NEW YEARS RESOLUTION!!

[belleshell]

Whats yours????

Mine is to find out the real me, not the mum nurse, daughter, sister.....Just the real me!

Happy New Year to you all lets hope 2011 is a happy one..

To survive another year. It's about all I can manage still, getting from one day to the next.

yes, getting from day to day; and hoping the gods or Mother Nature will give be a push in the right direction. (I sound like a retired traffic warden) HNY "Gabby"

I'm not making any - when I do, I never keep to them anyway.

I always hope that each year will be better than the previous and that's as far as I'm prepared to go.

Good luck to all us LP's in 2011; we need luck far more than most :o

Happy New Year LP's. Agree that getting by is the way forward.

No, no, we have to do much more than get by. Come on girls (and boys)!

Mine is to have more holidays as you can never have too many. So a week in Marrakesh at Easter with a friend and two weeks in Italy in the summer.

I've got my head around the week being hard work, so I've taken the advice here a while ago and go to bed really early one night a week. Apart from that, I'm super organised (cleaner, menu planning, online shopping) so I can spend my Sunday afternoons lying on the sofa reading the paper.

Also DD is nearly 6 so the perfect age to have lots of friends round. Then I get loads more time to myself when the grateful parents have her over.

2009 and 2010 were crap for me, 2011 will be much better. Let's not settle for getting by, life is much more interesting than that.

Queen, great, uplifting post. On reflection I guess we could all do better in some way, shape or form, than getting by.

Posted my new year resolution on another thread, wine fuelled of course, and it was to get a new job and have lots of sex....why not?!?!? . I definitely need to chill more, stress at the slightest thing and I need to use my spare time more productively but I'm not sure doing what. I did actually think about having a new month resolution...something specific to each month so January would be to stop drinking and start some exercise plan....

Thank you Queen, you have given me reason to reassess what could be a gloomy time.

I agree, it should be more than just getting by. We work bloody hard as LPs and we deserve to have as a rich and fulfilled life as the next person. Many of us didn't ask to be LPs but that shouldn't mean that all other aspects of our lives fall by the wayside. That way the XH/P has really done a job on us and that's not on!

Although I have lots of like-to-do's this year the only one I really need to get a handle on is using my time without my dcs better. It the moment I just seem to sit about waiting for them to come back. I need to get organised!

HNY to all LPs

Mine is to finally lose the weight I've been carrying since having the children. For me.. to feel good in my own skin.

And to be happy. Not making do, feel really happy.

Hi All - First "proper" post on MN - some of the Boards seemed a bit scary but I've been lurking on the LP Boards over Xmas & you seem like a nice supportive lot so I now feel brave enough to post.

2011 is a big year for me - I turn 50 (but have a 10 year old DS). Have spent a lot of years just getting by - (necessary to start with but think I got a bit stuck in the habit). Ready for something more now - so thanks for your inspiring post QueenofWhatever...

Resolutions: run a 5km race for charity, go on a date, go on holiday maybe without DS !!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Hi Smada nice to hear from you :)
My new years resolution is to actually remember that I am an actual woman in my early 30's and not just a LP and for that reason will have more s*x lol

Smada here (just changed my nickname slightly as it sounded a bit stark - now it just sounds a bit silly - but hey- that's OK)

Thanks for friendly welcome & support re: the big 50 !!!

Here's wishing that we all succeed in our resolutions...

Mine is to not get into another relationship and to continue trying to become comfortable with myself.

Well all 3 days in how is it going...... i have started as i mean to continue, today i have spring cleaned (my old life) and given my ex all our wedding things back, the ones he kindly packed for me when i left a failing marriage, where i was ignored and took for granted.i also go him to admit he failed me so i can at last move on.so as far as 2011 first 3 days have been bloody fab, diet starts tomorrow.....half stone incentives needed.got any ideas.

Survive.

Go to the gym more (I used to go 6 times a week before DC's). I have no idea how I will accomplish this with work and 2 pre-schoolers but I am going to give it a go. If I can't go out in the evenings then the odd hour at the gym will keep me sane.

De-junk the house.

Mine are:-

1. Quit alcohol, felt I was using it as a crutch a bit too much, drinking every other night, not good for my waistline or purse.

1. Start walking more places (which is hard) as I hate cold winds and feel the cold more than any other living creature that has ever lived before me or will ever live after me.

1. Try to get my french doors - have wanted them forever and never can afford.

1. Kids MUST go to bed by 8.30, allowing them to stay up to give me company is selfish and does them no favours.

1. Watch more foreign films.

THat is my list for 2011. Oh yeah and not bother with the SUC.

no sex so far do you think its the fact I haven't been out since NYE or the fact that I spent NYD having my kidneys scanned cos I feel into a table and now have a purple bruise the size of a small country on my back lol v attractive ;)

mmmmmmm lucie the table could have somet to do with it....there is still 360 days to go........ hope u are ok and not in too much pain...

ouch lucie, not a great start to the new year. No sex here either but then I haven't seen a soul (apart from A & E staff with dd2 and her broken arm) since I finished work on 17th Dec.

Belle, have a look on the weight loss boards, loads of ideas/support.

One of my New Years resolutions is to start to say "yes" to invitations I receive, for the last ten years or so I usually say no or else say yes and then find an excuse not to go on the night and then wonder why everyone else seems to have a life and I don't