New Year's Resolutions
Alright -- it's almost 10:30 in the evening. I've left the house only once today, to go to Taco Bell. We did not move mountains today. Unless said mountains include laundry, in which case we did move mountains, as there was a buttload of stuff to be washed and it has all been washed, dried and put away.
Not exactly what I was hoping for, but it's a start.
I just spent the last 3 hours trying to figure out WTF the problem is with my stepdaughter's iPod Nano. In the immortal words of Ed Grimley, it's making me mental. I had to uninstall and reinstall the software, and I got the dang thing to show up in iTunes but couldn't get the music to transfer. Drag & drop just wasn't happening. Then I had to upgrade the software, which allowed me to play the stuff that was downloaded, but then it wouldn't recognize the Nano. For the love of GOD, it shouldn't be this difficult! I'm gonna have to deal with some customer service fuck in India, I just know it. Anyway, I've given up on that for the night. I want to do some things around here and we've been drinking champagne so I'm not exactly all crystal clear right now, ya know?
So about the resolutions. I still haven't really sat and thought about what I want to accomplish, but I'm going to fly by the seat of my pants and come up with some honest-to-God resolutions for 2006. Here goes:
1. I will make an effort to not only stay in touch with friends, but to get together with friends and not take the wuss way out when I get invitations. I will show up, rearrange my schedule to make myself available, and more importantly I will go out of my way to throw little (or not so little) parties myself in order to get people together. I will not assume that people will always be there! Sometimes you just have to tell the laundry and house work to fuck off and have friends over. I shall make it so.
2. I will go to the gym at least 3 times a week. AT LEAST. There simply is no other way. I love to cook, and eat, and drink, and it ain't gonna change. Therefore, working out is the only way to accommodate that. I know damned well that I feel better all the away around when I make time to exercise, and I'm out of excuses. Everything else is going pretty well, and I need to get my ass into the gym. Period. I think I'm gonna start reporting to my blog the days I work out. THAT oughta help!
3. Get the finances in order. Do all the things I keep telling myself I need to do, but keep putting off. Have wills drafted, upgrade some of our insurances, commit to a certain amount of savings every month, etc. There's just no way around it.
4. Read a book a month. Just one! My magazines are piling up, which is sad, and which needs to be rectified, but there are so many books out there begging to be read. I'm gonna do it. Just an hour or so a day is all I need. I need to give myself that.
5. Make plans to travel to all the places I've always wanted to go to, but have yet to get to. Hawaii is on this year's list. I have yet to go to New York City, and I really want to do that. I'd like to go to Tahiti, Ireland, England, Italy, Australia, and a few more places in Mexico, as well as Canada. I'm 34 years old now and I'm just not satisfied with the fact that I've traveled around California, and to a few places in Mexico, and to Boston -- and that's really the extent of it. I mean really -- Reno, Tahoe, and Vegas don't really count. Though I'd really like to go to Vegas again. It's been WAY too long! The point of this is there have been several years where I haven't gone anywhere and though traveling is expensive, I have to work it into the budget. I have to. I like to travel, and see new places, and I haven't done nearly enough to satisfy that desire. I'm going to make it a priority.
6. Invest a significant amount of time in my new position at work -- I know I can't just coast now, and I need to take this opportunity to wow some people. I've finally been given a chance to do something suited to my personality and interests. So I gotta take it, run with it, and not fuck it up!
Like I said, this was off the top of my head. I will probably have to revisit it and re-tool it, but I figure it's a good start. My blogiversary is in a few days, so that'll be a good time to shore up my list and set it in stone.
Oh, and my unofficial resolution is to dive back into music -- I love it so much -- and not wait forever and ever to buy CDs. I've been loving it so much lately, buying all these CDs and listening to them all day at work. I can't believe how much I've missed it! I was just so tired of the radio -- I haven't listened to the radio in weeks, and I like it that way!
I think, in reviewing my off-the-cuff list, that what's happening is I'm getting back to the things that are important to me. I pushed a lot of stuff off when the husband and I got together, and though it probably sounds cliche, I feel like I kind of lost myself. And at some point I decided, "to hell with that!" It's still my life, and I'm not going to waste anymore time doing only what everyone else expects of me. I want to do what I want to do. So 2006 is gonna be my year. I'm not saying I'm gonna blow everyone else off, but I'm not going to make myself last on the list anymore. Nope, I'm gonna do what I want to do.
I can't wait!
Not exactly what I was hoping for, but it's a start.
