January 1, 2013
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Resolved
I survived the holidays! Now it’s 2013, which should be a big year. If everything goes according to plan, I’ll graduate (again) and find a (real) job. Then, I have to start being an actual grown up, but I won’t graduate until November, so maybe I can defer adulthood until 2014 when I’ll take the bar exam. New goal!
But, it’s time to embrace 2013 and everything it brings. So…what to embrace…hmmmmmmmmmm.
Whereas 2012 has been an average year in the scheme of my life, and in order to build on that foundation to make 2013 a substantially better year in light of the further grand events already scheduled to occur in the next twelve months, I have resolved:
1. To come up with a five-year plan: where do I want to be in 2018? Basically, I need to understand what I want from life (the hard part) and design a plan to effect it (the less hard part). I’m really good at planning; I’m really bad at determining goals. Much of my life has been about satisfying obligations and meeting others’ expectations that I don’t know how to set my own goals. Or maybe other people are better at setting my goals than I am, which is why I haven’t done it? Mayhaps I need more resolutions.
2. To begin implementing the five-year plan.
3. To be healthier. I should get my eating habits back under control when I have to buy my own groceries. The hard part will be drinking less soda. I know it’s bad: it destroys my death, overloads my sodium intake, and leaches calcium from my bones. If I keep drinking soda at current rates: I will be a osteoperosis-riddled, toothless, salty, fifty-year-old man. Then again, if I accept that that is my fate, I can keep enjoying soda now…
4. To understand. There are a lot of things that I thought I would understand at this point in my life. I do not. It’s becoming increasingly apparent that others expect me to understand things about life…but then, this may be me subject to myself to external expectations for failure to have my own. Thinking is a bummer. Qu’est-ce que vous en pensez?
SometimesI wish the Mayans were right about the end of the world. Then, I wouldn’t have to deal with this.5. To never stop psyching myself up for the early May premiere of the new season of Arrested Development. Now, I don’t know whether I’m more pumped about the return of Community in February (after a ten-month hiatus!) or May when the scheduled 14 episodes of Arrested Development get released to Netflix. I’m so giddy I could vomit.
Those are my resolutions/goals/things I’m anticipating for the new year. What are you most looking forward to this year?
Comments (9)
Thanks for the smile reading about the salty old man…. we all turn out that way one day. Go Pass your Bar Exam, and hang your shingle. With 3 degrees, The law was something I always wanted to study. More for personal use than to specialize, or go corporate. I’ve thought of going back and finishing, just to be able to help those who cannot afford it, and do really need help. Could always do pro bono work just for the satisfaction, but I have always been to politically incorrect. Good luck what ever you choose to do
Those sound like some pretty awesome resolutions, especially the getting psyched for Arrested Development.
I hope you will continue to come here after you have passed your bar. I wish for that with tongue in cheek kind of longing, because I don’t know if I could have devoted as much time to xanga if I were practicing medicine. I wish you all the best this year. Go meet your goals, and while you are on that trek, kick the sodas in the ditch.
I have made up my mind to not go grocery shopping like I used to do, AND, I am looking forward to a vacation coming up soon, AND, I am bound and determined to clean the dang garage up. If I do that, I will be on cloud 9.
@Blue_Moon1 - I just hope I’m a salty old man who can wear cardigans. That’s my goal for retirement.
@ItsAll_A_LoveWar - YES! I’m very curious about what shenanigans Gob has been up to over the past…well…almost decade. Part of me hopes that Gobias Industries made it big in the sub-prime mortgage mess and that Gob and Tobias “blue” all their money in a failed blue-man group/magician exposition in Vegas. That would be delightful.
@ZSA_MD - I used to make grocery-shopping a game: I would only get one of the handheld baskets and I only bought what I could fit inside it. It made think about what I was getting and kept me from overspending. Now, I walk to the grocery store–it’s a slightly different system, but the same concept. Good luck on the garage! It’s one my most-dreaded chores…
@TutelageOfTheMundane – I remember when the show first aired. That was forever ago and I was way young and didn’t get most of the funny stuff. I can’t wait for it to start back up. I have no idea why it took them forever to start the show again.
Fantastic resolutions, I’ve started setting my own goals instead of living up to other people’s expectations too, don’t know why I didn’t think of it years ago. By the way, it’s never compulsory to be a real grown-up if you don’t want to
Good luck with your exams (I’m sure you don’t need it) stay away from the soda though.
Happy 2013
I’m looking forward to traveling with my husband and possible meeting some xangans!!
I’m glad the world didn’t end I want to see the rest of THE HOBBIT. After the last instalment the it can end
@SummerLane49 - I totes need the luck for my exams…they’re brutal. I did well on the soda thing for a while…not so much yesterday, though. The thing is I don’t need to give it up completely, just cut back–even if WAY back. But, it will have to be a gradual process I am sure.
@murisopsis - Meeting xangans is something I’ve always wanted to do. I’m sure you’ll let us know how it goes!
@alterEGGO - Good point. I saw the most recent movie on Christmas. I heard a lot of grumbles about it, but I thought it was good. It would be nice to see how it all translates into the movie format. Thanks for stopping in!