New Year's Resolutions

I will:

1. Take one of those Rome tours put on by Rome Accueil (I am a member of the association, after all), no matter how boring I fear that it may turn out to be (my French expat friends tell me that I am crazy not to have attended one yet but come on, can one really enjoy staring at the art of Caravaggio for 90 minutes straight? While listening to a ten minute speech on each painting? In French?).
2. Listen to Italian radio instead of French or English radio (I may have to kill off this resolution, first of all because all I can get on my portable radio is Radio Vatican (no matter what frequency - very bizzarre - the Frenchman says that it is all part of the Catholic Conspiracy), secondly because the Frenchman has insisted on French satellite on our television, and consequently the only satellite radio we get is French radio and BBC World Service, and thirdly because, well, soccer just does not interest me that much).
3. Resist having my collazione (breakfast consisting of cornetto and cappuccino) at the bar every day, thereby saving about 30 euro per month (then again, when in Rome....).
4. No longer purchase one new outfit per week for the Bambina (she currently has a wardrobe that any 16-year old girl would envy).
5. Wear make-up, jewellry and fur trimmed coat when I drop the Bambina off at school every morning, such that staff and parents no longer assume that I am scruffy and unfeminine anglo-saxon mommy but instead just like the other elegant and sexy French or Italian moms (of course, then they hear me talk...).
6. Find the Bambina some English nursery music CDs that she will listen to (the one she has sits neatly on the shelf, untouched after one play. I am slowly facing the fact that English preschool music can't compete with il coccodrillo com'e fa and i due liocorni. Italian children's music is so good, it could be on AM radio).
7. Write a letter to the Economist. The Frenchman hates "that right wing neo-con rag" so lending legitimacy to the publication by getting a letter published in it will annoy him all the more. :)
8. Follow the American presidential election, firstly because, after all, it is history in the making and secondly, so that I will have some other subject to bring up when I become bored at one of the Frenchman's interminable evening company events or when a friend drones on about some obscure store that she has recently discovered in Trastevere (if there is one thing that is more boring than shopping, it is talking about shopping).