Birthday Resolutions January 28, 2008
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It’s the first time I’ve decided these are in order. And in fact it will be only one – to follow through on my New Year’s resolutions, those were good. I had a birthday yesterday, the 26th one of those. Low key. I’m over the mid-20s hill, though, so I’m feeling melancholy.
It has been a good year, a successful year, especially by outside measure, I’m sure. Yet, I feel stagnation in my aspirations and that is what I’m pushing through with this new approach – the birthday resolution. I guess it should have come to me sooner as the day is so close to the new year pinnacle. I suppose in the past I’ve always been driven by a goal or an upcoming landmark. Today that is grad school and the next “chapter” in my life with my loved one (specifically my significant other). I’d hate for our plans and our dreams – of grad school, eventually teaching and writing, buying a condo in one of our favorite cities/metropolis areas, etc. to stay just that – plans.
I’m getting too old for talk and musings and no action, research, hard work and studying – those are the things I must do this year, those are the things I feel like doing this year.
I’ll keep you posted. 
More often than I have – this too is one of my new birthday goals.
Happy New Year January 1, 2008
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It’s too bad that I’ve gotten so lazy about updating my blog. In fact, that is one of my new year resolutionls, yet to be written down. Yes, I’ve fallen behind not just on blogging but a few other things around the home. A week and a half off around the holidays was restful, but spent with family and friends, it also simply put a lot of the to-do lists at home behind schedule.
There were so many things to write about before and during the holidays and now they have all slipped away from my mind. It is mid-afternoon and the wind is blowing persistently outside the windows. I have been productive working on a new job opportunity application – not that I was looking, but I had two people call me and alert me about the opening. The opportunity is such I cannot afford to let it slip by. At the same time, the geographical location is making me a bit uneasy. The responsibilities are numerous and heavy, though, so I do not anticipate to get past an initial interview, if even that far.
Sent more than two dozen holiday cards this year. First Christmas with my baby as a household, the way he says it. We had our own Christmas tree, a small, beautiful and fragrant thing. We had lots of fun shopping for ornaments for it.
We visited his family for Christmas Eve and my family for Christmas Day. Had dinner with a close friend we hadn’t seen in a long while. Saw one of our favorite parts of Seattle on a cold holiday night. Spent some time with friends for an Old Year’s party. Talked at length about restlessnaess, happiness, satisfying work that makes you happy, and where “home” is.
We got our new Oregon licenses. (Finally.) We spent New Year’s Eve with friends and played the Wii for a while, teasing ourselves.
I’ve completely sunk into a book about Audrey Hepburn. And we’ve played a lot of Nintendo DS. Both Christmas presents. We’ve watched a lot of Planet Earth as well, not so much a Christmas present as a holiday gift to ourselves.
I still miss many of my friends I didn’t have a chance to see over the holiday trip to the Puget Sound. Yet, surprisingly Portland felt very comfortable and homey when we arrived back here Sunday evening.
I better go list my resolutions before those slip away from mind as well. And you can check out this cool story about Starbucks and small independent coffee houses.
