New Year's Resolutions

This year I had two New Year's Resolutions.
They were:

1. Pass my course and go to university
2. Give up drinking alcohol in January.

The first is self-explanatory.
The second was a wild and crazy idea I came up with.  It was provoked by the usual pre/post-Christmas slip into drinking every day over the holidays.  I also thought it might help me sleep and/or concentrate better for my exams.

The last time I attempted to have a month off drinking was in March 2011.  That month, Carlos and I gave up all of the following:

• Meat
• Wheat
• Cheese
• Chocolate, crisps, etc.
• Alcohol

It was an interesting experiment, in retrospect.  Looking back over my old blog, I noticed with amusement that by the end of the month, I was describing it as 'the diet of cruel misery' and used the adjectives 'grim', 'boring', 'vile' and 'monstrous'.  Hmm.  Sounds like it wasn't that fun at the time...

We also cheated on the alcohol.  A few times.

I've discovered this time that it's a lot easier when you haven't given up all the other stuff as well.  Carlos only managed 17 days before he caved in, but I'm still going strong.  Only a few more days to go so I'm sure I'll do it, and it feels like quite an achievement.  Even when I was pregnant I drank a glass of wine each week.  This is probably the longest I've gone without drinking alcohol at all for fifteen years, maybe twenty.  Wow.

Anyway.  As the end of January approaches, I've come up with another resolution.  I'm going to attempt to do this for the whole of February.  Lucky it's a short month as it's going to be tough.  Carlos has promised to join me.  My new resolution is:

Give up moaning.

It's a toughie!  This means no bitching about my college tutors, no nagging, no being a misery because things aren't going my way.  I am still allowed to be pissed off, but I have to keep it to myself.   I think this is going to be extraordinarily difficult, but we shall see!