New year, new blog title?

I was thinking of changing the title of my blog for the new year:

OMG, why didn't somebody tell me I'm obese?

But, I really like Caution: Irritability, so I'll keep it.

I think it's natural to want to make changes when a new year approaches. Most people I know start talking the last week of December about how the coming year is going to be different. THIS is going to be the year that we will work less/weigh less/owe less, etc.

I've got my own grand ideas for the coming year. For starters, I'm going to distance myself from my family (yeah, right). I've been thinking that the easiest way to do this is to over schedule myself and either volunteer, get a part time job or move out of state. How about just saying "I'm sorry, Mom, I can't come to your house for dinner more than one night a week because I'm busy." Based on a lot of my interactions with family, you'd have no idea that I am 32 years old and fairly independent.

Second, I'm going to starve myself and work out until I lose a whole bunch of weight. Right, because that has worked so well in the past. I should start with consistent work outs and not eating like garbage.

Third, I am going to study. The way things work now, I pretty much throw together essays at the last minute and cram for tests the night before. I've got an overall GPA of 3.6 with this method, but the classes really aren't that hard either. I need to reestablish some study skills before the classes start kicking my ass.

I could go on and on about all the things I plan to do differently. Making resolutions this way is just setting myself up for failure, though. A year from now I'd be right back here (heaven forbid), wondering where the last year went so quickly and why I wasn't able to change anything.

This blog post kind of started that way. The thing is, I did change last year. I'm different, and even if those changes aren't visible they are still pretty cool. I'll spare you the "Kumbayah"
bullshit.

This brings me to my real resolution for the year: I am going to be nicer to myself.