Hope you all had fabulous New Year's celebrations, whether you went to a wild party or whether, like us, you watched other people's wild parties from your balcony with binoculars and took bets on which young lady would take her top off first. Woooooo! Fireworks and voyeurism - tasty!
I've enjoyed reading other peoples' New Year's resolutions the last couple of days and naturally, I have been considering my own. A short list follows.
1. SOCKS!
As I noted in my last post, 2007 will be my year of learning to knit socks. When I first started knitting, I thought socks were STUPID. And now I long to learn. And learn I shall! And speaking of learning . . .
2. Learn to drive.
Seriously. How did I not learn to drive this year? I got my learner's permit in August of Two Thousand and Fucking FIVE, I had no steady job and my friend Chgi and I took this truck:
across Canada on a 4487 km Fringe tour from July to September. And STILL - I do not have my driver's license.
Given the above conditions, not learning to drive clearly took some dedication on my part. But to be fair, up until Katr and I began the "moving to Vancouver" process, the need, the HUNGER to learn to drive - not so much there. As the year progressed, however, my "driving only WITH MY MIND" status started to become a real hindrance and now, I'm deeply annoyed with myself. I can think of half a dozen times this past holiday alone when it would have been great if I could have taken our car, Chloe, for a little errand running or to drop people at the airport or to go drag racing down Granville Street. Also, when I was calling all my aunts to tell them Katr and I were engaged, I promised one of them I would learn to drive before I got married. I don't remember which aunt - but I bet that aunt will remember and will embarrass me in public if I haven't learned by then.
3. Be able to "search" my blog.
Creampuff Revolution is like Hogwarts. You won't happen upon it through some random search for "porn podcast" or "catspiracy" - you can only find it if you already know where it is. Something between my domain and my blog is fuckered up and this year, I am going to figure out why the fuck Google won't index my site. I've submitted sitemaps and whiny inquiries, all for naught. Being like Hogwarts makes me feel special, don't get me wrong - but damn, I'd like to be able to search my own damn blog so that I can laugh at my own jokes from posts past. What gives, Google?
4. 30 minutes a day. At least.
We are SO getting a dog this year (breed undecided). And I don't know if you know this, but dogs need to go for walks! So that they stay healthy and don't shit in your bed! As much. By the time we get the dog, I don't want walking the dog a couple of times a day to kill me because I'm so pathetically out of shape. So I started my 30 minutes of walking/swimming/ bungee-jumping/extreme knitting about a week ago and already I feel brighter-eyed and bushier-tailed AND, according the Katr, "yappier". Yep. It's gonna be a good year, people!
5. Procrastinate less, accomplish more, eat more fibre to offset my genetic legacy of ass issues, continue my good flossing habits, actually make a liveable wage, blah blah blah.
Best wishes for 2007! May resolutions be kept, opportunities leapt upon and end-of-the-season eggnog consumed! By me! Could the year start off any better? History will decide.
