So here we are in the new year, and it is time for my obligatory post where I look back on the previous year, and detail my plans and resolutions for the new year. In order to save time, I should point out here that this post is likely to be very much the same as posts from previous years, and similar to posts at this time from other blogs floating about, with the exception that other people tend to lead lives where things actually happen.
First of all to look back at the last year.
I suppose on paper, and from an outside perspective there would seem to be an adequate amount of activity in my life for the last year, after all there was a child of mine produced during this time. For me personally, however, it seems like I didn’t do much of anything. I bought some stuff. I remember that. I went on a pretty long vacation, and that was nice. Really though, it seems like I didn’t get all that much done. There were numerous things I could have done, and even wanted to do, but it seems like I always felt tired or just ran out of time and ambition to finish projects. I wrote almost nothing, built very little (so little as to be considered nothing), and didn’t progress mentally of physically.
I would have some top ten lists of thing like movies or music or events or concerts or other things, but as I explained above, I did nothing and therefore can report on nothing.
So that was my last year. I’m not sad about it or anything, but I think it is a little lame to have entire years pass where you look back and can’t really identify progress you have made. Each year is a waste of something like one-and-a-half percent of my total like (if I’m lucky).
On to the coming year.
There is much that I would like to get out of the new year, just like every other year. I suppose these things will take the form of resolutions, but they are just hopes and plans. I have no way to judge if any of these have more of a chance at succeeding this year than any other, though I suspect that they do not.
Fist off comes the normal grab bag of run of the mill resolutions. We will include here the Lose Weight, Eat Healthy Foods, Exercise, Keep the House Clean, and Organize Life (as a catch all) resolutions to this list. These are the standards, and though I am just lumping them together here, my plan is to take each of them seriously and try to obtain all of them. I have specific plans for each of these, but I won’t bore you with the details of them here. I’m sure if you wanted to find my plans, surprisingly similar ones can be found littering my archives.
In addition to these standard resolutions, I would like to add a couple more this year (because the standard ones should be so achievable that I will have extra time and energy to pursue other things).
I want to dramatically expand the amount I write. I’m not that good a writer, and I have little hope of ever becoming a good writer, but I do enjoy it when I do it, so I would like to do more of it. In addition to increasing the amount that I update this site to at least twice a week (modest enough to achieve)(I have noticed that my writing here is more in the journal of the events in my life vein, and less if the what the fuck is he talking about vein. My plan is to do more of the latter and less of the former)(also I’d really like to increase my use of parenthesis), I would like to get to work on one crappy novel, a children’s story (in epic form) for my child, and perhaps another play. The plan is for all of these to amuse me, and to never be published, except possibly through this site. As such there is little pressure to actually produce real quality, and I should be able to as least make some progress. I know that resolutions are supposed to be specific and attainable to work, but mine are vague and expansive. So lump it.
My yard is something of a mess, so I resolve to start gardening as a regular activity in 2008. I need to read up on the topic and figure out what kinds of things would be a good idea for this area, and my yard specifically. Nothing too complicated to start, but it would be nice if my house looked less abandoned.
I want to buy less stuff this year. I bought too much last year, and I failed to save any money. That is a little too irresponsible for my new position as head (hah!) of a household.
I think I will throw in the resolution of finishing the projects I start. Even if they are just fun ones for myself, I think it is important to actually get some of them done so that I can feel like I am getting something done.
I think that that is enough for the upcoming year. Stay tuned to this bat-station for updates on the exact dates that I fail in each of these plans.
