Oh-Nine

Another year has started...and I am older but none the wiser.
Okay, so that last statement may be fictitious, but I certainly was not looking forward to ending another year and I really became irritated about the big hoopLAH of what a new year brings. What is the big deal? So the Earth has finished rotating around the sun...so? That dictates how you want to change your life and gives us this surmountable pressure to list all these things we want to do in the next 365 days and if we fall short we are failures? Eh, I'm not so much of a fan of setting myself up for disappointment.
Now what I might say next may make you think of me as hypocritical (get used to it-I'm allowed, it's my blog). After my initial annoyance of New Year's Resolutions, I began to think what I want to accomplish in Oh-Nine. I look at them as "goals" however and not so much as resolutions. Not any of that, "I'm going to work out everyday" and "No more Reeses Pieces Peanut Butter Cups for me" garbage. More like, I'm just going to be the best person that I can be and here are a few things I need to do, places I need to go, and habits that need to be avoided.
Things I need to do:
-Continue to read as much as possible
-WRITE!!!!!!!!! WRITE!!!!!!!!! WRITE!!!!!!! (Hence the creation of my blog)
-Throw parties for obscure holidays just for the hell of it and to spend time with friends :)
-Continue to be the best correspondent I can be and keeping in touch with my family and extended family (AKA good friends)


Places I need to go:
CHECK-DC for Inauguration
-Peru in November
-Somewhere in the states that isn't glamourous but probably fantastic

Habits that need to be avoided:
-Being unproductive on weekends (Well, I can be lazy to an extent)
-Getting all worked up over the small things (And as Frances McDormand and George Clooney remind us on the fabulous film that IS 'Burn After Reading'..."They're ALL small things")
DISCLAIMER: This does not mean I am not ever going to get irritated, upset, or cry. I am afterall human.


These lists are subject to change and grow.