2010 Goals

[loic]

 Not so much resolutions but directions I'd like to head in or things I'd like to achieve:

• Really enjoy the rest of our trip. Make new friends on our travels. Reconnect with old friends in Australia. Have a great time with my family in Australia and New Zealand. Continue to have a fantastic time with Sharon.
• Be excited to be back in San Francisco.

Comments

[alibee]

This list made me excited for you guys, and watching what happens for you both in the year to come. It's weird that I love the idea of the things that you list but for some reason feel that they are outside of my own abilities. That's something I need to investigate.

Damn you, making me THINK!

Also, on the last point, if you or Sharon have questions about babies, I HAVE TOO MUCH KNOWLEDGE. Feel free to ask for my own experience, I won't give it to you otherwise because I think people offering advice w/o being asked is obnoxious in this area. (Except the "making baby" bit, you're on your own there ;P )

[dearanxiety]

where do babies come from???

seriously, we might have questions. i've already been compiling information and thinking about things like natural childbirth, midwives, doulas, cloth vs disposable diapers because i am crazy. but first we have to get the baby in my belly.

[alibee]

Babies come from the stork, if you're asking my parents, because their daughter sure as hell hasn't had teh sexxins.

I did a drug-free labor, and I cloth dipe and am officially an extended breastfeeder. I didn't use a doula or a midwife and had a hospital birth with an OB that I would HIGHLY recommend but I know a lot of LJers who have had home births, etc., so I could point you in that direction for good info.

[dearanxiety]

definitely not into the home birth. leaning toward the natural childbirth in hospital and maybe with a doula and/or midwife along with ob/gyn. once we have jobs and thus insurance, i'll ask about ob/gyns. i liked the one i had a lot but i don't know if she's who i'd want to do childbirth with, to be honest.

[caladri]

Good directions to head in! Good luck :)

[loic]

Thanks!

[hub_]

For the place where to live for not too much money, there is Canada :-) Albeit not great job-wise :-(

[loic]

I love Canada (particularly Vancouver and Victoria where I lived as a kid) but it's too fucking cold. San Francisco is also too cold. Yeah I'm a wimp.

[hub_]

Vancouver, cold? Mwaaaahhhh....

(yeah, I had to say that, currently 7C)

[loic]

Okay, but where I'm from the lowest ever recorded temperature was -0.7C. In July (the dead of winter) the average high temperature is 18.4C.

[enf]

Best of luck finding somewhere great in the Bay Area outside of San Francisco -- let me know if you find it. Piedmont Avenue has coffee, groceries, and reasonable access to transportation, but if the Richmond isn't tolerable, I can't imagine that it would be either.

[dearanxiety]

i think that ian and i both love piedmont ave like 1000x more than we like the richmond! it's high on our list if ian doesn't work in the south bay!

[loic]

I love most things about the Richmond more (food, proximity, etc), just not the weather.

[loic]

The thing I don't like about the Richmond is the chilly weather. Piedmont Ave is decidedly sunnier. Living in Oakland and working in Mountain View you might have forgotten that there's somewhere in the Bay Area where it's miserable every morning for most of the year (all of San Francisco) and every evening (the western part of San Francisco).

[thefon]

Almost exactly the same list for me.
Add "do some study".
Thinking about moving from London back to Perth in a couple of years.

[loic]

I'd like to move back to Perth at some point. Probably not till our cat dies, we have kids, buy a house and pay a lot of it off. 8-12 years? Depressing but probably realistic.

As for study, I never got much out of it without a goal. Perhaps new job challenges would motivate me to do an MBA or some similar beast, but I think for me going back to school will only be because I really have to to learn what I want.