New Year's & such
Happy 2009 to everyone!
2008 was a really mixed bag for me; some amazingly wonderful things happened, but there were some bad things, too, and all in all I won't be sorry to see the back of the year. I only hope that 2009 will bring better things -- for me, and for all of us.
I've been brave and made some resolutions:
General Resolutions
1) Continue the budget I began this past year, and work on putting as much money into savings as I can.
2) Work on getting back into touch with my creative self, and find some way to express that creativity.
Joint Resolutions (with scarletts_awry)
1) Practice the whole interpersonal communication thing and forming (and maintaining) good connections with people.
2) Practice being positive and letting go of stress/panic/etc.
Regarding number 1 up there under joint resolutions, I hope that means I'll be around LJ more, and that I'll be able to do a better job of talking to people and staying in touch with them. A lot of the things that made 2008 difficult were also things that made me want to retreat from the world, and that's something I'd like to change in the new year.
(To that end, yes, I do plan to catch up on woefully neglected comments.)
I'm scared about doing these things, but I'm also hopeful.
I did have a good vacation in New York, although I'm pleased to be back in L.A. My office is closed this week for holiday break, so I've also been enjoying some extra time off, most of which I have spent doing absolutely nothing except reading and watching TV. And cleaning my apartment.
I did have a good Christmas, though, and got some lovely presents, and got a chance to see some people I haven't in a long time. Oh! And the best thing: I told my mother about scarletts_awry, and she was totally cool and accepting about it, to the point that she now asks on a regular basis how scarletts_awry is doing and how everything is. Which is really awesome.
And which also reinforces how privileged I am in this regard, that I can be open about my relationship with the other people in my life. Because it really is a mark of privilege; not everyone has that freedom, and I know it, and I'm damned lucky that's not the case for me.
2008 was a really mixed bag for me; some amazingly wonderful things happened, but there were some bad things, too, and all in all I won't be sorry to see the back of the year. I only hope that 2009 will bring better things -- for me, and for all of us.
I've been brave and made some resolutions:
General Resolutions
1) Continue the budget I began this past year, and work on putting as much money into savings as I can.
2) Work on getting back into touch with my creative self, and find some way to express that creativity.
Joint Resolutions (with scarletts_awry)
1) Practice the whole interpersonal communication thing and forming (and maintaining) good connections with people.
2) Practice being positive and letting go of stress/panic/etc.
Regarding number 1 up there under joint resolutions, I hope that means I'll be around LJ more, and that I'll be able to do a better job of talking to people and staying in touch with them. A lot of the things that made 2008 difficult were also things that made me want to retreat from the world, and that's something I'd like to change in the new year.
(To that end, yes, I do plan to catch up on woefully neglected comments.)
I'm scared about doing these things, but I'm also hopeful.
I did have a good vacation in New York, although I'm pleased to be back in L.A. My office is closed this week for holiday break, so I've also been enjoying some extra time off, most of which I have spent doing absolutely nothing except reading and watching TV. And cleaning my apartment.
I did have a good Christmas, though, and got some lovely presents, and got a chance to see some people I haven't in a long time. Oh! And the best thing: I told my mother about scarletts_awry, and she was totally cool and accepting about it, to the point that she now asks on a regular basis how scarletts_awry is doing and how everything is. Which is really awesome.
And which also reinforces how privileged I am in this regard, that I can be open about my relationship with the other people in my life. Because it really is a mark of privilege; not everyone has that freedom, and I know it, and I'm damned lucky that's not the case for me.