Posts from — January 2010

Rosings December 30, 2009.

Ah, 2010, how happy I am to see you, may we be kind to one another.

I’m a fan of resolutions, I find them much easier to achieve if I start them on a particularly significant date and after several years of feeling unsure about where I was and where I wanted to be, I feel like today is the perfect time, with an almost clear slate, to try and nut out exactly where I’d like to be this time next year.

Work

I have some new roles in 2010 and after spending the last month or so of 2009 in a muddle, I want to refocus and make sure every day I’m prepared for all I need to do and be more productive.

In the best way possible, I want to work to exist only in work hours, I don’t want to think about things I didn’t finish, or that I have coming up.

Uni

I need to be on top of all deadlines, have a complete understanding of the structure of the course and have a space cleared at home that can be dedicated to study.

I also want to be incredibly efficient with my time as I’ll be juggling full-time work and part-time uni.

I never want to hand in anything I feel half-hearted about. 

Life

This is the big one. I need to:

* Get my sleep issues under control. The hours between 10:30pm and 1:00am are boring anyway, I may as well be asleep. 2010: The Year of Melatonin.

* Plan my time better so that the easy option is never to stay at home because I’m too tired, or frazzled, or just completely too disorganised to get out of the house. I have lost my partner-in-crime for sloth-like behaviour, it remains to be seen who was the dominant sloth. I hope it wasn’t me.

* Set dates to meet up with people. Whether it’s watching The West Wingwith Alice, or taking photos with Pete or Meesh, I need to get past ‘Wow, that’s a great idea!’ and realise actually doing some of these said plans is better than just the thought of doing them. I am determined to not become the crazy cat woman one of my friends so kindly predicted, at age 15, that I would become.

* Exercise and eating. They’ve been my resolutions for the past two years and I’ve come no closer to achieving either of them, but this year I have a reason, personal, that I think makes the achievement of both much more possible. I’m not going to bore the interwebs with the details. If there are goals met, I imagine I’ll gloat about it. Naked. Then roll around in a huge pile of pizza that I did not eat. Gross. There’s a thought though, buying pizza whenever you want it, then storing it somewhere and taking a photo of it at the end of the year, a huge pile or rotting, stinking pizza badness. This is not a resolution.

* Understand my camera. Use it more.

* Get my finances under control. I’m not terrible, but I can be much better. Considering that being broke is a great fear of mine and almost a constant stress, it’s time that I made sure I’m in a place with it’s not even logical to worry about it.

* Learn to cook…real food…without the microwave…or plastic packaging.

How about you, interwebs? I like hearing other people’s ideas for the future.