APPARENTLY research shows that you should only make resolutions after having a nice epiphany on a nice holiday. But it’s Lunar New Year on Saturday, and Liz only just went back to work last week, so it seems like a good arbitrary time to talk about things we’d like to do as individuals (and a blog) over the coming months.

Post features pictures of cats.

Liz:

• Cook more
• Better sleep hygiene
• Pay off some debt
• Stop worrying about US politics, channel energy into local activism
• Cuddle more cats
• Punch more Nazis
• Get a new Australian book from the library each time I go (currently reading: The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke, spoilers, it’s really good)
• Return library books on time
• Watch more classic movies
• Start a podcast
• Eat less meat
• Wash dishes more often
• Support more Patreons

Steph:

• Buy less clothes
• Except when I need them, in which case, try and save up for v good quality clothes
• Darn my socks
• Socialise mindfully
• Rewatch The Pretender
• Don’t lie in bed scrolling Twitter which leads to getting mad before sleeping
• Tidy my FB friends list
• Attend the Women’s Big Bash and Women’s AFL games as much as possible
• Put things away more often
• Read a POC travelogue a month
• Drink more water
• Paint lots
• Be in an art show

No Award:

• Focus on regional, domestic and local activism
• Try not to get too distracted by US politics
• Focus on regional, domestic and local pop culture; try not to get too distracted by Eurocentric business unless it’s relevant to the NA mission
• Steph promises to write her posts when she promises them to Liz and not two months later
• Liz promises to contribute more to linkspam and not make Stephanie do all the work
• Is this the year we’ll finally do No Award: The Podcast?
• Or set up the Patreon we swore we’d launch in January 2016?