New Year’s resolutions are stupid

Tomorrow I am going to go to the gym.

I know: I am a cliche! I have made the world’s most tedious resolution. And I don’t even believe in making resolutions in the first place, let alone the world’s most tedious one. (I am perpetually writing lists of things I will not achieve, it is not a special once-yearly-treat for Superfiona, oh no! I finish each day with a sense of failure at the number of things I can’t cross off my list!)

But now I find myself sitting here, a staunch unbeliever in such rubbish – with ‘exercise more’ as my New Year’s resolution, 3 months of gym membership, a dodgy photo on my gym card (MY FRINGE!!! What am I going to do about my fringe!??!!) – and £103 less in my bank account.

(I will just add a little disclaimer here to say: It is a birthday present. I have used up my 25th birthday present with 3 months of gym membership. Internets, please send cake and Proper Presents like booze.)

Ergh. I have meant to join the gym for a while now, honest. But now I have joined on January 4th, it looks all resolution-y and ghastly. Every time I mention the fact that I am joining the gym, I have to add a little disclaimer about my belief that resolutions are ridiculous and probably invented by gyms themselves, that really honestly I wanted to join for ages but haven’t quite got around to it and couldn’t afford it but now it’s a birthday present I can afford it, okay? (And by the end of all that, the gym-lady is quite bored, I’m sure.)

So, yes: it is the beginning of January, resolutions are stupid, and this one particularly so because everybody makes it. Doomed to fail.

But, on the other hand, it is January and therefore I am similarly doomed to fall into a pit of despair and never ending cold anyway. So I may as well try and prevent it with some going to the gym, right?

Wish me luck.

Oh, and also, I intend to go to the gym before work. So I’d quadruple the amount of luck you were planning on wishing me.

Finally: I am really hoping that the thing people say about exercise giving you more energy turns out to be true, because the 14 month old Hallam does not sleep through the night ever. At all.