I’ve never been the one to make new years resolutions, but this year, I thought I really needed to make some changes to my lifestyle and get out of the depressing cycle Waterloo has trapped me in. Here’s a quick summary of my major goals for the year:
1. Limit my expenditures
Rationale: Many of you who know me also know of my friend, conspicuous consumption. I like buying things. I also like having the best of things. My visa bills have been flying in the $1000 – $1500 range for the past half a year and my savings were going down.
Progress: After about five weeks, I’ve managed to recoup my savings to what they were about half a year ago. This meant making a bunch of sacrifices, and living “less baller”… as well as leveraging many options of obtaining goods and services which I’ll write about some other time… hopefully.
2. Start blogging
Rationale: I say “start blogging” because I don’t think my previous attempts were actual blogs by any means of measure. I am so ashamed of these attempts, that not only have I taken them down, I’ve also deleted them, and switched blogging services to ensure I sever all ties with the past
Progress: Today is post one…
3. Read
Rationale: I haven’t read a book since junior high school that wasn’t required reading. There isn’t really a good rationale for this… I just really miss reading a book.
Progress: Two books: The Watchmen, and The Alchemist…. Both are a bit short… but that’s still more than I’ve read in the past ten years!
4. Sync my circadian rhythms to EST
Rationale: I was running on PST most of 2008. That worked well when I was in Vancouver, but for the other eight months I was in Waterloo, sleeping at 4 did NOT work well. I was always tired during the day, and my school work suffered in relation.
Progress: Sleeping between 12 – 2, waking up between 8:30 – 10:30. Usually getting 7 hours of sleep =)
5. Get my driver’s license
Rationale: It’s about time… Also, my G1 expires in a 1.5 years, and I don’t want to go through the whole procedure of getting that again.
Progress: Playing GRID on PS3… Well, at least it’s pretty realistic.
It’s been a decent start… in most areas.
It was pretty damn good… But being the lazy people we were, we spent the rest of the night watching TV.
Instead, he became part of the bread.
Next we decided to make apple crumble… which also turned out damn delicious.
Teddy approves.
