A new year has begun. Yeah, I
know you know, I’m just stating the obvious as a means to start a post about my
Twenty-Ten plans. No, I wasn’t trying to
imply you’ve been under a rock for the past year and didn’t realize 2009
has come to an end. Yes, I think you are
very smart, you read my blog after all and that has to count for a fair amount
of intelligence not to mention good taste.
Geez la wheez. Bickering with you wasn’t exactly the way I envisioned
starting the new year. Think we could
move on now. Great. Thanks.
Call me a lemming if you want (with the attitude you have today, you
are probably calling me far worse already) but I like making New Year’s
Resolutions. I also really like to make
Birthday Resolutions, I’m a year older, hopefully a year wiser and I can make a
plan to be a better me starting with a few easy changes. Some resolutions stick and I actually change
behaviors and other fail miserably before January 7th and I’m ok
with these results because I learn something for each experience. Sure, sometimes the lesson is I can’t stop
drinking Mr. Pibb because it is my happy sauce and I need happy sauce to get
through the day sometimes. And sometimes
the lesson is not wearing a Gator t-shirt and jeans every day of your life is a
good thing.
So this year, I plan to learn from a variety experiences, namely these:
I am single and quickly
approaching the age of spinsterhood/crazy cat lady so I plan find men in
twenty-ten. I will settle for A man but
‘men’ sounds better since it rhymes and all.
I really want to get married on 11/11/11 so I need to get a move on the
whole dating - falling in love - engagement thing.
Have Orin certified to
be a hospital therapy dog. Lots of
people say they have the best dog ever, but I really do have the best dog
ever. Seriously. Ever. About a month ago, I read about dogs being
certified to visit hospitals to cheer up the patients Orin would be perfect in this role and all I
have to do to certify her is have the vet sign a form that says Orin is
completely vaccinated and a well behaved.
The downside of this is the vet appointment for the certification is $150
and I ain’t made of money. I will find
the money and hopefully Orin will be cheering up the infirm by February!
Write every day. Even if I only a write a mean text message to
KJ on Tormented Tina Tuesdays because I know she is demented enough that a mean
text would cheer up her up immediately.
I like to write and it’s pretty cathartic so this one should really be a
no brainer but I also have a deep appreciation for napping and usually napping
takes precendence over writing.
I am trying to be more
fit and so I have started running. I plan
to run the Gasparilla 5k in February and I would like to run 2 other 5k races
and at least one 10k. In a perfect
world, I will do a half marathon before the year is out.
Clean my fucking
room. This one bests me every year but
this is my year. I can feel it! I have already done a fair amount of work
getting rid of stuff and with my hoarder like tendencies this is no small
feat. I plan to do a bit of cleaning,
organizing and purging daily. I’m
shooting for an hour a day, probably while watching some sweet tween dramas I
have dvred.
Keep my car clean! I bought a brand spanking new car last
December and I freaking love it but I regularly leave stuff in the car for
prolonged periods of time. For instance,
I put all of my Fall cubical decorations in a storage bin on December 1st
and I left that bin in my car until 12/23 when I was packing the car with
presents for my family. There is no
reason to leave that sort of crap in the car.
Learn more design
stuff. I have CS4 and I play with it
every now and then and I am definitely learning a lot. I would like to create more awesome graphics
stuff and perhaps design my own website.
That would mean I would need to upgrade my Typepad account or find a
different service because my current level doesn’t allow me to create custom
HTML. Bitches.
Become more high
matenence. This one is probably opposite
most other people but I am so laid back with personal upkeep and what not I
think it would help my ‘Men in 2010’ plan if I paid a little more attention to
myself. Last year, I vowed to stop
wearing a t-shirt and jeans all the time and I have done a pretty good job
sticking to it. This year, I would like
to commit to doing things like regularly shaving even though I really hate it,
getting frequent manicures and pedicures, waxing my eye brows, doing my hair,
wearing jewelry, wearing makeup and upgrading my wardrobe another step above
jeans and t-shirts.
I think that’s a pretty daunting list of stuff I want to do this year
so I better get off this thing and get cracking. Wish me luck, daily, please, I’m gonna need
it!