Future Day 2006
As I've mentioned already, I've been a little more proactive this year than in previous years, and I've started making some of the changes a little ahead of schedule.
The biggest change kind of had to be done before today - I'm going back to school. It's only a part time course once a week, but I'm still pretty excited. I'm going to be learning American Sign Language at Algonquin, starting next Tuesday. Sign Language has always fascinated me, and it's certainly a more salable skill than ice cream scooping (and a more fulfilling and meaningful one, too).
Another major change I mentioned last night is the alarm clock and the attempt at getting back in charge of my sleep again that goes with it. Since even my earliest shifts don't start until eleven, waking up at eight every morning will give me a nice routine time every day for writing, and getting up early will leave me tired enough to fall asleep at midnight, even on the days that I don't get home from work until 11:30.
As for writing, I'm hoping to have enough money to buy a new Mac mini when the new models come out (rumoured for the first half of this month). The mini is a good writing computer because it's too weak to play games, is quite affordable if you already happen to have a $600 monitor sitting on your desk, and above all else has a healthy dose of Just Works that my previous expensive gaming rig sadly didn't. Until I get the mini ( Jib, of course), I'm going to continue fighting with spiders and Easy Company for access to Mom's iMac.
I've got a nice new Ontario driver's license and a new passport already, and I'm hoping to add a (secured) credit card and a cell phone in the not-too-distant future, which will bring me back up to level of self-sufficiency I was able to achieve in North Carolina. Then I'll start stashing some savings away and finish buying my new furniture set from Ikea, since I lost most of the furniture I once owned by moving to a new country ever ten months for a while. At that point, I'll be pretty much past recovered from the fiscal meltdown of former residences again.
The biggest change kind of had to be done before today - I'm going back to school. It's only a part time course once a week, but I'm still pretty excited. I'm going to be learning American Sign Language at Algonquin, starting next Tuesday. Sign Language has always fascinated me, and it's certainly a more salable skill than ice cream scooping (and a more fulfilling and meaningful one, too).
Another major change I mentioned last night is the alarm clock and the attempt at getting back in charge of my sleep again that goes with it. Since even my earliest shifts don't start until eleven, waking up at eight every morning will give me a nice routine time every day for writing, and getting up early will leave me tired enough to fall asleep at midnight, even on the days that I don't get home from work until 11:30.
As for writing, I'm hoping to have enough money to buy a new Mac mini when the new models come out (rumoured for the first half of this month). The mini is a good writing computer because it's too weak to play games, is quite affordable if you already happen to have a $600 monitor sitting on your desk, and above all else has a healthy dose of Just Works that my previous expensive gaming rig sadly didn't. Until I get the mini ( Jib, of course), I'm going to continue fighting with spiders and Easy Company for access to Mom's iMac.
I've got a nice new Ontario driver's license and a new passport already, and I'm hoping to add a (secured) credit card and a cell phone in the not-too-distant future, which will bring me back up to level of self-sufficiency I was able to achieve in North Carolina. Then I'll start stashing some savings away and finish buying my new furniture set from Ikea, since I lost most of the furniture I once owned by moving to a new country ever ten months for a while. At that point, I'll be pretty much past recovered from the fiscal meltdown of former residences again.