Reviewing New Year's Resolutions

I think this is a good time to review my new year's resolutions:

1.  Be Healthy:  (Both watching what I eat and exercising)

This was a miserable failure so far. 

2.  Read 2 books a week:  

This was a 'half' failure.  I realized that it's just too difficult to read two books a week without sacrificing a lot of what I enjoy doing.  I shall read just one book a week now. 

3.  Learn another language.  

Again, a complete failure.  I studied Japanese for about 2 weeks.

4.  Expand my vocab.  

Can you guess the result?

What this complete failure of 'internal' policies indicates is that habits are incredibly difficult to change, especially if you're an old man like I am.  The first step of keeping my new year's resolution should begin with identifying an undesirable & time wasting habit, not by listing desirable habits.  My undesirable and time-wasting habit is droning on the internet (I think that expression is wrong but oh well).

I had criticized people who mindlessly switch channels while watching tv, but in all honesty, that is exactly what I do on the internet.  I don't really read on the internet, I just drone. 

(At this point, I feel a compulsive need to look up the word drone.  the second definition of the verb drone, in Merriam & Webster's dictionary, is:

:to pass, proceed, or act in a dull, drowsy, or indifferent manner.  So I guess 'to drone on the internet,' is not a grammatically incorrect sentence, although it does sound awkward.  Drone on the internet.  Drone on the internet.  Drone on the internet.  It does sound weird.

As a transitive verb, the second definition is:

: to pass or spend in dull or monotonous activity or in idleness.  Okay, this one I was sure of.  I just drone.

But anyways, I have an internet addiction problem that I need to address.  I think I wrote about this already, but when my mom came over and I let her watch Korean dramas on my laptop.  Two things I realized was: 1. I had so much time on my hands that I didn't know what to do.  2. I felt like quitting cigarettes, just not as intense. 


...I would also say, 'blog more often,' but that's completely against my less internet policy.