Just going through my Gmail account, which had (ahem) 850 unread messages --mind over a LONG TIME!!!--, and besides realizing that I don't really read many of my parent's emails, I started this account in 2005 and it's tracked FOUR relationships, in various stages--"Great meeting you" stage, "let's hang out" stage, "I like you" stage, all the way to the sometimes bitter end.
if I had the time, I'd read each email in succession, and I'm bound to start seeing patterns in my relationships. (I did this for my ex-Jessa, and I caught several "DUH" moments where I should've seen that she really wanted me to be there for something, and tried to subtly tell me, and i totally missed it).
..it's weird having a log of your life, and I found myself sentimental, not wanting to ditch certain emails from loved ones, "just in case" years from now i'd want to read them (it's morbid, but i even thought i'd read my parent's emails when they've passed).
Friday, February 12, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
2009 RESOLUTIONS: Review
Ok, I can't avoid this, so i'll face up to my fears and tighten my cheeks and see the results:
Here's what I posted last year:
RESOLUTIONS FOR 2009
1) I will make $80,000 in 2009. I will have fun doing it.
I haven't done my taxes, but not close. But I had fun working at Paulette's Macarons and the Gelato shop in SF and starting a new business in December in LA! 1/2 point for the fun factor.
2) I will find a great girlfriend, or many.
WIN! My Amanda is ze best. We met in February and are still together, a personal record btw. 1 point and a half out of 1!!
3) I will be ripped like Daniel Craig in Quantum of Solace. I will do it with a 99% vegetarian diet.
Heh. heh heh.AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! Ok, so I'm no ripped like, well, anyone, but i'm not an ounce fatter than one year ago, and a year of off/on running races, some rugby has made me fitter with better endurance. but the vegeterian diet?? What was I *thinking*?? 1/2 point.
4) I will buy a sailboat to take my girlfriend(s) on.
No, but, looke here, I work in the boating industry and can take people sailing. 1/2 point.
5) I will not share a bedroom with my brother again. I will have as many rooms as girlfriends.
WIN! Except in December I moved to LA where I am staying (as part payment for work done, mind you), at my parents and I have less than a room. (I told you I had to be honest). 1/2 points.
6) I will indulge in no less than trips to Brazil, Argentina, Greece and India. In case of civil wars, the country next to it will suffice.
Dream big, right? Well I worked all year long and didn't take one damn vacation. ahh, well. 0 Points.
7) I will take my One-A-Day vitamins, once a day.
I stopped taking my vitamins right around...August. 1/2 point for 1/2 the year?
8) I will score ten (10) “Tries” at rugby.
Not close, i hurt my head and neck at practice in February and didn't rejoin the team. However I am now a proud coach for a an Under-13 rugby team, and play touch rugby at the beach on Sundays. Much safer. No points, but not sorry either. I ran my first 1/2 marathon, for one thing. 1/2 point.
9) I will end the year being able to prove wrong the Obama nay-sayers.
??? Well I can safe that he has had a very very busy first year, that he has launched many an initiative, but I can't say that I feel more confident, or as confident, but maybe 1/2 as confident in our new President as I did then. However he's far and away far better than Bush. 1/2 point.
10) I will enjoy this year in peace and happiness, whether or not these resolutions come true.
I really did enjoy the year (Thank you San Francisco!!), even if it wasn't in total peace or happiness, but it was truly a better year than the last, just as each year has been since I started counting. 1 Point.
Ok, I'm giving myself a 6/10 on the resolutions. What can I make of this? I think that besides the rosy outlook I gave myself, i can do much, much better. My financial situation is pretty much the same as then, didn't get any better, not worse. I could be exercizing more often, I could DEFINITELY travel more, and my neck injuries are still being felt, so health wise I have improvements to go. I don't have my own apartment--that would be a major WIN for 2010. I have not finished my degree, a total utter fail and i should have put it on my resolutions.
So, I can
Here's what I posted last year:
RESOLUTIONS FOR 2009
1) I will make $80,000 in 2009. I will have fun doing it.
I haven't done my taxes, but not close. But I had fun working at Paulette's Macarons and the Gelato shop in SF and starting a new business in December in LA! 1/2 point for the fun factor.
2) I will find a great girlfriend, or many.
WIN! My Amanda is ze best. We met in February and are still together, a personal record btw. 1 point and a half out of 1!!
3) I will be ripped like Daniel Craig in Quantum of Solace. I will do it with a 99% vegetarian diet.
Heh. heh heh.AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! Ok, so I'm no ripped like, well, anyone, but i'm not an ounce fatter than one year ago, and a year of off/on running races, some rugby has made me fitter with better endurance. but the vegeterian diet?? What was I *thinking*?? 1/2 point.
