Ballard. Sunday. 4:08PM.
Dear Internet,
So I have some big plans for this year. Mayan calendar be damned.
I don’t really like New Year’s Resolutions. Mainly because they tend to be big grand things that sound like a brilliant idea at the time and on the morning of January 3rd you realize what horse-puckey you’ve come up with. No one can change all facets of their lives for the better simultaneously, nor instantaneously.
It’s like my car.
My car is an unholy filth-pit. I keep my house pretty darn clean, and while my desk piles up sometimes I do deal with the piles. There is not currently more than one stack of books on the floor anywhere in my house. (And if you saw the household I grew up in, you’d consider that an achievement.) But you’ve got to have at least one area where you don’t need to hold it together. I somewhat treasure my filthy car because it’s something I don’t feel the need to fix. I can reorder my day so that going to the gym actually happens, I can be vigilant about homework, the garden, the chores, paying attention to the other humans I care about….but my car can go right to hell. It’s a mess. I’m fine with that.
Anyway, there are a couple of plans I have for this year, in lieu of resolutions.
First!
I am going to indulge the little part of me that wants to learn html. It’s out of my usual wheelhouse, but I’m interested and damn it I am sick of trying to find a decent WordPress theme and would rather make one myself. Besides, Mikeatron said it would be hot if I knew HTML5. And clearly sex appeal is the main reason why one ups one’s computer skills, right? Right?
Second!
I am going to actually be vigilant in the garden this year and plant and/or harvest as close to year-round as possible. Gardening is something I am really excited about and often forget to do daily. Same goes with writing, I suppose.
Third!
I want to make delicious progress towards my thesis goals in grad school. It’s easy to consider this a “plan” when it’s already definitely happening, but still. I will be writing short stories. I will be writing comics. Hopefully, if all goes well, I will be at Emerald City ComicCon with my and Ben’s minicomic. We shall see.
Happy New Year,
Anne
2 comments
Angie
April 18, 2012 at 5:17 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
So are you learning HTML? There was a time in my life when teaching myself XHTML and CSS actually came in handy at work, but not anymore, so I’ve sadly forgotten most of it, but it’s totally fun.
Anne Bean
April 20, 2012 at 7:00 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I’m dabbling in a little XHTML and CSS action. Hopefully this means sexy new website look over the summer, plus eventually webcomic–I have 18ish page mini comic that’s going up sometime in the next year or so. (As in, I’ve written it, but another artist is drawing it, and she has like a life and stuff so it’ll take a hot second.)