My New Year’s Resolutions for 2009
Here they are, in no particular order:
1. Meet my dad live in person.
2. Compete in a bodybuilding contest.
3. Become a community emergency response technician for the City of Los Angeles.
4. Get complete at the dentist, and rotate my tires.
5. Take an international trip with Bronson.
6. Learn conversational French.
7. Interview Arnold Schwarzenegger
8. Pay off three credit cards.
9. Re-learn how to snowboard.
10. Get behind a cause.
I decided on a bodybuilding contest (instead of a triathlon, yet) because it’s something I’ve always wanted to do, largely because it scares the hell out of me. I’m also thinking, how cool would it be to actually combine some of these resolutions? For example, competing in a bodybuilding contest in which Arnold is an honorary judge and interviewing him afterward, or practicing conversational French while snowboarding in Canada with Bronson?
December 31st, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Such glorious goals for the new year! Tremendous possibilities and the refusal of entrenched ideas and attitudes mark the beginning of a wondrous era, replete with the principles of “creative noveau” as Hammersmith says, the happiest to you and yours, the Page boys!
January 5th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
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January 7th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Sam, you gotta give the tri a try.
A former drowning accident victim like me can swim 1.2 miles in the ocean, any one can. Deep water used to freak me out until I finally confronted my fears.
I think you will get A LOT out of it. And if scares you…it’s even a bigger reason to do it.
You always had the knack of turning “what if” to “you can”.
January 7th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
Thanks for the encouragement. I haven’t ruled out doing a tri this year. Competing in a triathlon and a bodybuilding competition are my top two physical fitness goals. And they both scare me! I decided to focus on the bodybuilding contest first (mid-June) because I’ll be able to focus 100% on losing as much body fat as possible through disciplined nutrition.
January 8th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
I am in for snowboarding!
February 5th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
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