"Just know when that glass is empty that the world is gonna bend, yeah"
Its 2010! No more 0's. Time really flies by. I remember being in 6th grade when I first learned that I would graduate high school in the year 2007. All I could think was how far away that was and how it will never get here. Now look where we are!
Before looking to the future lets take a nostalgic moment and look at 2009. Overall, a good year:
- I quit smoking cold turkey as of January 1st 2009. Its been over a year since I've had a cig! REALLY? I don't miss it. In fact I've moved on from being an ex-smoker to a non-smoker. :)
- I entered the year still at FSU working with the PSU and having a grand time with that. FSU was good to me and I definitely miss it sometimes.
- I was living with Krystle, Phil, and AJ in that moldy and freezing old house with one bathroom. But dirt cheap rent! I miss my old roomies despite certain squabbles and schisms.
- I worked over summer full time at Target up there and really really enjoyed it. I've now worked at 3 different targets in 3 different cities and I've loved all of my TMs so much I can't decide which team was/is the best yet.
- Then of course I moved to Orlando in July. Steve and I lived together for only 3 months before calling it quits, and I moved out after 4. Our relationship ended a little over 2 1/2 years. I look back now at all the highs and lows and emotions so varying and at least I can be certain of one thing: Love is strong. I don't mean our love, but LOVE as an entity. Its powerful. Its just that in the end it can wear thin and emotions can dry up.
- After October I moved in with Katie, Vicki, and Shelley. I'm closer to work and the campus and I have more privacy then ever before, but I've never been a person who needs personal space; surround me in my loved ones. ;)
- I started going to a group called Speak Out of Orlando at the LGBTQ Center downtown. I've met a ton of great characters and feel the potential for some real friendships to form. Also, as of late December they made my the 4th Chair of the group, which means I get to host my own meetings and help decide the plans for the groups future. Get excited!
- Fall semester at UCF was difficult to say the least. Working 30-40 hours/week with classes and volunteering in the schools left me catatonic at points. But its over, and I'm optimistic toward the Spring.
Now for 2010: (Its only been one week and I already have two announcements!):
- As of the 1st I am in a new relationship. His name is Matt Davidson. We've been seeing each other here and there since mid-November and although I've had my reservations about getting into a new relationship so soon after the last, when it comes down to it: he makes me uber happy and I'm not letting something with so much potential pass me by due to situational timing. Matt lives in Tampa, so its long distance, but I'm optimistic, which is how I always want to be. :)
- On the 3rd Matt, Steve, Perry (Steve's interest) and I went to see Lady Gaga at the UCF Arena. OMG! I've never been so entertained at a concert before. People can say what they want about her or her fans but honestly she is a true performance artist and entertainer. I've always liked her music and been kinda intrigued by her, but now its blossomed into love. She definitely gets the John Award for best performing artist of 2009. Another great thing about the evening was that I was there with my new bf, my ex, and his boy and yet it wasn't awkward (or at least I hope it wasn't). Steve and I seem to be getting along fine as friends, so I'm hoping 2010 won't change that.
Okay announcements have been shared now onto my New Years Resolutions (not as hardcore as years past, but I'm still going to treat them just as seriously). There are a few of them but I find they all have the same theme:
1. Stop drinking energy drinks (I haven't drank soda in like 2 years, so drinking energy drinks was kinda hypocritical). Thats probably the easiest of the resolutions.
2. Cook more. I used to cook all the time and love it. I made different dishes all the time and experimented a lot. Now I seriously eat the same 3-4 meals day in and day out.
3. Go to at least one destination: Either a cruise or a trip to NYC. My goal is to do both, but if the year ends with only one, then I will not be disappointed.
4. Make my body my canvas: I have to get either a tattoo (already know the design) or a piercing (most likely my nipple) by the end of the year. Again my goal is to do both, but I'll settle with just one.
5. And you may laugh at me for this one, but I'm trying to eat meat again. I know you may not think its difficult to eat something that is so readily available, but after 3 years of being a vegetarian, yeah, it can be. I've eaten chicken on 3 occasions since the new year, and sushi twice. I don't think I can handle red meat just yet. I still identify as a vegetarian, which is sad. So I guess I'll be a conscious omnivore.
Overall this year is about living a little more. I'm 20 years old (turning 21 in a month!) and in college. I don't want to look back at these years and say: "Oh yeah, I certainly did work a lot." or "Oh yeah, college was very mellow for me." Fuck that. I'm young and free, its time to live it up a little more.
Disclaimer: Of course I will not allow this year to interfere with my school work and goals. If it does I'll stop and re-evaluate.
