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Starting a New Year.
Last year had its ups and downs in my life. Not that its uncommon, but mine tended to fluctuate a little more between the extremes than I would have liked them to. Today my grandmother passed away. To say this year isn’t off to an exemplary start is an understatement. But there is a lot of time left and who knows how things are going to go from here. There’s a lot I’d like to see come of this year and I’m going to have to really put my mind to it to make it all work.
With that said I thought maybe I’d make a little list, mostly for myself, so that at the end of the year I can look back and see exactly what I managed to accomplish.
- I need to write more. I’ve fallen out of the habit and I’d really like to get back in to it. The end of 2009 I actually made some headway so I want to ride that momentum through 2010 and have something to show for it.
- In the vein of the above, I want to focus more on this blog. Maybe give it some actual focus, but for now I’ll just settle for getting in to a routine of regular posting.
- Finish painting the inside of the house, remodeling the home office, getting the nursery ready, and fixing up the sun room so its actually usable for this year.
- While I’m most likely not going to be looking for full time work I’d like to find something part time, or at least get some freelance writing and/or computer consulting gigs going to start bringing in a little bit extra – especially with the baby due in March.
- I’d like to get back in to painting Warhammer miniatures. I don’t know if I’ll actually get back in to play Warhammer at all, but I always found the painting relaxing and it would be great to get back in to that habit as well. Hobbies have been sorely lacking in my life the last several years.
- Finish cleaning the basement. It’s chaos down there but this is totally doable. I managed to clean the one part in only a couple of days, so taking care of the rest can be done with a week of solid work on it.
- Finally, I want to get the hang of catching passed on the back hand in hockey. That’s going to be my one developmental skill to work on with the rest of this season.
I don’t know how much of this I’ll accomplish, but all of it is absolutely doable. I just need to find a little more routines in my life to get the creative energies going and to chase away the blahs that haunted me through most of 2009.
So here we go 2010 – stumbled at the start and fell flat on my face, but let’s see if I can’t pick myself back up and fight my way back in to the thick of things.
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Jan 1st, 2010
Banging around the house.
Lately I’ve been managing to keep myself busy around the house. I’ve been doing repainting and repairs around the house – there’s certainly more than enough that needs to be taken care of. So far I’ve managed to paint the guest bedroom which was badly in need of it. While it’s not the shade of yellow I would have picked, it has certainly grown on me. It’s a very warm and inviting color. All the trim is finally done, and other than touching up a few spots I’m ready to start moving stuff in to the guestroom to get it all setup.
The other day we ripped out our old front door and put in a brand new one. The old one was pretty badly hung, and the area cut out for the door isn’t exactly straight. It took us a bit of sawing, chiseling, and sanding down of things to get the new door frame in straight. It’s in nicely now. A brand new door knob and lock and it really looks greats. Just need to touch up a little bit of paint on the frame and the door but that won’t taken terribly long.
The next big project is putting in the new ceiling fan that we bought. We’re calling in a little help on that one as a lot of new electrical needs to be run and we’d rather have that taken care of by someone who knows what the hell they are doing. It’ll be nice to have the fan (and light) in here. It gets a little bit stuffy in the summer so it will be really nice to have some airflow in here. It’s even reversible so that you can circulate the warm air in the winter.
After that I’ll be replacing all the light switches in the house with matching ones rather than the mismatched collection that came with the place. I’m also going to fix one of the dimmer lights that never worked quite right. There’s also some GFCI outlets that need to be installed for the bathroom sinks and by the kitchen sink.
Finally I’m going to set up the room we’ve been using as a library/storage as a home office/library. That will mostly involve a lot of moving stuff around and finding places for things. Likely it will mean more stuff being piled in to the basement – the basement that is a project for a much later date. Right now my focus is on the upstairs and finding a home for everything. It’s a great feeling to be busy again.
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Jul 1st, 2009
Happy Birthday to me!
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).
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Mar 30th, 2008
Happy New Year!
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.
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Dec 31st, 2007
Super Burnout.
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.
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Dec 28th, 2007