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Showing posts with label goal. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

So my birthday...

...was just another day

For the most part.

Good day though. very light night at work. A local restaurant did bring the staff a considerable amount of food. I ate more than I should have throughout the night. More to work off after the holidays are over, but I'm not complaining. It was quite the relaxing night and I don't get many of those.

Some of the good people at TheologyOnline wished me a happy birthday, that was cool.

My mother bought me something, I don't know what yet. Haven't had a chance to find out.

I'm thinking back over the last year, it wasn't the best -

  • An argument with my father resulted in me moving out of my parents' house again before I was ready. I wanted to finish out my degree.
  • I moved twice and that about killed my finances for a while. The last move was into the ghetto.
  • There's several more people that I used to call my friends that I will never speak to again. Many of them I doubt were friends to begin with. Acquaintances at best.
  • I missed out on DragonCon.
  • I missed out on a Crüxshadows concert.
  • I didn't do any performing.
  • I bought another car, only to have it breakdown on me.
  • I couldn't get financed for the car I really wanted.
But on the good side of things -

  • I lost a little more weight.
  • I have my own place and it's all mine.
  • I think I may have grown up a little.
  • I'm in great health.
  • I have a girlfriend that loves me and has stayed with me through all the bad stuff. She's been so loving and supportive too.
  • Through hard work I got my finances back in order.
  • I've made some new friends. At least one of which was very unlikely.

So I'm not totally bitter. I'm trying not to be bitter at all. I have some plans and goals before the next birthday -

  • Go back to college.
  • Get my girlfriend moved in.
  • Lose more weight, I'd like to drop about 60 lbs.
  • Get a better job.
  • Move out of the ghetto.
  • Fix the Escort and either sell it or start driving it.
  • Get some work done on the Beetle.
  • Spend more time practicing on my violin.
  • Work more with music. I'd love to record something. Or at least perform an original work.
  • Try to more closely follow Stoicism.

Looks like a lot, let's see what happens in the next year.