I know, I know...it's a little late to work on a resolution list for the year now that we're a whole month into the 2023, but have we considered a trial month just to see what you could possibly want to achieve by the end? Think of it like a trial to your gym membership, but for the year. It sounds far fetched, but here's to my 2023 resolution with a trial month in mind.

I WANT TO FINISH MY RINGFIT ADVENTURE

So instead of making losing weight a goal for the year, I'd like to give it a twist by pledging to finish the Nintendo Ringfit Adventure game by the end of 2023. For those who have no idea, it's essentially a video game where you have to workout to "unalive" some monsters, turning painful workouts into something slightly satisfying and fun. I'd actually progressed quite a bit when we were still at our old studio, but having to move our furniture around DAILY just to play the game felt pretty irritating after 3 months. 

Good luck to the monsters and I for 2023, I guess! 

I WANT US TO BE DONE WITH TURNING OUR HOUSE INTO A HOME

It's so weird that my better half and I have moved for close to 6 months now and I've even come up with a blog post to talk about the 5 things I learned about moving in Amsterdam, only to realize we're still not quite there with completing our home. These are mainly things like having to move our belongings down to the storage and setting up IKEA furniture, then learning along the way that we'd need a coat hanger (only to find out we need an even bigger coat hanger), but here's hoping we'll get there at the end of the year. Check back in December to see how far I've gone on this and if IKEA has taken even more of my salary! 

I WANT TO BE ABLE TO CONVERSE IN DUTCH

This year marks the fourth year since we've left home for Amsterdam, and while I'm glad we can understand bits and pieces everywhere, I'd love for us to be able to hold a conversation in Dutch properly. We've tried a lot of methods throughout the years but there were a ton of starts and stops with this language barrier - losing my job and having to live through 2 years a Covid lockdown did not help. Will I actually make it this year so I can do my Dutch integration examination by the time 2024 rolls over? I sure hope so, but we'll see! 

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And that's it! Three resolutions may not feel like a lot for a year that could be filled with so many unknown adventures, but that's exactly what I want for 2023 to be. A year where we'll just try new things, do stuff without planning them out, and hopefully I'll have quite the tale to tell at year end. Happy belated New Year, my dear friends.