I know! It's already January 5th! It seems like I've blown the "procrastinate less/blog more" resolutions already this month, but I'll have you know that I have spent the last six days endlessly converting hundreds of posts from Textile2 to HTML and then reformatting them in order that they may be ready for the launch of the new onedegree.ca, the internet marketing blog we took over last year. It's taken six days to do one year's worth of posts and I've got two years to go and it's sucking my will to live.
But I am taking a break! Ha ha! Because if I wait too long, New Year's resolution time will be over - unless I wait for Chinese New Year. Which I seriously considered.
I love New Year's resolutions. I love reading yours - I love crafting my own - I basically love the idea that a "new year" equals a "new opportunity" to "suck less". I was pleased to note, when I checked last year's New Year's post, that I did manage to make good on several of my resolutions - I learned to knit socks against all odds, Flippy showed me how to make my blog searchable, we acquired a dog who forces me to exercise every day and while my various wages couldn't accurately be described as "livable", they do pay the rent. Also, I floss like it's going out of style, mainly because we don't have a dentist here yet.
Speaking of "becauses", 2007 was delightful in myriad ways, but it was also a fabulous year for excuses. FABULOUS. Living in Toronto for two months, adopting a dog, getting gay married - I had so many wonderful reasons to put things off! Like, for instance, learning to drive.
Hahahahaaaaa! I know! STILL!
I'm not going to bore you with why, because who cares? Suffice to say that, as part of my "embrace the new!" initiative, this WILL be the year that I actually do some driving. So...
1. Learn to drive. This means I will:
- Get my learner's license again
- Take a driver training course
- Memorize our gay marriage vows so that I can recite them to Katr as I careen down the street with her in the passenger seat, white-knuckled and screaming.
Will I be able to take the road test before the gay divorce comes through? History will decide! Or perhaps Katr's lawyer.
2. Locate some health care professionals.
The dog has a vet, but we don't have a doctor or a dentist. Or a hairdresser, for that matter - we've lived here for a year and we both still get our hair cut IN TORONTO.
3. Finish my play.
Heeeeeeeeeeeeey - It doesn't seem to be writing itself. I realize that while it's still in an "unfinished state", it is PERFECT and brilliant in my mind. Once I declare it "finished", then it will be judged by others who do not love it as I do and that will blow. But you know - sometimes things blow! And no one will die if this blows. So I need to get the fuck over it and finish it. Preferably before we have to give up the fabulous printer we're "testing".
4. Knit Padu's sweater.
I promised Padu a sweater for his birthday. Last year. Hahahaaaaa!
5. Be greener.
We do plenty of environmentally conscious things around the house and beyond - buying carbon offsets for the car and air travel, using re-usable bags at the grocery store, signing up with greendimes.com, running the car off the dog's gas, recycling my hilarious jokes - but I confess that there are times that I can't face scrubbing out the peanut butter jar and just toss it instead of recycling it. There - I said it! So this year I'm going to suck it and wash those jars out.
6. 10000 steps!
When I first starting walking the dog, I nearly expired. Seriously - going from almost completely sedentary to walking for 2+ hours a day nearly did me in. But I have come to love my daily outings with Emmy Lou. Now that I can walk briskly for well over an hour without shitting twice and dying, I think it's time for a kicky pedometer and some really good headphones, so that I can keep track of our ambulatory progress and listen to Prince. I look forward to hitting the seawall fatly and startling passerby with my strange hidden clicking and sudden, off-key singing. Huzzah!
Okay, so those are the most specific of my goals for 2008 - I think if I can pull these off, it could be a banner year! Maybe I could KNIT the banner! And attach it to the back of the car while driving it! And then get pulled over by the fuzz!
