I generally don't make new year's resolutions but I remember dedicating a year for some sort of target. Like 2003 was the year for looking and feeling beautiful (a bit vain I know), 2004 was for keeping fit, 2005 was for travelling, and so on... If you think they qualify as new year's resolution, we'll they're too general compared to what I hear and read from others. For this year, however, I want to make at least one specific resolution/promise/pledge. And I will write it here (more than once) so I can see it always and be constantly reminded of it.
Get most of my Christmas shopping done before December.
Simple as that. You see, my December 2012 was a lot crazier than usual that I barely had time for shopping gifts. And if I had that teeny weeny time, I end up shopping for myself also. And in that very scarce moments I show up in the malls, everyone shows up too and I get dizzy just looking at the line in the cashier and that's even before I picked out something for gifting... Arrghh, even the memory of those trips at the malls stresses me. That was the most anxiety-filled time of the year and I want to avoid that next year.
Again:
Get most of my Christmas shopping done before December.
Note the "most" in the sentence. "Most" because there are just some things you cannot plan ahead. Like the spur-of-the-moment party invites you get and the impromptu exchanging gifts that come with them.
How about you, Riza?
