In comes 2013

[sincere]

Just a few minutes away from the start of the new year in my timezone. So here's some thoughts.

This was a big year for me -- I moved across the country and I made a new life in a new city and I finally got a job in my field, after years of trying and failing.

Things I want to do in 2013:

1) Be better about my inbox. Sometimes I let things stay in there for weeks, and then I feel guilty, so I let them stay in there for months. No more. Respond promptly.

2) Be better about my finances. I want to keep to the budget I drew up, whether that means carrying money in envelopes and not using my charge cards, or just keeping track on a notebook and trying to use willpower. I'm losing money at this job, but I need it for experience to get to a better job, so I need to do well.

3) Be better about my health. I want to lose weight for my sister's wedding in April. I want to exercise three times a week, even if just for half an hour on the elliptical. I want to not feel so guilty about a day's ice cream or Chinese food that I stop counting for a month. I want to do weekly posts, that I will update daily, with my food intake. Expect that to start tomorrow.

4) Be better about my work. I want references, and I want to keep up the references I have. I want to not be seen as "the girl who can't be trusted behind a desk because she'll goof off" or "the girl who doesn't do anything but sit behind the desk unless you make her". I want to be prepared with a new job lined up when summer break begins and I'm out of work.

And things I want to do for me, as a person... Write more. Play more. Internet surf less. Learn Spanish.

And stop thinking of life as a zero-sum game, where if other people are succeeding, I feel like that reflects badly on my failures, and so I give up, or try to shoot them down.

Dreaming big.

Happy New Year to all of you. I'm hoping that for everyone who reads this -- people I care for, and new subscribers, and total strangers -- I hope 2013 is a year where we all become better human beings, or at least evolve into higher lifeforms in brain containers where all strife seems a distant archive of our historical collective mind. ♥

Comments

[slayerofgod]

1) Be better about my inbox. Sometimes I let things stay in there for weeks, and then I feel guilty, so I let them stay in there for months. No more. Respond promptly.

Boy, can I relate to this one. >.>;

[king_touchy]

Happy New Year. I love a fresh beginning.

[temples]

I vote for "brain container", personally.

Happy 2013, Kay. Again. ♥

[prefacing]

Exercise with me, Kaaaay. I need to start exercising three days a week too.

I think all of these are excellent goals, though, and I hope you achieve all of them! Especially Spanish. You had best serenade me with a Spanish love song when you conquer Spanish mountain. Just kidding.

[sincere]

It doesn't help that I'm bad with confrontation, although my method for dealing with that can be pretty hilarious. Just recently I wrote a comment going, "I just wanted to let you know that I have a problem with the administration of this community because of XYZ and that's why I won't be participating," and then I never went to the community again and when I got a response I immediately archived it without reading it. But sometimes I can't just archive it, or it's on my journal etc, so instead I... let it sit in my inbox for two weeks without reading it.

So, yeah. I won't become avoidant and let things build up. After I finish commenting to you guys I'll have like 5 things in my inbox. And I want it to stay that way!

[sincere]

I agree completely. It's wonderful just to have the excuse to say, Now is the time to do this right, even if you haven't had much luck with that so far. Past failures can drag you down so easily.

[sincere]

It seems promising.

[sincere]

LET'S DO IT. Are you thinking about doing particular days, or just anytime in the week you can?

I would sing you one right now if I knew anything other than "Donde esta la biblioteca?"

[prefacing]

"Donde esta la biblioteca?" is pretty hot, not gonna lie.

And I do not have any particular days in mind yet! But I'm pretty flexible. How are you thinking of doing it?

[temples]

Indeed it does... Mayo. c:

[sincere]

I was thinking of trying to do it MWF when I get home from work... That way it's spreading it out, but not too much, you know?

[sincere]

/TANTRUMS

[prefacing]

That sounds like an excellent plan! And I think I thought of doing something similar, but never actually carried it out. (I think I currently exercise whenever I remember to....)

BUT OKAY. This will be a thing now. And I will document my progress each week, whether I actually manage to exercise three times or not.



........Noooo, I have the perfect gym icon for this but no space. Have it here instead:

[sincere]

I am so using that

And yeah! WE WILL DO THIS! It will be AWESOME!