fare thee well, '07
Dec. 31st, 2007 10:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janegodzillaI've been trying to write up a "year in review" post as we move into 2008, but I keep coming up blank. It's not that nothing happened, but more that I can rather neatly divide the year into pre-September (broke, depressed, miserable, grieving, trapped) and post-September (jittery, anxious, worried, busy), and to break it down much more than that seems like overkill. 2007 seems as though it's been a remarkably weird and unfortunate year for a lot of people, myself included, and I can only hope that 2008 ends up going better. I'm hopeful -- my early (and mercifully brief) "argh, I'm single over Christmas!" woes aside, I currently feel better than I have in a long, long time, and I feel like I'm finally getting my act together. 2008 is going to be a good year. I'm determined to make it so.
Last year, I think I'd resolved to lose weight and eat better (I think...I have the memory of a goldfish when it comes to resolutions, and this one has been a running resolution for the past five years or so). Much to my surprise, I actually followed through with this one -- I went from 144 to 118 and walk a mile or so every day, and I've cut fast food from my diet entirely. I feel surprisingly good about myself, which...has not been the case since, oh, high school. Yay. This year, my resolutions are a little more material in nature: I want to get my Oregon driver's license (technically, this is more of a "to do" list entry, but it can't hurt to add it to the resolutions list as well), I want to finish at least one of the three novel projects I'm currently poking at, and I want to edit said novel into something worthy of submission. I also want to start figuring grad school shit out as well, but that's a lot more nebulous as resolutions go, since that could mean anything from deciding on a major to saving the money to applying to a program. So...many...options, argh. I wish I could just be a career student and have done with it.
Tonight I plan to ring in the new year with a glass of wine and good book, a cat curled comfortably in my lap. I wash my hands of 2007, which will probably go down as one of the most horrible and -- ultimately -- transforming years of my life; and I welcome 2008 with open arms, in the hopes that it will be equally transforming...and not nearly as horrible, because...really, aside from 2004, which was the year I had my nervous breakdown, I can't think of a year worse than this one.
Yet...it all worked out in the end. Funny, that.
Last year, I think I'd resolved to lose weight and eat better (I think...I have the memory of a goldfish when it comes to resolutions, and this one has been a running resolution for the past five years or so). Much to my surprise, I actually followed through with this one -- I went from 144 to 118 and walk a mile or so every day, and I've cut fast food from my diet entirely. I feel surprisingly good about myself, which...has not been the case since, oh, high school. Yay. This year, my resolutions are a little more material in nature: I want to get my Oregon driver's license (technically, this is more of a "to do" list entry, but it can't hurt to add it to the resolutions list as well), I want to finish at least one of the three novel projects I'm currently poking at, and I want to edit said novel into something worthy of submission. I also want to start figuring grad school shit out as well, but that's a lot more nebulous as resolutions go, since that could mean anything from deciding on a major to saving the money to applying to a program. So...many...options, argh. I wish I could just be a career student and have done with it.
Tonight I plan to ring in the new year with a glass of wine and good book, a cat curled comfortably in my lap. I wash my hands of 2007, which will probably go down as one of the most horrible and -- ultimately -- transforming years of my life; and I welcome 2008 with open arms, in the hopes that it will be equally transforming...and not nearly as horrible, because...really, aside from 2004, which was the year I had my nervous breakdown, I can't think of a year worse than this one.
Yet...it all worked out in the end. Funny, that.