It's that time of year for New Year's resolutions so I thought I'd share mine with the world. I didn't have any resolutions last year and it bothered me - while I got a lot done last year, there wasn't the same satisfaction that comes from achieving your goals (if I ever have a therapist, I suspect we'll be discussing this one day). Here are this year's resolutions, grouped around a couple of themes:
Food
I'm going to learn how to cook Thai food. If this works out, then each year from now on I'll try to master one new type of cuisine
Cook 2x/week. Less eating out and more eating in. This isn't due to the economy, rather I need to become a better chef
Do a weekly cook-off with Richard. Each week one of us has to cook for the other; we'll rope in Wendy and Jill at some point. We did this for a while last summer and it was a blast; now we need to institutionalize it
Take coffee lessons at [Joe](http://www.joetheartofcoffee.com/). Every morning I make two lattes (one for each of Wen and I). It's about time I learned how to make them much better. Attention Richard: you're getting roped into this
Fitness
Do 25 push-ups and 30 sit-ups every day
Some combination of run/swim/bike/climb 3x per week
Run the NYC marathon
Substitute my daily Diet Coke/Dr Pepper and M&M's at work for water
Tech
Blog every day (or at least 365 times this year)
Work on personal coding projects for at least 10 hours a week-and push at least one of them to live by the end of this year
Port this site to [Django](http://www.djangoproject.com/) and add some more interesting little applications (e.g., my app keeping track of random New York moments, etc). Note that if this resolution means nothing to you, don't worry. It's written in nerd-speak
Learn [Processing](http://processing.org/) and try to use it to teach kids how to use computers
Personal
Most important resolution this year: get married to the woman I love
Take DJ lessons
Read more of the books I've got lying around. I'm going to try and not buy a book until I've read all the ones I already have
Write in my notebook every day
Other
Subscribe to a few of the following magazines:
[The Believer](http://www.believermag.com/)
[De:Bug](http://www.de-bug.de/)
[Granta](http://www.granta.com/)
[Maisonneuve](http://www.maisonneuve.org/)
[Open City](http://www.opencity.org/)
[The Paris Review](http://www.parisreview.com/)
[Tin House](http://www.tinhouse.com/)
[Zoetrope](http://www.all-story.com/)
Become a better value investor (and put my money where my mouth is)
Make a list of things I would like to eventually have when I own a house (e.g., fern garden, etc.). This isn't some narcissistic fantasy, rather, in a few years time each of these ideas will become a future resolution