Well it’s the double 3 today. Yup, one of those repititive kind of brithday numbers, 33.
Nothing special is planned, just a relaxing day at home. A couple of friends are likely coming over so we can eat copious amounts of bacon, enjoy a beer or two, and watch ‘I Am Legend’ (which I have to go purchase later as a birthday present for myself).
While I may be spending New Year at home feeling a little under the weather rather than out enjoying the evening with friends 2007 has been a pretty good year. Sure, this month hasn’t been that great, and it’s rather fitting that I’m ending the month feeling run down, but over all this has been a great year. After all I got engaged earlier this year, I’ve been enjoying my job over all, and I’ve taken a couple nice little vacations this year. There’s been no major negative things in 2007 - sure, many minor complaints, and some rough spots, but nothing terrible. I’ve got hope for 2008. I’ll be getting married in June, and hey, maybe there’s going to be some excellent trip in my future. Maybe my expectations are a little high for the new year, but considering expectations the past few years have been so low I think its safe to be a little excited for this one.
So to all of you, a happy and wonderful New Year! May your 2008 bring you everything you dream.
I’m not talking about the video game here, I’m burning out. The holidays are always tough - I don’t have a lot of that family or shopping stress - it’s just that because we have a bunch of students working here who all disappear around the holidays I end up working a crazy number of hours. Plus I end up dealing with other peoples holiday stress as we get people in here last minute shopping for random gifts. Then there’s all the running around after work because around the holidays everyone wants to get together, or go out and do this or that. I don’t really remember what my living room looks like anymore.
Today is a half day for me. The parents are in town so I’d like to see them for a little bit rather than always be at work while they’re here. Tomorrow though will be a full day of working. Saturdays are crazy days to work. Between tours and large groups, and just generally being just slightly more busy than two people can handle its going to wear the last bit of me out I’m sure. Fortunately Sunday there are no plans other than sitting on the couch. Maybe I’ll treat myself to a new XBox game and spend the whole day blowing up aliens or some such. It will be a good relaxing day. Life should return to some sense of normal around January 12th once our student staff get back in town. But for the time being its zombie mode for me.
For those who celebrate Christmas may it be merry and bright! For those of you who don’t I wish you much happiness and joy, and hopefully a wonderfully relaxing day off spending it in whatever manner you choose! While I don’t have much time off (just today in fact) I plan to use it wisely - doing as little as possible, eating good food, and enjoying the company of friends and (new)family. Here’s to hoping that the end of this year will start in motion the beginning of a brilliant next year!
As I had mentioned earlier I’m trying to bring a little more organization in to my life and I had been looking at various methods of doing so. One of my biggest hurdles has always been remembering things. I tend to remember I need to do something pretty much minutes before it needed to get done by. Things without a firm date have a tendency of sliding out of focus for me. Obviously this was the first thing I knew I’d need to address if I were to have any hope of bringing a little more order to my life (not too much order mind you, I do enjoy some amount of the chaos).
I had been pondering getting a PDA again, though I never used it as much as I should have - for whatever reason I just felt uncomfortable carrying one around so it was never with me when I needed to keep track of something. A few people have recently suggested I try using a Moleskine notebook. I looked at them a couple of times and they are very nice, so I made a mental note (ie, a bookmark in my browser) so that I might come back to that idea at a later date. Well yesterday I was reading some article on Lifehacker during a particularly slow moment at work and lo and behold they had a link to an article about converting a small Moleskine notebook in to your own custom day planner. This person actually made the decision to go from a PDA to a more simple approach to things and it inspired me. So last night I made a trip to Borders and ended up picking myself up a couple of the notebooks. One of the smaller ones (grid paper because they were out of the lined notebooks in that size) and one of the larger lined ones for jotting done story ideas, random observations, anything at all that might help the good ole’ creativity start flowing again.
I broke out the ruler and a drafting pen last night and started dividing the notebook, one week over two pages. Right now it only goes up until the end of June 2008, but I’ll add several more months to it. Then the last 60ish or so sheets will be used for todo lists, notes, etc. I bought some post-it note reinforced tabs so that I can divide the sections in the back accordingly.
Now I’m armed with my new lo-tech PDA and feeling ready to get something done! Or maybe just refill my coffee cup, it’s still early.
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