Ringing in 2010

So as 2010 comes to an end I look back on 2009. There were some great things and some not so great things. I remember saying a couple years ago that I wasn’t ever going to make another New Year’s resolution but I still find myself doing so. If only so I can say screw it later on in the year. Today while I was on a walk  I had a chance to reflect on my New Years resolutions from last year and think about what I planned to try and accomplish in the coming year.

1. Pull myself back together

Long story short the end of a relationship saw me falling to pieces. Accomplished

2. Finish writing a book

I had three unfinished projects at the time and I decided that at least one of them had to be finished. Accomplished, as a matter of fact I finished two of them and started two more.

3. Find a new hobby

I need ways to keep myself occupied other than video games and I decided it was time for me to find a new one. Accomplished , I founded Guardian Longboards after deciding to design and build longboards.

4. Find a new look

Yes, a new look. People have known me and my mustache forever so I wanted to find something new to do. Failed, I tried a soul patch, growing out my hair, trimmed down my mustache, and lost some weight. I wasn’t happy with any of it (except for the lost weight). Maybe I really accomplished it, I don’t know.

5. Find someone new

I wanted to find someone new to be in my life. Failed, no excuses here.

6. Get into the school of education

I wanted to get into the school of education at SPU and officially change my major from Business to Education. Accomplished

7. Get published

I was working with an agent for several months and I was hoping it would go somewhere. Failed I worked with the agent for seven months only to be dropped without any notice.

All in all I think I did well in 2009 but I still think I could’ve done better.

–So for 2010 I have decided to attempt my failed resolutions again and add a few more.

1. Find somebody

I wasn’t actively looking in 09, but now in 2010 I’m going to put serious effort into the gal I find myself so stricken with. She knows it too, but there are a couple things we both fear: distance (some 2000 miles) and somehow hurting the other. I only hope there is a way to quell our mutual fears. Accomplished

2. Loose a little more weight

So I lost some weight this year but it wasn’t in a healthy way: I wasn’t eating whether it was stress or the lack of time I wasn’t eating and I lost about 12 pounds in the first 6 weeks of the first quarter of this school year. I have since regained five of those in order to stay healthy. I am determined to loose weight healthily this year and keep it off.

3. Finish another book

Now instead of only three projects I find myself with seven, yes seven books, “projects” as I call them that remain unfinished. I am driven to finish at least one of them this year.

4. Be a better person

Yes I know, what exactly does that mean? Well this year I was called a lot of things that I’d rather not repeat so I’m going to really pour on the “good guy” charm.

5. Make a little more money

Good joke huh considering I work in a mess hall and plan to be a teacher? Well, I’m hoping that I can find a way to this year.

6. Make peace with myself

I present a fairly calm and collected face to the general populace but if you’ve ever seen me when I think nobody is watching I become my own worst enemy. I look at myself and I can’t stand what I see because of what I blame myself with. I don’t know how I’m going to do it but I’ve got to do it.

7. Take better care of myself

Something I am famous or rather infamous for is my mantra, “I take better care of others than I’ll ever take care of myself.” Well, I can think of at least one person who will be happy to hear that I’m going to try and balance the scales on that. I said I’d do it once before but then my reason for doing so up and left me, and as the saying goes the rest is history. I’d get injured and just shake it off and keep going. I had myself checked out over the Christmas break and to say the least my Dr. wasn’t happy with me.

Well on that note, I wish you a Happy New Year and I hope 2010 treats you well. Feel free to criticize me or leave your own input, I encourage it.

No Side.

C.

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