With the start of a New Year come hopes and dreams for the future. Now, I am terrible at making a plan and following through with it, but I figured that a good place to start would be to make a list of the things I hope to accomplish this year; this way I can look back at it periodically to see how I’m doing.
· BABIES. The most important thing on my mind right now is getting this whole baby situation figured out. Nikki and I have been talking on and off about it for a couple days now and don’t seem to be getting anywhere. She keeps trying to reason with me and get me to feel something that just isn’t there. I’m just not ready for children yet. Not sure how this is going to play out, but something has got to give.
· RELATIONSHIPS. In an earlier blog post I complained (seems like I’ve been doing a lot of that lately, sorry) that I seem to have fallen out of contact with most of my friends. I have already started trying to change that. I e-mailed one friend from college who I haven’t spoken to in almost 4 years and who seemed genuinely happy and excited to talk to me. As bad as I am at following through, I have to keep this up. My life just seems to be missing some good close friends and that is not the life I want.
· BEING MYSELF. It seems that whenever I’m around people I tend to change what I say and how I act to accommodate them. I feel like I have lost a bit of who I am, that I’m slowly turning into this bland amorphous goo. I need to stop trying to please everyone, stop worrying about what other people think, and just be myself.
· GUITAR. My biggest present this Christmas was my very own guitar. I also got Guitar for Dummies and a couple song books. My goal for this year is to get the basics down and hopefully be playing some easy songs by years’ end. I know me, and it’ll be tough to stick with it at first, but I can’t let myself get discouraged. This has the potential of being yet another great creative release.
· SIGN LANGUAGE. I started learning sign language as a way to pass my down time at work and found it to be very enjoyable. I was hoping to get a book on sign language as a Christmas present, but I guess Santa didn’t get my letter. No matter, I plan on buying the book myself and continuing my deaf education.
· DO SOMETHING I’VE NEVER DONE. I’ve been thinking that my life is missing a certain bit of excitement. Yes, I’m a fairly successful 26-year-old accountant, but that isn’t exactly something to write home about. Most of my weekends consist of sitting at home watching TV or visiting the in-laws. I want more than that from my life. I want spontaneous road-trips to random destinations. I want to eat strange food. I want to find things I didn’t even know existed. I want to have adventures. I don’t want to rot in front of a TV or a computer screen for the rest of my life, seeing pictures and reading stories about people living the life I want.
· EXERCISE. Near the end of the summer I started going to the gym again, something I did daily during high school and early on in college. I was able to get into pretty good shape and while I don’t consider myself a vain person, I do like to look good. I haven’t been to the gym in several weeks, due in large part to Nikki’s situation with her knee, but I hope to get back into it. I know all too well that the hardest part of getting in shape is the first week.
Well, that’s all I’ve got for now. Not sure if any of this really matters since the apocalypse is happening at the end of this year ;-). Better get busy livin’ it up while I can!
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