New Years Resolutions 2014

Well here we go again, let's see if I can keep these this year:

• Eat better food, meaning more "made from scratch" and less "processed" stuff. Cut back on sweets and fast food, or at least modify them to be healthier. Continue with having no soda, if I have cocktails...have the kind that can be made without soda.
• Cut back on playing "Game of Thrones Ascent", like don't let it become a priority.
• Finish my fan fictions and try to start a new one.
• Get more artwork done, at least enough to be able to complete a "Best of 2015" in Deviantart. Update: Do a sketch a day.
• Try again on keeping my room clean and organized, and when I an cleaning...finish the job all the way through.
• Don't give up on searching for a job. Build up my network that could help find new opportunities. Do more volunteer work or anything that can help build my resume.
• Continue to save 10% of my big paydays to my credit union account. Fill all my piggy banks back up with spare change.

I will check on these again in June to see how I an doing.

Best of 2014

Here it is, my annual Best and Worst of list. And here are the thing I thought were cool and what weren't cool:

Best New Albums:
Slipknot - 5: The Gray Chapter
In This Moment - Black Widow
The Pretty Reckless - Going to Hell

Worst New Albums:
Iggy Azalea's album

Best Songs:
The Negative One by Slipknot
Words as Weapons by Seether
This Means War by Avenged Sevenfold
Heaven Knows by The Pretty Reckless
Do I Wanna Know by the Arctic Monkeys

Worst Songs:
Happy by Pharrell
Fancy by Iggy Azalea

Best New to me band I got into:
The Pretty Reckless
Adelita's Way

Potential One Hit Wonder:
Iggy Azalea

Best New TV Shows of 2014:
American Horror Story: Freak Show
Constantine

Worst New TV Show of 2014:
Extant
Selfie

Best Movies of 2014:
Transformers Age of Extinction
Guardians of the Galaxy
Captain America The Winter Soldier
Divergent

Worst Movies of 2014 (or the kind I wouldn't even see in a dollar theater):
Grown Ups 2
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The Controversial Movie of 2014:
The Interview

Actor and Actress of the Year:
Scarlett Johansson
Mark Wahlburg

Best Book of 2014:
The World of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin

Best Book I read in 2014:
A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin

Best memes:
parodies of Kim Kardashians' "Break the Internet" paper magazine cover
Sochi problems

Best Viral Movement:
Ice Bucket Challenge

Worst Viral Movement:
Fire Challenge

Worst move by any media (replacing Worst Quote category):
Self Magazine placing cancer survivor's tutu's on a meter as "Lame"
Sony pictures pulling the movie "The Interview" because of the hacking by North Korea. (update: they released it in arthouse theaters and on xbox)

Worst Current Event:
Mike Brown shooting and police brutality of protestors in Ferguson
Bill Cosby alleged rape accusations

Best Comics:
Transformers Windblade series
Transformers Dawn of the Autobots series
Transformers Primacy series

Resolutions Check-up

Well I did it! I actually managed to do this on time! Of course I wrote it on my calender and today is the end of June.

Since I don't post here often, the resolutions are two posts down. So...here is how i am doing so far.

I have not been exercising very much, however...I have given up soda for good! I only had one a month ago because I wanted to try the vanilla Dr. Pepper. It turns out not to be as good as I thought, so that was it.

The next step now is to stay away from candy. Or at least stop buying the bags of it to stash in my room. I know starting August or September there will be loads of holiday candy from Halloween to Easter. Ugh! That is about 8 months! At least the summer doesn't have as much. Anyways, I just finished up my french dark chocolate sea salt bar. If I do have candy, it will be tiny pieces and it won't be any I bought.

Moving on now...

Second resolution I still need to work on, but it is very difficult to stop myself before I react badly to stupid trivial things like how the dishes are done by other people or when I am interrupted from what I am doing.

I have just started picking up on doing my artwork again! I got a painting done in one day, and it happened to be on a bad day. They say your worst times can produce your best work.

My writing however, I really need to get back on track, and it doesn't help that I've started on a role playing game called Game of Thrones Ascent. But I vow to finish my stories because I hate when I find great stories that turn out to be incomplete.

As for moving out...not gonna happen for me anytime soon. But...my sister and her husband will be trying to move as well as my nephew, so at least we'll have more room and my parents will be able to go on more vacations while I stay behind to look after the house. But I do need to plan in case the inevitable happens in the future. I did start a savings account, so at least I have that going. I just need to make deposits more often.

I actually met this last resolution recently! I got my room clean and organized enough to be able to get it clean instantly when thing begin to pile up or is out of place. I do have things on my dresser, but I can easily clear it off. But I'll make sure to remember to do a pre-holiday fall clean-up.

And there we have it! I shall check again on New Years eve and see if I am still on track of these or at least do better on the ones I need to do still.