The World Doesn't Resolve Around Me

First things first, the message on the top of last week's post was supposed to say "Merry Christmas."  However, I messed things up a little, by not previewing it first.  I am truly sorry for how that didn't work out.  I will resolve to do better in the coming year.  This will pretty much be the only resolution I will make, as I don't really make New Year's resolutions.  Oh, I try to improve my life, but it is more of a year-round thing, and not something I try to force upon myself just because it is January first.  This is not just a random thing, either.  I pick up and discard improvements throughout the year.  I am always trying to eat better, exercise more, and quit bad habits while trying to start new good ones.  I understand the importance of starting new things at the start of a new year, but it just never seems to work out the best for me when I do.  For instance, I used to plan up to an entire month trying new food/recipes.  Sometimes, I would limit myself to just one week, if I couldn't find enough new foods ahead of time.  After a few years of this, I just kind of stopped.  Finding entirely new foods was almost impossible, and even just trying new products and recipes was becoming a challenge.  Now, I just try things when I see them.  Mostly, they are new varieties of things I already buy or get.  This gets tiring, especially when this means that products I do like are discontinued.  I have gone through over a dozen different flavors/brands of cereal and snack bars over the years, only to see the one I don't like still on the shelves while my favorites disappear.  Exercise is just the same.  I have lists of hundreds of different exercises, the majority of them I have never attempted.  I rely on a core (bad pun) group of a few dozen that I rotate through, with a little variation here and there, with the biggest changes coming in weight lifted and for how many times.  For example, this past weekend I did unilateral presses at 120 pounds for twenty total reps over three sets.  I wasn't even planning on so many, but I felt I could go all the way and I did.  My bad habits are trickier.  I try to change them as after as I can, to various levels of success.  After decades, I have all but stopped biting my nails, although I still have trouble with two fingers on my  left hand for some reason.  I even try to improve my good habits.  Typing is apparently not one of them, as I have made multiple mistakes just today.  I have corrected them, but I just seem to be hitting the wrong keys and I cannot blame the keyboard for most of them.  However,  this keyboard does have quite a few keys that are sticking.  Anyway, I will try to improve my life next year; I just won't announce how I will be doing it.