It took me a second to get this entry in due to some personal technical difficulties, which still withstand, but will work themselves out as things usually do.
Well, here we are again. The end of one year and at the beginning of another. We've crossed the path almost reaching 2010. Which begins to sound even more like the future. Flying cars and things of the sort.
I hear people talking about resolutions and changes and everything they want to leave behind. Almost like the year before was the worst. Thick on the bad connotation of 2007.
I would like to be the first to say that 2007 for me was not a bad one in the least. (for once?). It was actually one where I had set goals to take on that I had failed to accomplish in 2006.
I cooked a lot more, like, a lot more! I quit smoking (although a little late in the year). Maintaining a steady gym routine (although losing routine a bit into the year, but going even if out of schedule). Took classes throughout the year. Read a whole lot more. Last, but not least, getting my finances back in order.
Getting the money on track has been a resolution probably since I first left El Paso, and through a series of life lessons, numerous written sources, a few role models, and a handful of encouraging peers, I did it! I'm months away now (months I can count with one hand) from atonement.
Which in the long run, will be the first step of a new track and a continuance 5-year plan to reaching the my goals.
This coming up year I don't have very many goals, much further than keeping up with what I've been doing.
The only new ones, which some I've set in motion in December, are:
- Keep piling up the cash into the ING savings accounts. (I've opened 3)
- Finish up the draft of my business plan. (Got the software and the sources)
- Keep up with this blog - for once. (Trying!)
- Take writing, art, and culinary courses. (Signed up last night)
- Finalize debt. (Mid-April)
- Go visit my friends on the West Coast and abroad. (Waiting for my passport!)
- Get started on getting myself a car that isn't a Ford Probe. (No. Seriously. I don't want a Probe.)
Happy New Year's everyone! The best is yet to come!
