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2010, or Good Riddance
I thought about making reservations for NYE dinner somewhere, but I never got around to it. So I stayed home and had shrimp cocktail and cucumber-and-tomato salad instead.
I'm trying to set things up so as to start the new year on the right foot. I paid bills today (and was pleasantly surprised by the amount left over), and have washed all the clothes that needed it. As soon as I put them away and do the dishes, I'll be as squared away as I'm going to get before midnight. I can live with that.
2010 was a hard year to get through. Some of it was good and some of it wasn't, but it was all difficult in one way or another. There's been entirely too much Medical Mystery Tour through various families this past year, for one thing. That tends to make everything else more difficult, even if it wasn't difficult to begin with.
Last winter I gave up soda. This year I'd like to give up eating so much as a result of stress. The stress isn't going to go away, but the eating too much could go away if I paid attention to it.
I think I'm also going to keep track of what I read. I'm curious as to how many books I get through in a year, whether I've read them before or not. (#1 is new; it's A Brief History of Mutiny, and I'm going to finish it tomorrow.)
The other thing I want to do in 2011, if at all possible, is get my student loan paid off. I was aiming at 2012 for that, but my current budget system seems to work quite well and I think I can do it this year. If I can't, I can still aim for 2012.
I think those three things are enough to be starting 2011 with.
Happy New Year, all!
I'm trying to set things up so as to start the new year on the right foot. I paid bills today (and was pleasantly surprised by the amount left over), and have washed all the clothes that needed it. As soon as I put them away and do the dishes, I'll be as squared away as I'm going to get before midnight. I can live with that.
2010 was a hard year to get through. Some of it was good and some of it wasn't, but it was all difficult in one way or another. There's been entirely too much Medical Mystery Tour through various families this past year, for one thing. That tends to make everything else more difficult, even if it wasn't difficult to begin with.
Last winter I gave up soda. This year I'd like to give up eating so much as a result of stress. The stress isn't going to go away, but the eating too much could go away if I paid attention to it.
I think I'm also going to keep track of what I read. I'm curious as to how many books I get through in a year, whether I've read them before or not. (#1 is new; it's A Brief History of Mutiny, and I'm going to finish it tomorrow.)
The other thing I want to do in 2011, if at all possible, is get my student loan paid off. I was aiming at 2012 for that, but my current budget system seems to work quite well and I think I can do it this year. If I can't, I can still aim for 2012.
I think those three things are enough to be starting 2011 with.
Happy New Year, all!