuff together. All we seem to have done for most of the year is sit on our arses in the evening and watch telly. Admittedly, when what we're watching is The Wire, it's bloody hard to want to do anything else, but we've nearly finished season 4 and then there's only season 5 and then it's over. What do we do after that??? We nearly bought tickets to go and see West Side Story at the Theatre Royal, but, unfortunately, they were just a teensy bit too expensive (I mean, £15 for the Gods? That's what I call over-priced!) (However, we did spend the day together last week, which was wonderful. So I can tick that one off as being started as well.)

Thirdly, I've decided that Ellen need to get out more. I think that I only got completely dressed up about three times in 2008 and that's really crap. So, I'm going to try and get out at least once a month (or, failing that, get fully dressed - clothes, make up, jewellery, the lot!) at least once a month. To that end, I've found a TG social group (as far as I know, it is purely social. It doesn't claim to be a support group and I really don't have any need of support. I've got amazing support from all my family and friends) and I'm going to start going to that. I think it's probably going to be the week after next (not next week, because it's on a Wednesday evening and I am working until 6.00 next Wednesday.)

So, that's two out of three decisions with a very strong start. I just need to keep it going and, really, it shouldn't be that hard. Should it?