I'm very optimistic for 2010. Don't let me down.
PS: Old userpic for times past. <3
~John~
Before looking to the future lets take a nostalgic moment and look at 2009. Overall, a good year:
- I quit smoking cold turkey as of January 1st 2009. Its been over a year since I've had a cig! REALLY? I don't miss it. In fact I've moved on from being an ex-smoker to a non-smoker. :)
- I entered the year still at FSU working with the PSU and having a grand time with that. FSU was good to me and I definitely miss it sometimes.
- I was living with Krystle, Phil, and AJ in that moldy and freezing old house with one bathroom. But dirt cheap rent! I miss my old roomies despite certain squabbles and schisms.
- I worked over summer full time at Target up there and really really enjoyed it. I've now worked at 3 different targets in 3 different cities and I've loved all of my TMs so much I can't decide which team was/is the best yet.
- Then of course I moved to Orlando in July. Steve and I lived together for only 3 months before calling it quits, and I moved out after 4. Our relationship ended a little over 2 1/2 years. I look back now at all the highs and lows and emotions so varying and at least I can be certain of one thing: Love is strong. I don't mean our love, but LOVE as an entity. Its powerful. Its just that in the end it can wear thin and emotions can dry up.
- After October I moved in with Katie, Vicki, and Shelley. I'm closer to work and the campus and I have more privacy then ever before, but I've never been a person who needs personal space; surround me in my loved ones. ;)
- I started going to a group called Speak Out of Orlando at the LGBTQ Center downtown. I've met a ton of great characters and feel the potential for some real friendships to form. Also, as of late December they made my the 4th Chair of the group, which means I get to host my own meetings and help decide the plans for the groups future. Get excited!
- Fall semester at UCF was difficult to say the least. Working 30-40 hours/week with classes and volunteering in the schools left me catatonic at points. But its over, and I'm optimistic toward the Spring.
Now for 2010: (Its only been one week and I already have two announcements!):
- As of the 1st I am in a new relationship. His name is Matt Davidson. We've been seeing each other here and there since mid-November and although I've had my reservations about getting into a new relationship so soon after the last, when it comes down to it: he makes me uber happy and I'm not letting something with so much potential pass me by due to situational timing. Matt lives in Tampa, so its long distance, but I'm optimistic, which is how I always want to be. :)
- On the 3rd Matt, Steve, Perry (Steve's interest) and I went to see Lady Gaga at the UCF Arena. OMG! I've never been so entertained at a concert before. People can say what they want about her or her fans but honestly she is a true performance artist and entertainer. I've always liked her music and been kinda intrigued by her, but now its blossomed into love. She definitely gets the John Award for best performing artist of 2009. Another great thing about the evening was that I was there with my new bf, my ex, and his boy and yet it wasn't awkward (or at least I hope it wasn't). Steve and I seem to be getting along fine as friends, so I'm hoping 2010 won't change that.
Okay announcements have been shared now onto my New Years Resolutions (not as hardcore as years past, but I'm still going to treat them just as seriously). There are a few of them but I find they all have the same theme:
1. Stop drinking energy drinks (I haven't drank soda in like 2 years, so drinking energy drinks was kinda hypocritical). Thats probably the easiest of the resolutions.
2. Cook more. I used to cook all the time and love it. I made different dishes all the time and experimented a lot. Now I seriously eat the same 3-4 meals day in and day out.
3. Go to at least one destination: Either a cruise or a trip to NYC. My goal is to do both, but if the year ends with only one, then I will not be disappointed.
4. Make my body my canvas: I have to get either a tattoo (already know the design) or a piercing (most likely my nipple) by the end of the year. Again my goal is to do both, but I'll settle with just one.
5. And you may laugh at me for this one, but I'm trying to eat meat again. I know you may not think its difficult to eat something that is so readily available, but after 3 years of being a vegetarian, yeah, it can be. I've eaten chicken on 3 occasions since the new year, and sushi twice. I don't think I can handle red meat just yet. I still identify as a vegetarian, which is sad. So I guess I'll be a conscious omnivore.
Overall this year is about living a little more. I'm 20 years old (turning 21 in a month!) and in college. I don't want to look back at these years and say: "Oh yeah, I certainly did work a lot." or "Oh yeah, college was very mellow for me." Fuck that. I'm young and free, its time to live it up a little more.
Disclaimer: Of course I will not allow this year to interfere with my school work and goals. If it does I'll stop and re-evaluate.
I'm very optimistic for 2010. Don't let me down.
PS: Old userpic for times past. <3
~John~