At the beginning of the year, I made some resolutions. I had intended to write an update at the one month mark, but procrastination took over until the timing was no longer relevant. So, as February comes to an end, I decided to do a two month update instead. Let’s see how they’re going…
#1: FINISH ACQUIRING ALL VOLUMES FOR INCOMPLETE SERIES I’ve got a lot of series that I’ve been buying this year, and many have gaps. I’d like to get those gaps filled before I switch to a “Complete Collections Only (well, mostly)” policy.
This one went well. It was probably the easiest to do since I really didn’t have to change my habits much. I managed to fill in the gaps for R.O.D. The TV series, Gad Guard, Fafner, and Spiral (to name a few). There’s still a few with gaps to fill, but I’m in no hurry at the moment.
#2: NO MORE BLIND-BUYING I have blindly (never seen before; little to no knowledge of) bought more DVDs this year than any year before. For obvious financial reasons, this is not a good way to go about things. I need to drastically reduce my spending before something really bad happens. Besides, with services like Netflix and Rent Anime at my disposal, it should be much easier to make more informed purchases.
This one has been going surprisingly well. I’ve managed to avoid buying anything I haven’t previously sampled, and my TRSI orders have gone way down. Unfortunately, RentAnime had to become a casualty of finance, and was sadly canceled. Netflix may need to be axed, too.
#3: WATCH/READ MORE, BUY LESS This ties in to resolution #2. I’ve acquired a massive backlog of both anime and manga this year. My room looks like a mini TRSI warehouse! I need to actually start watching all the stuff I’ve bought, and concentrate less on acquiring more stuff.
Ugh. I’ve been failing hardcore on this one. My anime watching has practically tapered off to nothing, and my manga reading is as sparse as it ever was. This is something I definitely need to work on. Luckily, I can watch videos on FUNimation’s site during my lunch breaks, so I’ve been following Ouran High School Host Club this week. I’ll probably watch all that’s available and then move on to a different series.
#4: FOLLOW WINTER SEASON OF SHOWS I wouldn’t mind dabbling in episodic blogging, but in order to do that, I need to pay closer attention to current series. Besides, a new Fighting Spirit series starts this month.
Another failed resolution. I’ve only watched one episode of Ippo so far. 
#5: WRITE BETTER BLOG ENTRIES I know my entries could use a lot of work, and I realize that my writing doesn’t seem to encourage a lot of comments from most of the viewers/readers that come across this site. I’d like to be able to increase the traffic and interactivity of this site within the aniblogging community, so I’ll be working on posts that don’t suck so much.
Seeing as how I haven’t posted much at all, I’ve gotta admit failure on this one, too.
There’s definitely more work to be done.
