New Year's Resolutions
New Year’s Resolutions
When I make them, I try not to make them too outrageous. Last Year’s progress:
1. Stop drinking soda - I did this. Yay. I also joined a gym part way through the year, and minus this vacation week, I’ve been going 3 times a week since. I haven’t actually lost much weight, but I feel a bit better and a bit trimmer and that’s progress.
2. Finish one of the joint fics I’d started with Arineat by my birthday in March - Um…so yeah. This didn’t happen. Obviously. However, that fact was partly out of my control.
3. Finish Secrets & Lies - DONE! Woo hoo.
So, not too shabby, I suppose. This year I’m setting the bar a tad higher.
1. Get a personal trainer. To increase effects of the brutal work I’m doing at the gym, I’ve decided to invest in some help. I’m battling 30 years of lethargy here…I think I need it.
2. Edit my existing joint fics to just my writing and my character POV’s so that I can finish and post them. I might not finish them all (there are loads) but I feel like the work I’ve put into them is too good to waste and the likelihood of them ever being finished otherwise seems less and less plausible each day.
3. Finish at minimum 10 chapters in my novel. It’s been coming along nicely and I think finishing it would give me a sense of accomplishment that would be hard to match.
4. Spend more time with my friends. This means you guys as well as a lot of the people I break plans with to sit on the computer. I spent the majority of the last few years strapped to this laptop every spare moment I had and in the end it won me nothing. I’ve always been the type to have one or two very close friends and nothing much outside of that. This year will be different.
5. Stop being such a fucking Pisces. Seriously. Oh, I fall in love so easily it’s pathetic, but worse, I break like fine china on a hard tile floor. I intend to learn to be more careful with my heart and only give it out to those who deserve it.
6. Spend more time with Seth. If the trails of this year -work, family, friends- have taught me anything, it’s that the person I can rely on most is my dear husband. He’s my rock through all things and when everyone else has abandoned me, he’s always there. This will be our 13th year together, and since that’s always been my lucky number, I think good things are in store for us this year.
7. WRITE!! I’ve missed my muse as of late, as I’m sure some of you have noticed. I’ve been too wrapped up and preoccupied with other things that I think she took a sabbatical. Well, some of those distractions have been taken care of for me, and others I intend to eliminate or at least reduce this year. Hopefully she’ll visit more often now.
I suppose the general theme of 2012 for me is Focus. I need to clean house, both literally and spiritually and I need to realign myself with what’s important to me. I shall not allow myself to slip into boredom or loneliness and I intend to keep my self-loathing to a minimum.
When I make them, I try not to make them too outrageous. Last Year’s progress:
1. Stop drinking soda - I did this. Yay. I also joined a gym part way through the year, and minus this vacation week, I’ve been going 3 times a week since. I haven’t actually lost much weight, but I feel a bit better and a bit trimmer and that’s progress.
2. Finish one of the joint fics I’d started with Arineat by my birthday in March - Um…so yeah. This didn’t happen. Obviously. However, that fact was partly out of my control.
3. Finish Secrets & Lies - DONE! Woo hoo.
So, not too shabby, I suppose. This year I’m setting the bar a tad higher.
1. Get a personal trainer. To increase effects of the brutal work I’m doing at the gym, I’ve decided to invest in some help. I’m battling 30 years of lethargy here…I think I need it.
2. Edit my existing joint fics to just my writing and my character POV’s so that I can finish and post them. I might not finish them all (there are loads) but I feel like the work I’ve put into them is too good to waste and the likelihood of them ever being finished otherwise seems less and less plausible each day.
3. Finish at minimum 10 chapters in my novel. It’s been coming along nicely and I think finishing it would give me a sense of accomplishment that would be hard to match.
4. Spend more time with my friends. This means you guys as well as a lot of the people I break plans with to sit on the computer. I spent the majority of the last few years strapped to this laptop every spare moment I had and in the end it won me nothing. I’ve always been the type to have one or two very close friends and nothing much outside of that. This year will be different.
5. Stop being such a fucking Pisces. Seriously. Oh, I fall in love so easily it’s pathetic, but worse, I break like fine china on a hard tile floor. I intend to learn to be more careful with my heart and only give it out to those who deserve it.
6. Spend more time with Seth. If the trails of this year -work, family, friends- have taught me anything, it’s that the person I can rely on most is my dear husband. He’s my rock through all things and when everyone else has abandoned me, he’s always there. This will be our 13th year together, and since that’s always been my lucky number, I think good things are in store for us this year.
7. WRITE!! I’ve missed my muse as of late, as I’m sure some of you have noticed. I’ve been too wrapped up and preoccupied with other things that I think she took a sabbatical. Well, some of those distractions have been taken care of for me, and others I intend to eliminate or at least reduce this year. Hopefully she’ll visit more often now.
I suppose the general theme of 2012 for me is Focus. I need to clean house, both literally and spiritually and I need to realign myself with what’s important to me. I shall not allow myself to slip into boredom or loneliness and I intend to keep my self-loathing to a minimum.