I will never write an obligatory blog post about New Year’s resolutions.

Okay that was a lie.  Now that I’ve broken that first resolution, maybe I’ll keep the ones I’m about to make in earnest.

First of all, as a last minute surge, and because I was so close anyway, I achieved a great pre-New Year’s goal.  Before the end of 2009 I officially completed the 100th page of the novel I’ve been working on.  Which sets up the first of my New Year’s resolutions.  Page 200.  By the end of 2010.  I’m hoping I’ll get more done than that, but in an attempt to actually achieve my goal, I’m going to leave it at that and see where it goes.

Second thing.  I’m really proud of what we achieved on Lock, Stock, and Two Film Geeks this year.  We’ve had an audience that has consistently grown, even if it’s a bit small, and we’ve pretty much completely kept to our original schedule of one review per week on Wednesday, and a podcast every other Saturday.  We’ve even managed to put up some extremely successful additional feature articles here and there.  So the resolution with regards to this is simply to keep it up.  Keep to the schedule, maybe throw up some more content this year (more features from me hopefully, but no set number), and what happens, happens.

This year I’ve also begun to run at least once or twice a weekend, which is an improvement over my college years.  But this isn’t good enough for me.  I want to run five times a week.  With regards to this, I’m not going to hit the ground running.  The goal for this resolution is to be exercising five times a week by the end of the year.  Not all year.  End of the year.

And that’s it.  Of course I have more personal goals, but nothing that I want to set in stone.  Hope you all have had a better 2009 than I did, because, If I’m being honest, this was a really rough year for me.  It won’t be hard to make 2010 better than this.  Have a nice New Year’s eve.