2024 New Year’s Resolutions

So as detailed in this post, I do my New Year’s Resolutions like Xbox achievements. hrmm, maybe I should assign point values to my resolutions. Get a score going. Thoughts for later. For now, IT’S THE 2024 NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS!

So yeah, it may be February, but two things. 1. The way my resolutions go, I don’t necessarily have to nail them down by the beginning of the year, and 2. I posted them on my facebook at the beginning of January, I just didn’t post it here. So let’s get into them:

1. Use all my Christmas Presents.
So last year, several of my Christmas presents remain in a box and did not interact with them at all. My Sandman comics remain unread, an Ultraman Blu-Ray remains unopened, and just about every video game goes unplayed. I am not ungrateful, these are all things I wanted and wish to use at some point, but with living my life on my phone, I don’t take time away from that to do things like read my comics, watch movies, play video games. So this time around my goal is to use all the items I got for Christmas at least once . . .and I just remembered that I got a pack of hot sauces in my stocking. Damnit. And my wife got me Monopoly. . .double damnit.
So for tracking purposes, here is a list of what I got for Christmas:

• Wrestlemania Monopoly
• Guga: Breaking the Barbecue Rules
• Ninja Foodie XL
• Sous Vide Kit
• Vacuum Sealer
• Cody Rhodes Claim Your Kingdom Ice Shirt
• MJF You’re Not on the Level of the Devil Shirt
• WWE 2K23 PS5
• Bayonetta 3
• Cody Rhodes Shorts
• Wyrd Sisters By Terry Pratchett
• Cody Rhodes Sandals
• LA Knight Let Me Talk To Ya Shirt
• Spider-man Shirt
• Various Hot Sauces
• A BBQ Kit
• A Cheshire Cat Shirt

This will probably be the one I update about most on this list

2. Get an IT Certification.
I have purchased an A+ certification book(twice, digital and hardcopy), I have purchased three different online courses for A+, and I have begun so many podcasts and youtube series. I need to buckle down, study, and pass those tests. I would like to change my career field this year and damnit, I am clever when it comes to computers, but I need to fill in the gaps of what I don’t know and get the certifications to get me into the field. Unfortunately, the tests are expensive, so I want to make sure that when I go to take them, I come correct.

3. Get my kitchen organized.
So along the way, despite my wife and I not cooking much, we have acquired an air fryer, an instapot, 2 crockpots, a sous vide machine, 2 coffee makers, a vacuum sealer, and an electric griddle. Add to that all our pots and pans, and we have like no space for anything. We’ve talked about getting shelves to put this stuff up, but haven’t pulled that trigger. So here is the call for a trigger pull.

4. Dry Age a steak.
So I really got into Guga Foods last year, particularly his dry age experiments. I have been wanting to try a dry aged steak to see how it tastes, but unfortunately, that would cost a good at minimum about $70 for a single steak (at least what I have found around here). According to the videos Guga puts out, you can get an UMAI Bag that enables you to dry age at home in your own everyday fridge. So I finally got a vacuum sealer for Christmas, so I want to try getting an UMAI bag and dry aging a ribeye roast for 35 days. See how it is. This seems to be the cheapest option to get to taste it. Only problem is, I am now convinced that I will end up like Gargamel in that one Robot Chicken Sketch.

5. Go to the gym.
I have had a Planet Fitness membership since October of 2020. I am pretty sure I have been a total of 2 times. I need to get back to working out, because it has not been a part of my life for ages now. I need to go a lot more, but I will take going once as a win in 2024.

6. Complete All the Monthly Challenges on my Apple Watch
So last year I got a fancy shmancy Apple Watch. Since then I have enjoyed the labors of closing my rings and getting the little dopamine hit when it does the fancy spinning rings. I feel my rings are set to a fairly simple standard so that I can reasonably accomplish them day to day with a little effort. Weekdays it is easy due to my day job requiring a fair bit of moving around. Weekends I am a slug. To those not in the know, every month they have a new challenge and you get a little badge if you complete the challenge. Almost like an achievement or a resolution, you might say. My goal is to complete the challenge for each month this year. I also want to try and get the random challenges they do for holidays and such. If I fail to complete the side challenges, I won’t count it as a fail, but I’ll add bonus points(if I work out a point system) for completing the side quests. 

And that is it. I will try to pop back in and update some of these resolutions as I go along. I imagine I will have some updates for the Dry Age Experiment, especially how it works out in the end. I will try and check off the Christmas list one as I go. As this is actually being posted in February, some of these I have already accomplished, but I get paid by the post (No you don’t!), You’re right, I don’t get paid for this, but I like to have a clean, “These are my resolutions” post and then an Update post saying “These are done.” So expect an updated post within like a day or so (or a week, don’t RUSH ME!!), letting you know how I’ve done.

So 2024, HERE WE GO!