So that was January..
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elissandeso that means that it's way past time for me to do a New Year posting but I don't think I'll let that stop me.
So on to NY resolutions!
Well, I think these are generally made to be forgotten by the end of January - which is past already, so consider them made and forgotten.
So now I'm going to do my New Year general intentions and achievable objectives (I know it's not catchy, but at least it's realistic).
In his December 31 2001 blog (and referred to again in 2004, which is how I found it) Neil Gaiman said:
"May your 2002 be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't to forget make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in 2002, you surprise yourself."
This seemed like a good place to start. With my assortment of friends and associates, I think that good madness is is going to be unavoidable; magic and dreams will come as they will and can't be forced or planned so I'll just hope they happen.
I've already made a start on reading some fine books and kissed someone who thinks I'm wonderful (or if he doesn't he's a damn fine actor and is altogether in the wrong business). I don't think that the art/creating/making/building will be much of a problem - MUS is starting rehearsals for Handel's 'Israel in Egypt' tonight and there'll be another concert before the end of the year; I've go a zillion pieces of garb to make before Festival (at Easter); lots of pieces to learn on the harp; as well I've got a monthly newsletter for the local SCA group, a two monthly physics journal and probably a couple of concert programs to produce.
Not sure about the surprising myself - another thing that will happen or not as the year passes. I'm not sure what I might do to surprise myself, but therein, of course, is the surprise.
So, well on the way to most of that, but what about
- For health reasons, I'd like to lose a bit more weight. Nothing startling or unachievable, about another 5 kilos would be good. I think I should manage that over the year.
- Play harp more: I need to get myself up to a level where I can play a few things in public - even by candlelight when I can't distinguish string colour)
- Improve my sewing skills: I have so much garb to make, that they're going to improve by practice anyway. If I can do just a little better than that, I'll consider this goal met.
- Get the house organised: we've been putting this off ever since Styvyn moved up. We've made a bit of a start with the bedroom redecoration, but the rest of the house is still as crowded and disorganised as the back room of a junk shop. This is the one thing that I'm a bit worried about achieving - I'm sure that some of it will get done, but not so sure that the whole house will be organised properly by the end of this year - we have far too many outside interests that are time consuming and as Styvyn is going to be a tourney bunny this year, we'll be away a fair few weekends.
- Read more than I did last year: Last year was a slow year for reading - I blame computer games, but I think I have that addiction under control now.... really....
- Get more exercise: A sedentary job hasn't done my cardiovascular system any favours. We bought an elliptical strider in December and, wonder of wonders, we've been using it. But I want to add other exercise as well, just need to work out things that will fit into my life arrangements.
Things that would be nice to do this year but are only possibilities as I'm not going to guarantee they'll happen:
- Take up rapier: If they start having rapier classes at our regular meetings, then that is a real possibility and fits in nicely with the more exercise bit above.
- Start a business with a friend: This depends on both of us having the time to get together to work out the details. I think it will happen, but life is full of surprises.
I think I'm going to stop there. It's starting to look daunting. Somehow a year just doesn't seem long enough these days.
So on to NY resolutions!
Well, I think these are generally made to be forgotten by the end of January - which is past already, so consider them made and forgotten.
So now I'm going to do my New Year general intentions and achievable objectives (I know it's not catchy, but at least it's realistic).
In his December 31 2001 blog (and referred to again in 2004, which is how I found it) Neil Gaiman said:
"May your 2002 be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't to forget make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in 2002, you surprise yourself."
This seemed like a good place to start. With my assortment of friends and associates, I think that good madness is is going to be unavoidable; magic and dreams will come as they will and can't be forced or planned so I'll just hope they happen.
I've already made a start on reading some fine books and kissed someone who thinks I'm wonderful (or if he doesn't he's a damn fine actor and is altogether in the wrong business). I don't think that the art/creating/making/building will be much of a problem - MUS is starting rehearsals for Handel's 'Israel in Egypt' tonight and there'll be another concert before the end of the year; I've go a zillion pieces of garb to make before Festival (at Easter); lots of pieces to learn on the harp; as well I've got a monthly newsletter for the local SCA group, a two monthly physics journal and probably a couple of concert programs to produce.
Not sure about the surprising myself - another thing that will happen or not as the year passes. I'm not sure what I might do to surprise myself, but therein, of course, is the surprise.
So, well on the way to most of that, but what about
- For health reasons, I'd like to lose a bit more weight. Nothing startling or unachievable, about another 5 kilos would be good. I think I should manage that over the year.
- Play harp more: I need to get myself up to a level where I can play a few things in public - even by candlelight when I can't distinguish string colour)
- Improve my sewing skills: I have so much garb to make, that they're going to improve by practice anyway. If I can do just a little better than that, I'll consider this goal met.
- Get the house organised: we've been putting this off ever since Styvyn moved up. We've made a bit of a start with the bedroom redecoration, but the rest of the house is still as crowded and disorganised as the back room of a junk shop. This is the one thing that I'm a bit worried about achieving - I'm sure that some of it will get done, but not so sure that the whole house will be organised properly by the end of this year - we have far too many outside interests that are time consuming and as Styvyn is going to be a tourney bunny this year, we'll be away a fair few weekends.
- Read more than I did last year: Last year was a slow year for reading - I blame computer games, but I think I have that addiction under control now.... really....
- Get more exercise: A sedentary job hasn't done my cardiovascular system any favours. We bought an elliptical strider in December and, wonder of wonders, we've been using it. But I want to add other exercise as well, just need to work out things that will fit into my life arrangements.
Things that would be nice to do this year but are only possibilities as I'm not going to guarantee they'll happen:
- Take up rapier: If they start having rapier classes at our regular meetings, then that is a real possibility and fits in nicely with the more exercise bit above.
- Start a business with a friend: This depends on both of us having the time to get together to work out the details. I think it will happen, but life is full of surprises.
I think I'm going to stop there. It's starting to look daunting. Somehow a year just doesn't seem long enough these days.
