New Years ResolutionsFucking rock! I don't care what you curmudgeons say. Most of my resolutions last year had to do with keeping safe. Throughout 2005, I did a pretty good job avoiding dangerous behaviors. Now that I'm not an immediate, everyday danger to myself, I can morph into a strong and happy human being. My resolutions this year will focus on ways I can enhance myself and my circumstance: - Finish writing the 1st draft of Happy Hour (A hold-over resolution from last year. I set aside the novel because it was driving me nuts, but am ready to pick it back up again). - Find a home. A warm and pretty haven I can decorate and inhabit the way I choose, where I feel welcome and comfortable. I haven't had that since I got evicted from my apartment, last February. - Find a job with a livable wage, in which I can help people somehow. Like tutoring or working for a non-profit. If I can't find a job like that, I'll volunteer. - Learn how to do something new. A new hobby or skill. Or maybe I'll re-take up my old hobbies: playing the violin and making jewelry. I also want to be a mime more often. Especially when it's completely unexpected. "Look over there. Across the street. Is that a mime... with NUNCHUCKS!!?!?" - Love someone who loves me back. Someone who is appropriate for me, meaning they are not old enough to have fathered me (I'm sorry gentlemen. I just don't remember 1989.) Someone who's not jealous or nervous or trying to run my life or obnoxious or not supportive of my writing. - Collaborate with others on creative projects: podcasting, starting a zine, perhaps playing in a band. - Continue to publish stories and reviews. Perform at readings and open mics. - Take showers!- Lose a little weight. I know, it's cliche. I'm not obese, but I'm sick of guys leaving me for skinny chicks. They always do, even if they gave me that bullshit, "I like more curves on a woman" speech. - Building upon that last resolution: don't compare myself to others. Instead, I'll compare myself to my past, to see how I've grown. - Don't get drunk and barf on people's bathroom floors (or cars or laps or shoes). Do not try to sleep on said bathroom floor after barfing there. College is over. - Quit making out with sleezebags at the Exit. See past entry: Clubtrash Letters.
- If it feels right, make amends with some people I've wronged in the past. Keep peace with my current friends.
- Have fun as often as possible! Maintain a playful perspective, manifest happy things. There's no good reason to be miserable.
So if you don't see me doing these things, dick slap me with a 4-foot dildo!
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