although we're a couple of days into the new year, i still find it hard to believe that 2009 has already come and gone. it's also weird to think that this time 2 years ago, i had a near-death experience, and i was preparing to go abroad to korea for half a year. i'm too lazy to do the whole requisite reflecting-back-on-the-year gig; to sum it up, 2009 was okay, but not without some major glitches along the road (a certain SZ sticks out like a sore thumb).
so i've never really been big into making new year's resolutions because i know i won't be able to keep them, but i thought this year i'd give it a try...so here goes nothing:
1) try to figure out what i want to do with my life.
i've bought myself a little bit of time by doing the whole AmeriCorps VISTA year-of-service thing, but i only have until july. granted, that's still 6 months away, but at the rate time has been flowing this past year, it'll come to an end all too soon and i don't want to be stuck having no idea what to with myself or my future.
2) get the heck out of minneSNOWta.
no offense, die-hard minnesotans, but i've never been a huge fan of minnesota. i only came here for college, and then ended up staying for completely the wrong reason (note to self: never base future plans off of one guy). i hate the bitter cold, and i only like snow in little doses. just from those two statements it's pretty obvious that i'm living in the wrong place. i don't know where i'll end up once my year of service is up, but you can bet it won't be in MN. also, the exorbitant amount of money i've had to pay to the city of st. paul in the past couple weeks has just hardened my determination to get out of here.
3) read more books.
ever since i started dating my (somewhat new) boyfriend, i started spending almost all of my waking hours with him and neglected my books. reading has always been a love of mine, and i think it's time to rekindle that love. plus i feel like i need to hurry up and read all the books peace has lent me, and i don't like the guilty/bad feeling i get when i look at my measly, neglected collection of books on my bookshelf.
4) exercise.
i can feel myself getting lazier and pudgier these days. now, before all 3 readers of my blog start yelling at me, saying that i'm not fat, let me offer up an explanation. i know i'm not fat, but it's becoming more and more of a struggle to pull up my jeans and button them. seeing as i only make about $790 a month after taxes, and $485 goes towards rent, ~$35 for utilities and ~$60 for gas for my car, that doesn't leave much money for me to go shopping. so, rather than try to scrape together money i don't have to buy new jeans, i've decided to take advantage of the fact that macalester offers alums access to its athletic facility for free for a year after said alumnus/alumna's graduation.
that's all i can think of for now, and it's probably just as well since i'll probably have a hard time keeping all 4 of those resolutions...
oh, and i dedicate this post to suma, who urged me to update through FB as i was in the midst of writing this post, haha
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