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How did you and your lover spend New Year's Eve? If you fantasized about seeing the New Year in with sizzling lovemaking, and instead found yourself watching the ball drop on TV as he snored beside you on the couch, maybe it's time to change your perennial lose-five-pounds New Year's resolution. If you resolve to spice up your sexual routine, we'll show you how to keep your resolution, and enjoy a New Year filled with hot nights.

"I like to use the word predictable when talking about long-term sexual relationships," says Joan Elizabeth Lloyd, author of several popular "how-to" books for couples, including Nice Couples Do: How to Turn Your Secret Dreams into Sensational Sex and Come Play With Me: Games and Toys for Creative Lovers. After a few years, couples all too often fall into a lovemaking routine: "on the same night, in the same place, in the same position. And they'd just like something a little bit different."

How do you get something a little bit different — and a little bit more exciting — in bed? Well, it will never happen if you don't speak up, which brings us to our first resolution.