hey! it’s a new year! how crazy is that?
so, 2009… seems like it’s been gone a while, but i think we’re all feeling its effects still. some of us more than others, i s’poze.
my 2009 was chock-full of excitement and intrigue!
i made new friends. i ate new foods. i gave away my blood, twice. i spent a lot of time limping. i reduced my stinky debt and increased my awesome savings. i gave up sugar for Lent and survived. i almost got run off the road. i fought the germs and won. i went to my step-mother’s funeral. i got a new mattress. i had a birthday party. i developed an anxiety disorder and started taking drugs. i grew tomatoes and herbs on my balcony. i bought a tivo. i went swimming. i had surgery. i developed a life-threatening complication. i rode in an ambulance. i ate hospital food. i started taking rat poison. i thought about selling my car. i bought bras which actually fit. i blogged for a whole month straight. i sold stuff at two craft fairs. i got my hair cut shorter than ever. i went to parties. i bought an iphone. i had countless needles stuck in me for both the taking and removing of liquids.
i actually had to go back to reference material to remember anything which happened before august. the whole pulmonary embolism thing has somehow managed to erase my memory of the first half of the year. maybe i did have some oxygen deprivation? thank god for my blog, i say. thank god!
for 2010, i’ve decided that instead of resolutions, i have a short list of things i want to accomplish. they are listed here thusly:
– go to a long table dinner at the irish heather
– go back to the symphony because it is awesome and i get to wear a dress
– fully experience the 2010 winter olympics since they’re right in my back yard
– have a regularly-scheduled dinner date with my dad every month
– see my mom at least every other month
– not let a month go by without spending time with my friends
– give blood as soon as i’m able, and every 56 days thereafter
– cook something new each week
– work harder
– continue the accelerated progress at debt-elimination and savings-expansion
– treat my body like it’s the only one i’ve got
– sleep 8-9 hours every night
– have more fun
– go outside
– continue to reduce the amount of “stuff” in my life
– call the counsellor
– make things more often
– blog at least once a week
okay, maybe it’s not so short, but a lot of them are “set up once, keep it going” type things. that last one will probably be my hardest to keep, but who knows. maybe if i think of posting as making something/creative outlet you’ll get more to read. we’ll see. time slips by so quickly…
i certainly don’t want myself or anyone i love to spend any more time in hospitals, get into car accidents, lose their jobs, lose their pets, bury a family member or move away. 2009 had way too much of all of those yucky things for far too many people i know and care much for.
i’d like to say i’m feeling optimistic about 2010, but i said that about 2009 and look how that turned out. instead, i’ll say i’m going to attempt to take each day and each event as it comes and do my best to handle them all with grace.