I just spent the last 3 hours trying to figure out WTF the problem is with my stepdaughter's iPod Nano. In the immortal words of Ed Grimley, it's making me mental. I had to uninstall and reinstall the software, and I got the dang thing to show up in iTunes but couldn't get the music to transfer. Drag & drop just wasn't happening. Then I had to upgrade the software, which allowed me to play the stuff that was downloaded, but then it wouldn't recognize the Nano. For the love of GOD, it shouldn't be this difficult! I'm gonna have to deal with some customer service fuck in India, I just know it. Anyway, I've given up on that for the night. I want to do some things around here and we've been drinking champagne so I'm not exactly all crystal clear right now, ya know?
So about the resolutions. I still haven't really sat and thought about what I want to accomplish, but I'm going to fly by the seat of my pants and come up with some honest-to-God resolutions for 2006. Here goes:
1. I will make an effort to not only stay in touch with friends, but to get together with friends and not take the wuss way out when I get invitations. I will show up, rearrange my schedule to make myself available, and more importantly I will go out of my way to throw little (or not so little) parties myself in order to get people together. I will not assume that people will always be there! Sometimes you just have to tell the laundry and house work to fuck off and have friends over. I shall make it so.
2. I will go to the gym at least 3 times a week. AT LEAST. There simply is no other way. I love to cook, and eat, and drink, and it ain't gonna change. Therefore, working out is the only way to accommodate that. I know damned well that I feel better all the away around when I make time to exercise, and I'm out of excuses. Everything else is going pretty well, and I need to get my ass into the gym. Period. I think I'm gonna start reporting to my blog the days I work out. THAT oughta help!
3. Get the finances in order. Do all the things I keep telling myself I need to do, but keep putting off. Have wills drafted, upgrade some of our insurances, commit to a certain amount of savings every month, etc. There's just no way around it.
4. Read a book a month. Just one! My magazines are piling up, which is sad, and which needs to be rectified, but there are so many books out there begging to be read. I'm gonna do it. Just an hour or so a day is all I need. I need to give myself that.
5. Make plans to travel to all the places I've always wanted to go to, but have yet to get to. Hawaii is on this year's list. I have yet to go to New York City, and I really want to do that. I'd like to go to Tahiti, Ireland, England, Italy, Australia, and a few more places in Mexico, as well as Canada. I'm 34 years old now and I'm just not satisfied with the fact that I've traveled around California, and to a few places in Mexico, and to Boston -- and that's really the extent of it. I mean really -- Reno, Tahoe, and Vegas don't really count. Though I'd really like to go to Vegas again. It's been WAY too long! The point of this is there have been several years where I haven't gone anywhere and though traveling is expensive, I have to work it into the budget. I have to. I like to travel, and see new places, and I haven't done nearly enough to satisfy that desire. I'm going to make it a priority.
6. Invest a significant amount of time in my new position at work -- I know I can't just coast now, and I need to take this opportunity to wow some people. I've finally been given a chance to do something suited to my personality and interests. So I gotta take it, run with it, and not fuck it up!
Like I said, this was off the top of my head. I will probably have to revisit it and re-tool it, but I figure it's a good start. My blogiversary is in a few days, so that'll be a good time to shore up my list and set it in stone.
Oh, and my unofficial resolution is to dive back into music -- I love it so much -- and not wait forever and ever to buy CDs. I've been loving it so much lately, buying all these CDs and listening to them all day at work. I can't believe how much I've missed it! I was just so tired of the radio -- I haven't listened to the radio in weeks, and I like it that way!
I think, in reviewing my off-the-cuff list, that what's happening is I'm getting back to the things that are important to me. I pushed a lot of stuff off when the husband and I got together, and though it probably sounds cliche, I feel like I kind of lost myself. And at some point I decided, "to hell with that!" It's still my life, and I'm not going to waste anymore time doing only what everyone else expects of me. I want to do what I want to do. So 2006 is gonna be my year. I'm not saying I'm gonna blow everyone else off, but I'm not going to make myself last on the list anymore. Nope, I'm gonna do what I want to do.
I can't wait!
posted by PlatinumGirl at 10:26 PM
1 Comments:
I didn't write it down, but one of my resolutions is to cook something at least once a week. You've inspired me. :)
Your list sounds reasonable. Some things sound more difficult than others, but that's what you need (you in general). hee hee.
I laughed at the customer service rep in India. I know the feeling. Good luck.
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