Well, on Saturday, Happy Birthday to me. Yay!
Thus begins the yearly goal setting and self reflection. As I explained last year, I like to make resolutions on my birthday, instead of at New Years. I normally don’t feel quite up to self improvement at that time of the year, you know?
So! Here were my goals on my last birthday:
-Get a new job that hopefully pays me for my efforts. I am through slaving away, underpaid, in the non-profit sector. Can I please sell out? Please?
Sell out accomplished! Woo Hoo!
-Keep the workout wagon in sight but love yourself all the same. I work hard to stay fit and healthy, but for the first time, in the last year, I have noticed that things are shifting a bit, if you know what I mean. Finding new and different homes, really.
I rule on this one, too! I defied the shifting and settling and found Bikram Yoga. It has changed my life in so many ways and deserves it’s own post. Seriously, though, I WANT to do it, I’m happy with how I look, it’s calmed my racing thoughts, helped me to sleep better, I could go on and on.
-Take a big trip. (Thailand Dec-Jan 07?)
Um…. not so much.
-Remember the Liverpool Lessons and choose to be happy
30 was an excellent year. I was definitely happy, and constantly thankful for it.
-Take the Pill every day. It is not quite time yet.
Word. An accomplishment all the same!
-Practice Spanish and the Guitar. This is on every goal list I’ve made for the past 5 years and I’ve done a piss poor job. Hence, I am losing my formally fluent Spanish with each passing day, and I can only play 2 songs on my beautiful guitar, which sits lonely in the corner, the collected dust mocking me.
Well…yeah. Let’s move on.
So! This year…
1. Keep my job. Learn more stuff. Feel like a badass geek by this time next year.
2. Continue doing yoga 3-4 times a week, and keep reaping the rewards.
3. Make Paris Happen. (SB and I are trying to cook up a way to work remotely for a month…)
4. Maybe…um…STOP taking the pill everyday at some point in the next year? (after achieving a certian level of geek badassery)
5. Schmractice Shpanish and the stinking guitar. *sigh*
I LOVE this idea of making resolutions on your birthday! New Years resolutions are always lame and you break them right away, hence feeling like shit. I also love that you write them down and then review them around birthday time the next year. Snaps for following through on almost all of them, too. Doesn’t it feel damn good to be doing well?
BP and I are GOING to Paris in November, so if you and SB can arrange to work remotely THAT month, well, it would be the coolest.
HAPPY 31ST BIRTHDAY! We wish we could be there to celebrate with you.
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday, dear friend! Kudos to you on your resolutions and you’ve inspired me to reconnect to my yearly goals.
Jesse
As you embark on 32, may your resolutions come easy and your dreams surprise you. Cheers for keeping the blogging lifestyle going as well. You’re a huge inspiration for me.
See about coming back to the states from Paris through Hong Kong and we’ll have a room ready. Peace, dear friend.
Jill: We are thinking October, but who knows?
Sarah: Thanks, friend!
Jesse: Aww… Thank you.
Erik: …..RECORD SCREECH
THIRTY TWO?!? WTF are you talking about? You are forgetting the order, my friend. Jesse is 32. I am a wee spring 31.
what do you mean – maybe stop taking the pill!!!
LEAH!!!!! HI!
(Hey everyone! It’s a dear Liverpool friend!)
Yes, my sweet, we are most serious this time. It was going to be ