New Year's Resolutions

When I was growing up, my mother would faithfully the first of every January sit down and come up with five resolutions for herself for the coming year. Aspirations for achievement. One which always made its way onto her list was to be more patient with the kids. So, of course, we kids copied her for a while (making a list, not the patience bit), into adulthood.

Now, I stopped doing New years Resolutions well over a decade ago, figuring one couldn't improve on perfection.

But as I arrive at five years of writing this blog and the live(s) it has chronicled, maybe--just maybe--perfection could use some tweaking.

But "tweak" seems to have morphed into definitions never really intended by the English language. Here's what Wikipedia (which could really use your contribution, BTW) has to say on the matter:

The Evolution of Tweak and it's Various Verbal Meanings:
1. Tweak- to touch something up, fiddle with the finishing touches or make tiny little changes.
2. Tweak- To perfect in an Obsessive/Compulsive Disorder-ish way
3. Tweak- Little over-caffinated kid with various bizarre nervous-tics who lives in South Park
4. Tweak- To be on some type of speed and be any/all of the following:
--Highly aggitated, wide eyed, and angry/overly irritable
--To be as paranoid in a mouselike manner; rapid breathing, weird twitchy and/or panic-ey movements/responses
--To be euphoric as a motherfucker whilst on some type of upper( which is usually taken in a rather large amount to induce such energized and super-human like euphoric oddness)
--Just really fucking cracked out, in any way, as long as its super conspicuously performed behavior that is commonly associated with crackheads/random speed-heads
--To be using or experiencing some feeling or difference caused by the use of Methamphetamines

EXAMPLES OF USE:
1. " I just gotta tweak a little bit here and there and it will be perfect."
2. "I just gotta tweak this and THIS AND THIS AND THIS and this and OHH NO now this..."
3.How do I make an example of this? If you don't watch the fucking show, what does the example matter to your familiarity?
4. "Dude your fucking twitching and grinding your teeth like a goddamned crackhead, wouldya quit pacin' around freaking about shit all quarter-eyed like that?"
::shaking, wide-eyed in the corner, head tucked behind huddled knees:: "Icantcomeout--gassp. Thh-thhuah--THEYLL GET ME!"::
"OH-MY-GOD- YOUGUYSWATCHICANRUN - AND! - READTHISBOOK -ATTHESAMETIME! WITHOUT RUNNINGINTOSTUFFHOLYCRAP! I'm god." ::scampers about rapidly, limbs a-flurry and a manic smile plastered to their face::
"Dude, seriously, it's probably just because you're a meth-head"

And I'll let you decide which use of the word is appropriate for me in this situation.