4) I will buy a sailboat to take my girlfriend(s) on.
No, but, looke here, I work in the boating industry and can take people sailing. 1/2 point.
5) I will not share a bedroom with my brother again. I will have as many rooms as girlfriends.
WIN! Except in December I moved to LA where I am staying (as part payment for work done, mind you), at my parents and I have less than a room. (I told you I had to be honest). 1/2 points.
6) I will indulge in no less than trips to Brazil, Argentina, Greece and India. In case of civil wars, the country next to it will suffice.
Dream big, right? Well I worked all year long and didn't take one damn vacation. ahh, well. 0 Points.
7) I will take my One-A-Day vitamins, once a day.
I stopped taking my vitamins right around...August. 1/2 point for 1/2 the year?
8) I will score ten (10) “Tries” at rugby.
Not close, i hurt my head and neck at practice in February and didn't rejoin the team. However I am now a proud coach for a an Under-13 rugby team, and play touch rugby at the beach on Sundays. Much safer. No points, but not sorry either. I ran my first 1/2 marathon, for one thing. 1/2 point.
9) I will end the year being able to prove wrong the Obama nay-sayers.
??? Well I can safe that he has had a very very busy first year, that he has launched many an initiative, but I can't say that I feel more confident, or as confident, but maybe 1/2 as confident in our new President as I did then. However he's far and away far better than Bush. 1/2 point.
10) I will enjoy this year in peace and happiness, whether or not these resolutions come true.
I really did enjoy the year (Thank you San Francisco!!), even if it wasn't in total peace or happiness, but it was truly a better year than the last, just as each year has been since I started counting. 1 Point.
Ok, I'm giving myself a 6/10 on the resolutions. What can I make of this? I think that besides the rosy outlook I gave myself, i can do much, much better. My financial situation is pretty much the same as then, didn't get any better, not worse. I could be exercizing more often, I could DEFINITELY travel more, and my neck injuries are still being felt, so health wise I have improvements to go. I don't have my own apartment--that would be a major WIN for 2010. I have not finished my degree, a total utter fail and i should have put it on my resolutions.
So, I can
Wow...my last update was....one year ago?
OK i'm back, to share my thoughts!
First thing I want to say is Thank You for the privilege of working in the boating industry, and I mean it. It's more fun than flooring or floor heating or audiobooks (but not, in the short-term, as much fun as macarons or gelato!).
I'm talking about work...why? because it's so much of my life right now, and It's where I want to grow. I love learning from my jobs, and this is yet another sweet opportunity.
....y'know, my friends Fabrice and Linda asked me the other day if I had decided what I would be doing (as a career, was the implication), and I really was at first set back by the question, not because I have never thought about a "career", but because they obviously expect me to have an answer by now. They are both about three years older than I, but pretty much for some years have known they'd be scientists. Me? The best answer I came up with was that I wanted to be an "entrepreneur", which is incredibly vague.
My answer was basically, "THIS", to work in the sailboat industry, sell boats, manage a yacht brokerage, take sailboat delivery trips and become captain and broker in the process, have my own business and make lots of mulah.
So, i'm writing this down, so I can laugh when I look at this again in five years. laugh because I was right, or because I can't predict the future.
[My basic philosophy regarding Career Things is that opportunities present themselves just as others drop, and you take them. Thus i've had 6-7 jobs in ten years, pretty much in different fields (see first paragraph)].
First thing I want to say is Thank You for the privilege of working in the boating industry, and I mean it. It's more fun than flooring or floor heating or audiobooks (but not, in the short-term, as much fun as macarons or gelato!).
I'm talking about work...why? because it's so much of my life right now, and It's where I want to grow. I love learning from my jobs, and this is yet another sweet opportunity.
....y'know, my friends Fabrice and Linda asked me the other day if I had decided what I would be doing (as a career, was the implication), and I really was at first set back by the question, not because I have never thought about a "career", but because they obviously expect me to have an answer by now. They are both about three years older than I, but pretty much for some years have known they'd be scientists. Me? The best answer I came up with was that I wanted to be an "entrepreneur", which is incredibly vague.
My answer was basically, "THIS", to work in the sailboat industry, sell boats, manage a yacht brokerage, take sailboat delivery trips and become captain and broker in the process, have my own business and make lots of mulah.
So, i'm writing this down, so I can laugh when I look at this again in five years. laugh because I was right, or because I can't predict the future.
[My basic philosophy regarding Career Things is that opportunities present themselves just as others drop, and you take them. Thus i've had 6-7 jobs in ten years, pretty much in different fields (see first paragraph)].
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