Did I say I was done with New Years-y talk? I lied. I really enjoyed what a few people did - predictions instead of resolutions, and I'd like to make some of those as well. Ready? Let's go!
1. I will be married. (As will Sister2. The year of the weddings!)
2. I will master meal planning!
3. Ryan and I will be house hunting. Fo' real. (We said we'd start looking this summer, but I expect it to take us 6 - 12 months to get serious.)
4. Roommate will have locked us into a drunken promise to name our first child after him.
5. I will have quit my Creative Self Actualization project and started something else. Probably a novel. (Just being honest.)
6. I'll run a half marathon and successfully work running into my weekly routine. At some point I'll probably start referring to myself as "a runner."
7. But I'll still hate it.
8. Ryan will be promoted.
9. I'll be contemplating a career change but won't quite have mustered up the courage to do it.
10. Luke will learn to open doors so he can sleep on our bed when we're gone.
11. We'll be doing research on babies and health and psychology. Not actually getting ready to have one, but just posting about it enough the blog to scare away my regular readers and keep my family members in a constant state of anticipation.
12. I'll start an anonymous secret blog somewhere in the Internet where I post D&D jokes, creative writing, and badly structured angry rants about my Facebook acquaintances. It will probably be called something like Monkey with a Keyboard. I will have no posting schedule, never show my real face, have only hand drawn images, and I will love it like a firstborn child.
13. I'll attend a blogging conference. Probably this one.
14. I'll finish reading War & Peace, despite Nadine's wise advice, "Dude, life is too short to read a bad book! Drop that shit!" Because I'm terrible at following advice. Even when I know it makes sense.
15. I'll have somehow managed to complicate my goals/resolutions/self actualization projects even more than they already are.
By this time next year...
1. I will be married. (As will Sister2. The year of the weddings!)
2. I will master meal planning!
3. Ryan and I will be house hunting. Fo' real. (We said we'd start looking this summer, but I expect it to take us 6 - 12 months to get serious.)
4. Roommate will have locked us into a drunken promise to name our first child after him.
5. I will have quit my Creative Self Actualization project and started something else. Probably a novel. (Just being honest.)
6. I'll run a half marathon and successfully work running into my weekly routine. At some point I'll probably start referring to myself as "a runner."
7. But I'll still hate it.
8. Ryan will be promoted.
9. I'll be contemplating a career change but won't quite have mustered up the courage to do it.
10. Luke will learn to open doors so he can sleep on our bed when we're gone.
11. We'll be doing research on babies and health and psychology. Not actually getting ready to have one, but just posting about it enough the blog to scare away my regular readers and keep my family members in a constant state of anticipation.
12. I'll start an anonymous secret blog somewhere in the Internet where I post D&D jokes, creative writing, and badly structured angry rants about my Facebook acquaintances. It will probably be called something like Monkey with a Keyboard. I will have no posting schedule, never show my real face, have only hand drawn images, and I will love it like a firstborn child.
13. I'll attend a blogging conference. Probably this one.
14. I'll finish reading War & Peace, despite Nadine's wise advice, "Dude, life is too short to read a bad book! Drop that shit!" Because I'm terrible at following advice. Even when I know it makes sense.
15. I'll have somehow managed to complicate my goals/resolutions/self actualization projects even more than they already are.
What's in the cards for you this year? Do you prefer predictions or resolutions?
