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Two Thousand Nine

Happy New Year! And Happy New Blog, too!

Last year I made two New Year’s resolutions, and it was the first time I seriously attempted this. The first was personal, but I’d like to say that it was a partial success. In fact… not a bad job.

The second one I did share last year, and it was a wish to get my life moving again. Specifically, go to college. My first, knee-jerk reaction is that I failed on this completely, but the more I reflect back on it, the more I realized that I didn’t completely fail. No, I’m not in college. No, I’m not really any closer to going to college. No, I haven’t even taken another online class.

But it seems like the more that I push for it, the more I feel something pushing back. I know it sounds like a cop-out, but I’m starting to believe that I’m not supposed to be there just yet, for whatever reason. I’ve been focusing a lot on my job, and you know what? In the last year, I’ve gotten a major promotion and a three-dollar pay raise. For my first job, that’s not too bad. I’m management now, working full time. I have insurance.

This leads me up to next year’s resolutions.

1. A continuation of last year’s personal resolution. I hate to be secretive, but it’s not something I particularly enjoy talking about.
2. My license. It’s completely pathetic and inexcusable that I don’t have this (and a car) yet. Seriously.
3. Work towards moving out. I SO want to be independent; it’s just a matter of getting the money to do so. This will involve putting money into savings and keeping it there.
4. Create five terrific WordPress themes and give them away. If I want to someday do some freelance web design, I’ve got to get my  name out there.
5. Finish a novel. Whether this means finishing Seasons Past or putting down an idea I’ve had recently (actually LB and I are starting a writing contest with each other this month), I just need to write more.
6. Blog every day this year. If Amanda can do it, I can too.

So, six things. We’ll see how this goes, okay?

Life is WAY too short!

I’ve been getting this message from a million different directions recently… that life is too short for all the crap we’ve got going on. One of my closest friends could have died very recently in a car accident, and everything she’s been saying since has confirmed this. One little thing in your life could go slightly differently, and boom… you could be gone. Life is too short for all of the things we are and are not doing.

I feel like I need to make a lot of changes in my own life. A lot of changes. I feel resolute; I feel like this whole thing is so fleeting and I’m wasting my time with inactivity. I need to get up and go. I’ve come up with a list of New Year’s Resolutions. Now, before you tell me that it’s not the new year just yet… I’m thinking more along the lines of “I want to check back on myself around New Year’s, and I want to see if I’ve actually done what I set out to do.”

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