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