Las Vegas Weekly Photo: Shutterstock Geoff Carter Thu, Jan 7, 2021 (1:59 a.m.) Lose weight. Travel more. Less Facebook. Learn to dance; learn another language; learn to play an instrument. At the beginning of every year, many of us make promises to ourselves that we’ll do something big and life-changing in the 12 months to come, and a few of us—very, very few—actually pull it off. But we keep making New Year’s resolutions anyway, perhaps because the rest of New Year’s Eve is pure, boozy abandon, and New Year’s Day essentially one big hangover. How better to give these days meaning than to sit down with drink or aspirin in hand and make a to-do list full of intended hard work?