New Years Resolutions!

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Itโ€™s that time of the year! For me, itโ€™s the time I order another organizational notebook I forget about after a few weeks and shop for cute desk calendars!

But itโ€™s also a time to reflect on what weโ€™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 youโ€™re in that spot this year, thatโ€™s totally ok.

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

I want to learn to skateboard!
 

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Current birds:
John
Snowy
Pippen

Past birds:
Grumpy
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Jeff
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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.
 
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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! Iโ€™m impressed with how aspirational you are.
 

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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!
 
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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!
 

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Iโ€™ve got 4 planted tanks, I call them jungle style as an excuse to be lazy lol!
 
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Iโ€™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! Iโ€™ll have to hunt down the photos I have of mine; it was a 75 gallon. It wasnโ€™t as cool though, haha!

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I had a smaller planted tank for a single beta for a while (it was a 3 or 5 gallon, I donโ€™t recall, in retrospect I wish Iโ€™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 canโ€™t keep up with aquarium maintenance these days though. Plus my kids have a criminal track record for dropping things in the aquariumโ€ฆ

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

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