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I suppose it's that time again
Jan. 2nd, 2006 04:09 pmconsidering I write out goals every week (it's a quantum metaphysics thing), I don't know the point in the New Year's Resolution post, other than I have been without post-worthy news of late. So, here it is, a list of things I will change within the new year:
-Of course, lose weight. Who doesn't want to lose weight as a new year's resolution? Well, I lost 15 lbs since summer (which was noticable only in the fact that my shoe size shrank [wtf?] and, well, was a little strange because I spent 2 months completely sedentary due to my leg), but gained 5 back over the holidays. This exact thing happened last year (2004) too, except I gained back all 15 lbs by the time summer came around. Maybe this year I can not be chubby?
-Write more, damnit! I don't expect to finish any drafts of my books this year, but I'd like to get the outlines done and come up with an ultimate ending for the whole series. I'm contemplating much death of major characters. But it cannot be a tragedy, i've decided, seeing as how the themes of the book a relatively positive and hopeful. If it is a tragedy, there must be such a silver lining as cannot be ignored, regardless of how many lovable characters I murder.
-Read more. I've already begun to embark on that goal: i finished reading Jane Eyre today, by Charlotte Bronte (with the dots over the last "e") which was, much like her sister's novel Wuthering Heights an odd sort of love story. But whereas WH was eerie and mildly disturbing, Jane Eyre was 3 times the size and contained enough quality bits to equal the whole worth of the shorter novel, but I was disappointed in the ending. Although, i suppose, I can hardly sympathize with the female characters the Bronte's create, for while they may be well made to fit their era, I'm simply not a good english christian and have difficulting imagining such a world and living in it besides. Either way, though, I recommend both books. Tonight I'll start The Scarlett Letter and bear through the awful jailhouse description at the beginning since I've been promised it is worth it. (I went crazy at B&N one day; they had a sale on classic novels, buy 2 get 1 free. After this it's Aesop's Fables)
-Meditate more. I try to find time and discipline, but i have such a hard time at it. I feel constantly that if i'm not reading writing or working I'm wasting my time, and if i have other things to accomplish I'm so concerned about misusing my time that I often waste it considering my options too deeply before deciding on a course of action, if ever a decision is made. It's downright obsessive-compulsive. So, meditating I believe will assist in conquering that "issue," as well as help my in a number of other ways. (I'm predisposed to so many energetic forms of observation and manipulation that I might as well try at proficiency, right?)
-And, last but not least, become an independent person. Not to say that I don't want my parents to pay for things anymore, not at all! But, i think it's necessary, as was stated on a fateful day last August, that i realize myself and become comfortable with who I am before I go ahead an settle into a dependent relationship again. Yeah, I thought I was independent. But the past week has shown me that I clearly am not. Ah youth.
Well, that's it for now.
-Of course, lose weight. Who doesn't want to lose weight as a new year's resolution? Well, I lost 15 lbs since summer (which was noticable only in the fact that my shoe size shrank [wtf?] and, well, was a little strange because I spent 2 months completely sedentary due to my leg), but gained 5 back over the holidays. This exact thing happened last year (2004) too, except I gained back all 15 lbs by the time summer came around. Maybe this year I can not be chubby?
-Write more, damnit! I don't expect to finish any drafts of my books this year, but I'd like to get the outlines done and come up with an ultimate ending for the whole series. I'm contemplating much death of major characters. But it cannot be a tragedy, i've decided, seeing as how the themes of the book a relatively positive and hopeful. If it is a tragedy, there must be such a silver lining as cannot be ignored, regardless of how many lovable characters I murder.
-Read more. I've already begun to embark on that goal: i finished reading Jane Eyre today, by Charlotte Bronte (with the dots over the last "e") which was, much like her sister's novel Wuthering Heights an odd sort of love story. But whereas WH was eerie and mildly disturbing, Jane Eyre was 3 times the size and contained enough quality bits to equal the whole worth of the shorter novel, but I was disappointed in the ending. Although, i suppose, I can hardly sympathize with the female characters the Bronte's create, for while they may be well made to fit their era, I'm simply not a good english christian and have difficulting imagining such a world and living in it besides. Either way, though, I recommend both books. Tonight I'll start The Scarlett Letter and bear through the awful jailhouse description at the beginning since I've been promised it is worth it. (I went crazy at B&N one day; they had a sale on classic novels, buy 2 get 1 free. After this it's Aesop's Fables)
-Meditate more. I try to find time and discipline, but i have such a hard time at it. I feel constantly that if i'm not reading writing or working I'm wasting my time, and if i have other things to accomplish I'm so concerned about misusing my time that I often waste it considering my options too deeply before deciding on a course of action, if ever a decision is made. It's downright obsessive-compulsive. So, meditating I believe will assist in conquering that "issue," as well as help my in a number of other ways. (I'm predisposed to so many energetic forms of observation and manipulation that I might as well try at proficiency, right?)
-And, last but not least, become an independent person. Not to say that I don't want my parents to pay for things anymore, not at all! But, i think it's necessary, as was stated on a fateful day last August, that i realize myself and become comfortable with who I am before I go ahead an settle into a dependent relationship again. Yeah, I thought I was independent. But the past week has shown me that I clearly am not. Ah youth.
Well, that's it for now.
