Erase and move on

I don’t have any new year’s resolutions. I don’t believe in them, at least not as such. Basically I believe they’re setting you up for failure, which in turn will make you feel like a miserable little fucker who can’t even keep a new year’s resolution. So, I’m doing things a wee bit different.

First off, let me tell you that for once I’m actually excited about the new year. Normally I hate the idea that another year has gone by and yet I’ve achieved nothing. Now I actually start 2010 with a job, good friends, and the outlines of a plan.

Also, I’ve achieved something in 2009 that I feel will set the tone for the rest of my life: I wrote a novel!

As you may have noticed I’ve erased my past, in order to start the new decade with a completely clean slate. All my previous posts are gone, and I’ve changed the template. This will achieve the goal of letting go of the bad stuff holding me back, as well as opening up to the future (also I no longer have to be paranoid about people I know finding the blog and being able to read about my past).

So, here’s what I’ll do: rather than making a list of resolutions, I’ll make a list of hopes and expectations for the year :)

1. Find an apartment and move to the city, hopefully by August.
2. Look for jobs that I actually want!
3. Finish my novel, which now has received its final title - Snow Angels, and write the first draft of another one.
4. Buy a small laptop, and start hanging out at cafés… :p
5. Travel. Once to Poland and visit Angie, and once to… wherever Firkløveret (Rhiannon, Louisiana, Bríd and I) will be going next. I believe Scotland was suggested… as well as going back to Paris. If I can throw my two cents in (but we’ve actually decided Bríd – as the youngest – has the final say), I’ll suggest Venice.

But since there’s nothing I can do about any of it right at this very moment, I’m off to watch some more Boston Legal :)


Happy New Century!