2009 was definitely “The Year of the Suck” (personally speaking). I’ve found myself looking forward to the new year in hope of a lot of positive changes coming our way. And I’d have to say that 2010 has had a promising start already. New Year’s Day we visited with friends and family that we haven’t seen in ages. On the 2nd we honored a friend who’s home on leave from Iraq with a LAN party. Yesterday we pretty much vegged and today I’m back at work, but I guess I can’t complain too much about that. I have a job, and know many who are still looking (including my husband).
I’ve spent the last couple months realizing and appreciating the things for which I am truly grateful. I have a husband and daughter who love me. We have a roof over our heads and food on the table. I have wonderful and supportive friends and loved ones. I have a job. I have hope … I hold on to faith that things will work out in the end — even if I can’t see how they will or am desperately afraid that they won’t.
This is the time of year most people make their resolutions, right? I see many things I don’t like about myself or my life that I’d like to change.
The “musts”
- Get it together. I used to be better organized, and I definitely need to work on this — in both my professional and personal lives.
- Continue to control my spending and stick to a budget. Jim’s being out of work initiated this, but it’s something that I need to keep in check more.
- Lose weight and exercise more. Honestly, I don’t feel healthy and the extra weight I’ve gained since the wedding has had some negative effects on my general health and well-being. And, as much as I hate to admit to vanity, I really do think I looked a LOT better back then.
- Implement a better backup solution and upgrade to Windows 7. My backup drive (which was a “backup” in name only) recently went T.U. and I was rightfully scared, thinking I had lost nearly 7 years worth of data, projects, family photos, etc. Luckily for me, my wonderful husband brought it back from the brink of death and recovered everything. I had been putting this off for the better part of a year and since I bought a copy of Windows 7, having a fresh system would be a great time to sit down and better organize my data and get a REAL backup solution in place.
- Spend more time focused on my family. There’s always room for improvement — I want to be a better a wife, and a better mother.
The “might actually get done soon”
- Release another Firefox addon. I’ve been testing a simple Firefox addon for Aion. It’s been tested on several different versions of Windows and the feedback I’ve received has been promising. While I’d like to learn how to advance my programming skills more, actually releasing a working project is a good step in the right direction. :)
The “would like’s”
- Do more artistic stuff. I haven’t touched my graphics in ages. I have been neglecting my WordPress themes. I never really sit down and WRITE anymore. I need to work more on my creative outlets.
- Blog more. Hopefully if/when things get better, I will have more time/energy/desire to blog more here. There’s so much that I want to talk about sometimes, but lack the time or desire to sit down and type it out.
- Learn more. There are many things I’d love to learn. More cooking. More web design. More programming. Another language or three. I used to read up about anything and everything, and I need to start up again.
So here’s to a new year, and to hope. I’ve got a lot of work ahead of me.
Uncle Monster
Hey, I have some girlfriends I can hug and my hands can’t
touch but I love them anyway. Besides, fat girls make
better lovers. You don’t need a bed, once you get them
jiggling they stay in motion for a while like a water
bed and they appreciate it more than the ectomorphic
model types. Not only that, they’re a lot more fun to
wrassle with.
[8~{} Uncle Monster
Don
Uncle Monster must be a wise old man like me. His is the best advice I’ve seen anyone offer to anyone in ages. A ^5 to him!
Besides, unless we see a photo of “fat Nicki†we don’t know if she’s actually as overweight as she thinks she is.
Maybe he should have said that fat girls jiggle like Jell-O and are even more delicious. :-)
Ben
if you really want to get more done Nicky, you need to read “Getting Things Done” it is as good as everyone says.
I hope you had an ok christmas etc. I’m looking forward to some more words from you in 2010.
Chin up. *hugs*
Rick
A few things on your list would be right at home on my list. Particularly the ones that deal with health and spending.
I’m predicting an Oregon State/’Bama BCS game next year. Remember, you heard it here first. For now, though, Roll Tide! Hope you beat down those Longhorn sons of B’s.
Hope your 2010 goes better. Oh, and I pronounce it “twenty ten” and not “two thousand ten” like some moron.
Marie
Hey Nicki! I’m hoping for all the best for your and your loved ones this year.
Christine
Found your site, via link, when I was looking through different themes. It is time for an upgrade and I am being very lazy instead of making one myself. :)
So, I started looking through your Word to the Press content, and I found this post.
Your first line jumped right out of the page at me, almost knocking me off my chair! “2009 was definitely “The Year of the Suck†(personally speaking).”
Gee, that sounds so familiar!
And then I read some more of the post, and laughed and nodded my head a few times, thinking to myself… I know my name is not Nicki, but good heavens, I could have written that. ;)
All I can say is… keep hoping, for the strength to get through it all. Keep blogging, even if you don’t post it, blog it, just to ‘get it out’. (I do that a lot!) Cook, bake, whatever… keep doing it, keep learning and don’t forget, it’s okay to say, enough. I also do that, even if I only get 2 minutes of quiet to think or preferably not think, it helps.
Wish you lived closer, only 600 or so miles away (I have family in Cullman and Calera), I think I’d like you. :)
Now I’m off to play with the ‘Floral Belle’ theme and see about tweeking it a little.
Marie
Here’s to hope! I’ve continued to pray for you and hope that things are better.