Just because I’ve never kept a New Year’s resolution doesn’t mean I can’t continue to make them. In 2012, I resolve to:
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Develop a healthy late-night addiction, like novel-writing
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Now that I know how to receive a text, learn how to send one
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Become reacquainted with vegetables
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Attend Mexican wrestling matches more often
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Fire myself from my detective agency, so I can collect unemployment
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Buy a paella dish and learn how to make it
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Accept every writing assignment that comes my way
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Be first in line when Skrine Chops reopens
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Donate something besides matzo ball soup to the food pantry
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Write a history of Forest Park
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Play chess more often
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Pre-eat before going to restaurants to free up my mouth for drinking and talking
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Finally get the low-down on Forest Park’s haunted Victorian
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Find out if my late aunt’s hideous lamp might be a priceless antique
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Complete the first draft of a Haymarket play by May Day
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Read to my grandson – he just loves the Tribune business section
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Get some help for my out-of-control grocery-shopping habit
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Find my reading glasses
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Watch every Bulls game in its entirety, no matter how big their lead is
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Finally gain that elusive 10 pounds
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Quit at the top of my game by abandoning my career as a concert pianist
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Find a teaching job that only requires a GED
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Revive the internationally acclaimed Forest Park History Tour
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Always be there to help out my family and my editor
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Learn how to shower in the dark, or get bathroom light switch replaced
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Check with adult daughter, before discarding her “blankie.” It still has some soothing silky border left
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Break-in new arctic boots
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Hire someone else to teach the teenager to drive
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Take a real vacation, as opposed to a long weekend
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Add some swing to the Sabbath, by attending big band jazz on Sunday nights at FitzGerald’s
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Re-read my favorite book The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody
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Help residents with their history inquiries
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Shop and dine in Forest Park whenever possible, depending on the specials
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Learn to type with all 10 fingers, or take early retirement with carpal tunnel syndrome.