New Years Resolutions!

[ravvlet]

It’s that time of the year! For me, it’s the time I order another organizational notebook I forget about after a few weeks and shop for cute desk calendars!

But it’s also a time to reflect on what we’d like to achieve or improve upon in the new year. I really hate this question some years - sometimes the previous year was so hard or overwhelming that the idea of making new promises is too much! If you’re in that spot this year, that’s totally ok.

I think for me - it feels like there’s a lot of things I’d like to do! But for me, setting something always makes it feel like work, so I’m going to pick something fun.

I want to learn to skateboard!

 

[BirdyBee]

Here's mine:

Learn a new language

Be a better owner for my birds

Make more time for myself

Do more art and other stuff I enjoy

That's all I can think of right now.

 

[ravvlet]

Here's mine:

Learn a new language

Be a better owner for my birds

Make more time for myself

Do more art and other stuff I enjoy

That's all I can think of right now.

These are really great Pip! I’m impressed with how aspirational you are.

 

[zERo]

I don't typically make new years resolutions, I just make rules or things I need to improve upon when needed, otherwise I might not be as commited.

I guess I can come up with a few...

Staying on top of my aquarium plants when they need trimming! I do it about once a month BUT certain plants need it like once a week (I'm looking at you Pearlweed!)

This is one I REALLY need to do and be more on top of! Weighing my birds!

Finishing all the books I'm in the middle of! Right now it's up to 6 or 7.

I have more less self focused ones too but too lazy to type!

 

[ravvlet]

Oh man, I have that same problem with books.

I love live planted aquariums! Do you have photos somewhere? That sounds really cool. I once used duckweed as cover for an axolotl tank, that stuff got out of hand very quickly, haha. I wanted areas to be shady but I also wanted to use plant lights to encourage ground cover plants to spread, it sort of worked. I also had a ceramic turtle shell I covered with a hair net and grew Java moss on!

 

[zERo]

 

[zERo]

I’ve got 4 planted tanks, I call them jungle style as an excuse to be lazy lol!

 

[ravvlet]

I’ve got 4 planted tanks, I call them jungle style as an excuse to be lazy lol!

Those are gorgeous! I really love the first one especially! I’ll have to hunt down the photos I have of mine; it was a 75 gallon. It wasn’t as cool though, haha!

I had a smaller planted tank for a single beta for a while (it was a 3 or 5 gallon, I don’t recall, in retrospect I wish I’d chosen something larger but it did have a filtration system and heater) once we were living in apartments and I could no longer have the big ones! I find I can’t keep up with aquarium maintenance these days though. Plus my kids have a criminal track record for dropping things in the aquarium…

 

[zERo]

Very nice! Planted tanks are so cool because they're SO much more forgiving! Very pretty betta!

 

[Rico_Tiel]

1. Don’t die

2. Don’t disappear into the forest (negotiable)