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Resolutiony type thingies.
Last Year v This Year
30-12-2006 10:30PM
Last year I resolved to:
- Learn a new language. Grade: F-. I did not even improve my English skillz. Bad geek!
- Pursue an art. Grade: B+. Only a B+ because it's arguable whether something crafty like spinning is really an art, but I think it is. Also only a B+ because I started something completely new and completely neglected older pursuits, which is typical of me.
- The ol' Get Organised! ploy. Grade: C-. My organisation really slumped until the end of the year. I did manage to keep up with moderate to light blogging. My spending tracking went OK, but I had a few bad weeks. Applying GTD was a total failure. I did OK in general, but did nothing groundbreaking.
- Political/Social involvement. Grade: A. I got my dual citizenship! And I sent an email to try to save the 3801 Limited.
- Mr Wiggins and I took up a fun hobby together that expanded our social group: Knitting!
- Lived for yet another year broadcast & cable TV-free (vive le DVD!). No, I do not miss the hours of commercials that suck out my soul.
- Started up a new job that fitted my needs & wants better.
For this year, I'm just going to do some standard style resolutions (no multiple choice decisions left up to the masses).
- Seriously, like, really get back on the wagon with the damned writing. Mr Wiggins wants to do some writing too, for fun. I am going to run a pretend Creative Writing course with both of us as the students. It's called Mistress ARJ's School of Creative Writing (I know, not that creative).
- Get some damned exercise. Ever since the Council closed down my gym (jerks!), I have been getting flabbier and flabbier. I'm thinking of this.
- Regular spinning practice (this will be the easiest). This will be facilitated by my corollary resolution: make more gifts for people. I was kinda slack on the gift giving (for birthdays and holidays) this year.
- Go to some career counselling. I like my new job, but it's time for me to get out of IT as a career. It's just not where my head & heart are.
At 03-01-2007 12:04PM ARJ roceal@jngm.net commented:
My birthday was OK. Not great, not bad. We went to Watson's Bay but it was too cold & windy to really enjoy it. The weather is incredibly confused & thinks it's fall instead of the middle of SUMMER. But it was still a nice ferry ride and then we went to a friend's place to watch the fireworks on the bridge.
At 12-01-2007 06:27AM Jennifer jnschneider@hotmail.com commented:
The weather is confused everywhere. Buffalo-two feet of snow in OCTOBER. Seattle-heavy winds knocking out trees and power. Denver-LOTS of snow. I'm sure even autumn in Australia isn't TOO cold compared to all that :).
At 13-01-2007 08:42PM ARJ roceal@jngm.net commented:
Autumn in Australia is different depending on where you are in Australia. Sydney isn't tropical. Sure, it doesn't compare to the piles of snow happening elsewhere, but there was a reason I left the PNW & cold, wet weather, too. And I think anyone looking forward to summer is justifiably disappointed if it's cold, windy, and overcast, especially if it's your birthday! At least in the northern hemisphere, it's supposed to be cold right now, even if it's extreme and unusual cold.
At 03-01-2007 06:35AM Mom james127@telcomplus.net commented:
Interesting resolutions. I have resolved to get more exercise: I "mall walk" most work days and do my yoga tape on the weekends.
Be more creative: I have started on "drawing for the right side of the brain" and I'm taking pictures. Before January is out I will have my resume posted on Monster.com. We'll see what comes of it. Hope your B-day was a good one. Love Mom