Jumpin' on the bandwagon?

I apologise for all of you who eagerly logged on at 12:10pm to read my 1st thing in the morning post. This morning I asked for work before I blogged, so this shall be my 2nd thing in the morning post. It's 11:16 a.m. and I'm already out of things to do. Furthermore, silent guy the font of all work sheepishly told me when I asked him if there was anything else I could do "Umm...I'm actually trying to wind down..." I shall have to widen my net and approach more potential sources of work. After I finish this post, of course.

Every one is thinking up their new year's resolutions (well, that's if Jen and Rima constitute everyone, hehehe. Don't let it go to your head, it's mere puffery on my part!) The last resolution I made that I can remember is that I would remember to put perfume on everytime I left the house- that was about 2-3 years ago, and my still full bottles of Les Belles de Ricci and Tommy Girl (which are so so so old, they're probably losing their scent- what a waste!) are testament to how successful that resolution was. Ironically, I have since acquired Curious with it's lovely atomiser (thank you again beautiful friends!) and I've been quite religiously putting it on every morning before I go to work. Go figure.

I relate to so many of Jen's resolutions, it's uncanny. So apologies if some appear to be rip-offs...

1. Lose weight, lose fat, get fit, get toned: I just googled a body-mass-index calculator and it tells me I'm at the upper end of normal weight. This is disturbing, since ever since I was a small child (up until year 12 I reckon) I've been underweight, or just in normal weight range. In addition to this, I think my fat to muscle ratio must be absolutely horrendous...waaaay too many flabby bits on me. Five years of fat flabbiness is enough! As such, I resolve to go to the Unigym on Friday mornings AND Wednesday afternoons in Session 1. Will someone please hold me to this!!
2. Have more guts/thicker skin: You will note from the glut of posts on me worrying about asking people for work, and the amount of consternation that causes me, that I'm not particularly gutsy, and I just tend to sidle away timidly when things don't happen to fall into my lap of their own accord. This is not to say that I'm going to become all overly assertive and in your face (I'm thinking of one person in particular at this point!). It's more about not getting so hung up over asking about/for things (including work, restaurant reservations etc). I mean, really! The worst they can say is no, right?
3. Work on more songs: My mantra used to be, "if this works, I don't ever need to be a lawyer!" Well, now I've discovered that maybe I wouldn't miiiiind being a lawyer. But of course, being a songwriter and living off royalties would always be preference number one! So to that end, definitely need to work on more songs and try to pimp them out to people. And I still want to get into a studio and record some of my own stuff, if just to experience what it's like.
4. Stop being so selfish: Definitely need to think about others more. I have this nasty habit of always thinking about "What's in it for me?", when really, that's not the question I should be asking. Shame on me! This is something I want to consciously try to improve.
5. Get a real job: As much as I love Baku, and love the people there, I neeeeed a reeeaaal degree related job. ARGH. Where the heck will I get one of those...??????
6. Finish my tour of the 3 hat restaurants in Sydney: I've done Rockpool and Tetsuya's (though I would not say no to a repeat visit if someone was shouting!), and still to go are Quay, est., Marque and Claude's (which technically isn't a 3 hat restaurant, but was for a good period of time before the new chef took over!) (omg, I'm salivating looking at the menus of these places!) (does this resolution strike you as rather contrary to resolution number one?)
7. Walk more closely with God: last, but definitely definitely not the least. Actually, in terms of resolutions that matter...it's number one.

What a marathon post! Thanks for getting up to here! =)