Challenges / Old Year Resolutions

Plain and simple, as title suggests, the following is a list of challenges I will be tackling. Inspired by scribbleboy. I'll be blogging my progress under each topic in the future.

Like scribbleboy, I welcome any suggestions for challenges, just leave a comment and I'll do a feasibility study and add it to the list depending on results.

1. Blog regularly (at least weekly)
   This is the official challenge I've set myself, after making a pact with hexx0r. Point is to exercise my writing abilities, rather than just musing over other people's wit and intellect with envy.
   
   
2. Learn to Drum (by end 2010)
   Ok, so one's ability to drum is highly subjective, but sometimes you can just tell when someone can drum. I'm not putting down "take drumming lessons" because I know it's not a realistic for me for a while yet. I guess this whole thing is a bit of a long term goal!
   
   
3. Learn Sign Language (by end 2011)
   My fascination with sign language probably stemmed from all the late night tv I watched when bed-time was anywhere from 12midnight to 11pm.
   I later learnt from a couple of friends further benefits of sign language, and there's no excuse considering how my friends I now know who knows sign language!
   
   
4. Take more photos (at least monthly)
   So I splashed out £450 for myself last Christmas, and have been hiding behind my camera at every opportune moment since. Point is, I paid for the damn thing, I need to take more photos to make the purchase worthwhile!
   
   
5. Talk to people at parties (depending on how many parties I go to)
   While I intend to maintain the above challenge, I really oughta socialise more when going to parties. I think I spoke to a whole of 5 people at the last party when I had my camera, 2 of whom are my best friends... Not cool!
   
   
6. Go to soical meetups (at least twice a month)
   Meetup.com is such a wonderful site, allowing people to organise social meetups, meeting new people and all that.
   I discovered it after coming across an ad on gumtree back in March, nearly didn't go to the first meetup, but sure glad I did. I'd since made numerous new friends, and joined additional social groups. The key is to keep attending these meetings!
   
   
7. Improve my diet (by end of August)
   For various reasons I stopped eating 3 meals a day towards the end of April, sometimes going for days without food. Not exactly clever for someone of my petite figure! I'm currently on two meals a day at best, but the goal is to go back to 3 a day, as well as going beyond porridge and pasta.
   
   
8. Watch more films at the cinema (4 a month)
   TWKM knows I've got an unlimited cinema pass, which for your information, I have to pay for... so no, I'm not buying your ticket! Still, sometimes I get too lazy to go to the cinema, even when there're interesting films on. So to make the most of my past, my goal is to see at least 4 films at Cineworld a month. I welcome anyone who's interested in joining me :)
   
   
9. Talk to my friend's friends (ongoing)
   I've been fortunate enough to have many wonderful friends, who in turn have many wonderful friends themselves. I recently realised that friends of friends are just friends in the making, so expect random pokes from me if you're on my Facebook!
   
   
10. Answer random ads on gumtree / similar site and post results (once a week)
    After answering to a York Blog ad earlier this week, I decided this would be another interesting challenge to myself.
    These will either be serious, like contacting fellow film makers, or silly like the aforementioned York Blog.