Obligatory recap; observation; non-binding commitment
With the help of Jim's parents, we've mostly completed tiling the kitchen floor! Mostly = there are a few we'll need to take up and reseat within a month or so. Next time: lay the cement board properly. And consider that the floor might be not only unlevel, but also uneven. And try to determine why the grout dried to a dried-mud color rather than a wet-mud color. That's really bothering me, now that i think about it.
The Eve of this new year was spent eating leftover chinese food, curled up on the couch with just Jim and Connor watching movies and spending the evening together. It was much needed, after working nine days straight overlapped with relatives hanging about the house until that morning. A very good start to a year that followed one of enormous life-stuff.
In 2007:
I became a mother.
I became a legally-recognized domestic partner.
We decided to exchange our plan to move closer to friends and family and culture with satisfaction of our need to settle somewhere, (literally) put some roots down and approach our long-term life plans from a more stable vantage (regarding employment, anyway).
We bought a house.
I traveled to: Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Phoenixville & etc., State College, Maryland, West Virginia, Georgia, Chautauqua. Too few places not often enough. No vacation.
I did not change my hair.
I was richer and broker (monetarily) than i'd been in my life.
I did not produce any art.
I figured out some things about myself.
I did not get outside enough.
My job remained stable.
I started to reprioritize and appreciate special occasions
The year went too fast. I keep thinking of events that occurred the year previous and it make this past year seem too sparse, despite the enormous events that took place.
I'm currently noticing the ways my mother relates to people, which gives me insight as to how i relate to people. I'm entirely too self-conscious, but at least i'm aware that i'm self-conscious. I also work too much to win other peoples' approval, and too often act in accordance with how i want people to perceive me rather than with what i want.
In 2008, as well as tapping away at 101/1001:
Travel a little more, visit those i neglected last year
Stop caring so much what other people think
Be less broke
Create things
Kill fewer plants
Work brain in multiple ways
Love to all.
The Eve of this new year was spent eating leftover chinese food, curled up on the couch with just Jim and Connor watching movies and spending the evening together. It was much needed, after working nine days straight overlapped with relatives hanging about the house until that morning. A very good start to a year that followed one of enormous life-stuff.
In 2007:
I became a mother.
I became a legally-recognized domestic partner.
We decided to exchange our plan to move closer to friends and family and culture with satisfaction of our need to settle somewhere, (literally) put some roots down and approach our long-term life plans from a more stable vantage (regarding employment, anyway).
We bought a house.
I traveled to: Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Phoenixville & etc., State College, Maryland, West Virginia, Georgia, Chautauqua. Too few places not often enough. No vacation.
I did not change my hair.
I was richer and broker (monetarily) than i'd been in my life.
I did not produce any art.
I figured out some things about myself.
I did not get outside enough.
My job remained stable.
I started to reprioritize and appreciate special occasions
The year went too fast. I keep thinking of events that occurred the year previous and it make this past year seem too sparse, despite the enormous events that took place.
I'm currently noticing the ways my mother relates to people, which gives me insight as to how i relate to people. I'm entirely too self-conscious, but at least i'm aware that i'm self-conscious. I also work too much to win other peoples' approval, and too often act in accordance with how i want people to perceive me rather than with what i want.
In 2008, as well as tapping away at 101/1001:
Travel a little more, visit those i neglected last year
Stop caring so much what other people think
Be less broke
Create things
Kill fewer plants
Work brain in multiple ways
Love to all.