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winterbadger) wrote2008-01-03 12:20 pm
winterbadger) wrote2008-01-03 12:20 pm
new year
The New Year's holiday was nice. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
soccer_fox and I spent it with gr_c17 and two of our neighbors, K and C, who we're getting to be friends with. We provided dinner, they provided dessert and champagne, and everyone provided hors d'oeuvres, including gr_c17's delicious crab dip, K&C's Buffalo Wing dip (shredded chicken with sour cream, cheese, and spices) and baba ganoush from us. We all had dinner (steaks from N's parent, grilled by K; green beans; and a tasty dish of couscous that N made with mushrooms and olives) and talked about movies at our place, then went to theirs and played with their new Wii and watched "The Apartment" and toasted the new year. Good times.
Then the next day, B and I played several games of Memoir '44 while N cleaned like a fury then went to lunch with her friend MikeyG. Then B and I met N atjohn_arundel and ethanninis_mom's, where we had been invited for festivities. P cooked more steaks, and we all talked to and mingled with them and their kids, her parents, her sister's family, and some neighbors. It was really great fun.
New Year's resolutions are so fraught with danger--will one really carry through on them? will one feel foolish making a lot of resolutions one doesn't keep? But its still so tempting. So here are mine.
1. Marrysoccer_fox. :-)
2. Lose weight, eat better, and get more fit.
3. Try harder to live in and enjoy the moment, and get less of my pleasure (and pain) from being entangled with the past and the future). Try to be kinder to people, less judgmental, and more generous.
4. Finish my MA (I'm not sure about this one--it may or may not make sense to do so; if I leave my current work field, I will find a substitute goal to replace this one, like getting more professional certifications for my alternate profession)
I think that's enough to be going on with. There are many other things I'd like to do (thin out my libraries a bit, complete a couple of long bike rides, spend more time with my cats, keep in better touch with my mother and my sister Cornelia, see more of the world, journal about what I'm reading, learn a new language, teach myself at least a few rudiments of playing the guitar, actually develop a couple of game designs I've been kicking around, try my hand at writing), but I don't know that putting those on my list of resolutions will make it any likelier that they will get done.
soccer_fox and I spent it with gr_c17 and two of our neighbors, K and C, who we're getting to be friends with. We provided dinner, they provided dessert and champagne, and everyone provided hors d'oeuvres, including gr_c17's delicious crab dip, K&C's Buffalo Wing dip (shredded chicken with sour cream, cheese, and spices) and baba ganoush from us. We all had dinner (steaks from N's parent, grilled by K; green beans; and a tasty dish of couscous that N made with mushrooms and olives) and talked about movies at our place, then went to theirs and played with their new Wii and watched "The Apartment" and toasted the new year. Good times.Then the next day, B and I played several games of Memoir '44 while N cleaned like a fury then went to lunch with her friend MikeyG. Then B and I met N at
john_arundel and ethanninis_mom's, where we had been invited for festivities. P cooked more steaks, and we all talked to and mingled with them and their kids, her parents, her sister's family, and some neighbors. It was really great fun.New Year's resolutions are so fraught with danger--will one really carry through on them? will one feel foolish making a lot of resolutions one doesn't keep? But its still so tempting. So here are mine.
1. Marry
soccer_fox. :-)2. Lose weight, eat better, and get more fit.
3. Try harder to live in and enjoy the moment, and get less of my pleasure (and pain) from being entangled with the past and the future). Try to be kinder to people, less judgmental, and more generous.
4. Finish my MA (I'm not sure about this one--it may or may not make sense to do so; if I leave my current work field, I will find a substitute goal to replace this one, like getting more professional certifications for my alternate profession)
I think that's enough to be going on with. There are many other things I'd like to do (thin out my libraries a bit, complete a couple of long bike rides, spend more time with my cats, keep in better touch with my mother and my sister Cornelia, see more of the world, journal about what I'm reading, learn a new language, teach myself at least a few rudiments of playing the guitar, actually develop a couple of game designs I've been kicking around, try my hand at writing), but I don't know that putting those on my list of resolutions will make it any likelier that they will get done.