Instead of resolutions, here are my 2011 rules to live by, in the hopes that publishing them will make me adhere to them (even if, much like those inspirational quotation books with pictures of cute animals on the covers, they are more likely to be displayed than read).
- Only eat food worth eating, and all in moderation
- Make room for a half-hour workout most days a week
- Feed your brain on things outside a computer
- Don't sweat the small stuff (and sometimes schoolwork is small stuff)
- Don't waste the daylight (and don't hoard the nighttime)
- Don't revert to your ante-Rome self,* but embrace the va bene lifestyle
*Partly why I got the nose ring—so that contradicting this rule is on some level impossible.
And, y'know, cultivating peace and love couldn't do any harm.
