With my recent Christmas insomnia, I’ve been thinking a lot. New Years is coming up and I need to make some changes. My first resolution, with the year ahead, is…..
1. I’m Abandoning Social Media Completed

Gasp! Yes, its true! Bye bye Bebo, Twitter, Facebook, MSN, and any other such leisurely sites and services! They’ve all got to go. Why? I’m heading into the last hurdle of Sixth Year and I spend hours on each of these disasters every day. I’m bordering on addiction and don’t have the willpower to just not visit them. So the only way I can do this is to not be able to access them. I’ve E-mailed Bebo,Twitter and Facebook, asking them to suspend my accounts until June so that I can keep my friends and followers. However, if they don’t reply by New Years Day, I’m just going to cancel them anyway and start all over again in June. Only thing I’ll be keeping is my blog and possibly YouTube. These are dark times…
2. Postpone My Charity Skydive Completed
Again, it has to be done. I’m going to postpone it until June and try and get all my Sixth Year writers to do a charity skydive with me. It gives me the summer to raise as much money as possible, the weather will (hopefully) be nicer, and I’ll be able to get more people to join me!
3. Get Glasses Completed
My eyesight has been getting worse and worse and it has come to the stage where I can’t read the board in school. I’ve been putting it off for a while, but I intend to get my vision back ASAP!
4. Visit The Dentist
I haven’t gone to the dentist in years, and I chipped a tooth last JUNE! Like the glasses, its been put on the back-burner for too long and I badly need a trip to the dentist
5. Cheer Up
I’ve noticed that I’m not as happy as I was during the summer. Summer ’09 was the best 3 months of my life, and Sixth Year has taken a big chunk of happiness out of me. I need to find some new hobbies and people that make me really happy, and work off that energy. For some reason,I’ve become really socially-awkward this year aswell, and I’ve become a right introvert. My positive attitude is diminishing, but I’m going to focus on getting it back

6. Study
I’ve not done a tap of extra study in Sixth Year, and I really want to do my best in the Leaving Cert. Going to start a study plan this week. It just HAS to be done
7. Learn To Play Guitar!
I’ve been putting this off for years! I SHALL learn a musical instrument this year!
8. Get Driving
I’ve my theory test passed with months so I need to go get my provisional licence. I need to get some driving lessons and apply for my full test ASAP!
Hope you all have a good new year
-Ian

Best of luck for 2010, Ian! Looking forward to seeing you online again once the LC is over.
Thanks Jack, I’ll still be blogging away here anyway. I just spend entire days on social networks and its such a distraction. It’ll be nice to start with a clean slate heading into college anyway
Best of luck Ian, get your ass back on twitter in June!
Nessy x
JUst when you’ve made it onto Damien’s ‘Ones to watch in 2010‘ list.
Good luck with the studies!
Ah thanks guys. I’ve been off it 5 hours and cold turkey is hard! I don’t mind Facebook or Bebo,but Twitter is hard!
If you don’t have yourself a guitar yet, get that one crossed off your list and drop into Jimmy to arrange something. Heading into the leaving cert I kept a guitar in the room and the first two years of company setup I kept a guitar in the office… great for teasing out the few issues.
I have an electric one with ages, but I must pick up an acoustic…
cool blog. Want advice?? Study in 6th year, even now when you think its too late, its not, this is the sweet spot, study now for 3 hard months and cruise the rest of life… trust me, I did.
Learn an instrument, I did this year and its great, a real change from the usual stuff I’m into! Find one you like and get stuck in.
Cheer up, sixth year sucks ass. It really does. But next year as a first year in College or out working… you are going to have a total ball… provided you study, see point 1. People say school years are the best etc? Its bollox. They dont know what the modern LC is like. They all left when they had done the Inter
DeV.
Thanks for the advice!