2006 year in review
I'm sitting here waiting for an oil change to finish, and I brought my laptop because I know these discount oil changes take forever. Now that I've gotten done what I hoped to get done on this computer, and they're still not through with my oil change, I figure I'll write a year-in-review post. Don't worry, it'll be nice and boring, but that's because it's more for me to look back on in years to come than it is for others to read and be entertained... but I'm leaving it out here for y'all to read, because, well, am I really going to be looking back on it? Well, I might.
So in 2006 I did a small number of fairly big things. This time last year I had a house in Orlando; I was getting stupider daily at a job I couldn't stand even though it was supposedly working on the coolest type of assignment anyone could hope for; and I had a whole lot to do before finals.
Now I'm living in an apartment in Cupertino, waiting for closing on a condo in Saratoga that's about triple the price of the Orlando house; I'm learning oodles at a job I love even though it sounds way boring from the description; and I've got that Master's. (No, I do not intend to pursue a PhD.)
I also picked up a hobby of putting stuff on Flickr. I don't have any delusions of actually being a real photographer, taking pictures that anyone outside of me and my immediate family would want to look at, but I do like the idea of keeping the family photo album online, where family in other states can look at it, instead of in my closet, taking up space. (And by the view counts, they actually are looking at it. In fact, through a freak occurrence, one picture was noticed by theanklebiter and put on her weblog; then it was looked at by 110 different people, and counting.) So I'm now just putting everything new up there, and I've archived everything digital I had up there too, and I even think I'll get around to hiring out some photo scanning service to scan in old family albums so I can put them up there. Is it a real hobby? Maybe. It's almost like web-surfing, but with a point. morganie is always telling me I should pick up a hobby, so I feel like I've done something about it.
With that said, even though I sure kept busy on a lot of things, I don't feel like I accomplished much of significance. That small writeup was a year out of my life. I can only reasonably expect to get, like, 70 of those, and I've already blown 27 of them. By this time next year I hope to have selected a church out of the many out here and gotten actively involved in it. Doing what? Not sure yet, but I have a bunch of ideas. Also, about a year and a half ago we set mid-2007 as the target date for when we'd get rolling on adopting a kid or kids. So by this year next time I hope to have either started the adoption process (the "paper pregnancy" as they like to call it, because it's 9 months long and it makes you sick) or intentionally postponed it until some definite later date for a good reason.
So in 2006 I did a small number of fairly big things. This time last year I had a house in Orlando; I was getting stupider daily at a job I couldn't stand even though it was supposedly working on the coolest type of assignment anyone could hope for; and I had a whole lot to do before finals.
Now I'm living in an apartment in Cupertino, waiting for closing on a condo in Saratoga that's about triple the price of the Orlando house; I'm learning oodles at a job I love even though it sounds way boring from the description; and I've got that Master's. (No, I do not intend to pursue a PhD.)
I also picked up a hobby of putting stuff on Flickr. I don't have any delusions of actually being a real photographer, taking pictures that anyone outside of me and my immediate family would want to look at, but I do like the idea of keeping the family photo album online, where family in other states can look at it, instead of in my closet, taking up space. (And by the view counts, they actually are looking at it. In fact, through a freak occurrence, one picture was noticed by theanklebiter and put on her weblog; then it was looked at by 110 different people, and counting.) So I'm now just putting everything new up there, and I've archived everything digital I had up there too, and I even think I'll get around to hiring out some photo scanning service to scan in old family albums so I can put them up there. Is it a real hobby? Maybe. It's almost like web-surfing, but with a point. morganie is always telling me I should pick up a hobby, so I feel like I've done something about it.
With that said, even though I sure kept busy on a lot of things, I don't feel like I accomplished much of significance. That small writeup was a year out of my life. I can only reasonably expect to get, like, 70 of those, and I've already blown 27 of them. By this time next year I hope to have selected a church out of the many out here and gotten actively involved in it. Doing what? Not sure yet, but I have a bunch of ideas. Also, about a year and a half ago we set mid-2007 as the target date for when we'd get rolling on adopting a kid or kids. So by this year next time I hope to have either started the adoption process (the "paper pregnancy" as they like to call it, because it's 9 months long and it makes you sick) or intentionally postponed it until some definite later date for a good reason.