Ein Neues Jahr
The New Year has started out both fantastically and well, not so great. On the fantastic side, I have gotten to see plenty of good people this week including family and friends from home that I see very rarely. Got to host for the first time on New Year's Eve (even though I napped through part of it), and to go to my grandparents' open house on the first for the first time in forever. And, my graduate school applications are 95% done. On the less fantastic side, I still don't have a new car and some school things still need to get ironed out. I found two nice looking, newish Hondas with low miles but haven't heard back from either of them. I'm hoping it's just the holidays interfering with business, but I'm getting a little frustrated.
I don't usually do New Year's Resolutions, because I've always thought they were kind of silly. I still think they're kind of silly but I can also see how saying out loud (or...where people can read it) what you plan on doing for the year can give you some incentive to do so (especially when one of those people is Mike Faulk). So here we go:
o I'm going to (try to) lighten up, and think a little more before I talk. Those may seem contradictory, but I assure you, they go hand in hand.
o I'm going to read those important books that are so interesting yet so hard to read. It's a different sort of skill than devouring novels, and it's high time I learned how. I have acquired Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, and Michael gave me an interesting book on new generation feminism (this being only the top of the list I plan to get through in 2009)
There's a few more floating around in my head like actually having an exercise routine, etc, etc, but those are pretty standard and not necessarily in the "Starting Over New" category.
To everyone I didn't see, I hope you guys got this year off to a great start and I hope I see you soon!
I don't usually do New Year's Resolutions, because I've always thought they were kind of silly. I still think they're kind of silly but I can also see how saying out loud (or...where people can read it) what you plan on doing for the year can give you some incentive to do so (especially when one of those people is Mike Faulk). So here we go:
o I'm going to (try to) lighten up, and think a little more before I talk. Those may seem contradictory, but I assure you, they go hand in hand.
o I'm going to read those important books that are so interesting yet so hard to read. It's a different sort of skill than devouring novels, and it's high time I learned how. I have acquired Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, and Michael gave me an interesting book on new generation feminism (this being only the top of the list I plan to get through in 2009)
There's a few more floating around in my head like actually having an exercise routine, etc, etc, but those are pretty standard and not necessarily in the "Starting Over New" category.
To everyone I didn't see, I hope you guys got this year off to a great start and I hope I see you soon!