3 January 2006
I made a bunch of resolutions last year. This is how I got on.
Start a new job (10th Jan). - Yup. Got the business cards to prove it now too. Oddly, the moment I opened the envelope and looked at my business cards for the first time was the moment when it really hit home that I wasn't dreaming it.
Speak to my family at least once a week, whether I need to or not. - On average, maybe. Probably not though. Must do better in 2006.
Take at least one photo every day. - No. I did manage to take a staggering 7600 odd shots though, which is an average of 20 shots per day.
Get the most that I can out of the membership of the Photograhpers' Gallery that I was given for Christmas. - Unfortunately not, and yes, this embarrasses me quite a lot.
Allow myself to fail, learn from it and try again. - I'm still not comfortable with it, but I did fail, I did learn from it, and I did try again.
Spend more time with friends. - Despite several periods of intense hermitage, I actually did spend way more time being sociable last year.
Do more things I've never done before. - Loads. Way too many to list.
Love. - Yes.
Implement at least one redesign of this blog. - It probably counted more as a realign than a redesign, but yup.
Complete, submit and have a css Zen Garden entry accepted. - Not even close.
Listen to the radio more. - Yes, with the hilarious consequences of waking up shouting at the radio, or arriving at work wondering why I know random facts about sheep farming.
Laugh. - Oh yes, I did lots of this.
See more music performed live. - I don't think I quite broke the gig record from 2004, but I did see a fair amount of live music last year.
Read more books. - Not as many as I'd have liked, but reading was replaced by other things.
Walk more. - Technically yes (17 miles in the dark overnight counts as more, surely?), actually, no, not really.
Be thankful for what I have. - Yes, and no matter how shit my life seems sometimes, I know that I'm lucky to have the things I have.
Cry. - Far. Too. Much.
Be inspired, and do something about it. - Yup. (as evidenced by the steady incursion of yarn related posts in this here blog)
Write more. - In work, yes. At home, no.
Be selfish when necessary, and not feel guilty about it. - Nope, still rubbish at this.
Accept that not all of these things are possible, but do everything within my control do make them happen. - They might still be outwith my control, but I haven't got any better at accepting it.
Happy New Year. May 2006 be a good year in whatever way you deem necessary. Life's too short. Laugh often. Cry when you need to. Stop showing us up with your 'leet' design skills and lighten up on the knitting stuff. It's only wool!! (I'm kidding... it's yarn.. right?)
Learn how to spell Photograhpers...
(sorry.. start as you mean to go on, eh!)
Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow ye may get the Credit Card bill.
Geez, I'm impressed with the quality of resolutions. If not the stickiness of them. I've only got two so far, but I think i will have to seek inspiration from your good self and add a few more and then go public with them.
Shit, you'd have thought I'd have noticed that typo last year when I first posted it and then again when I cut and paste it for this post.
*cringe*
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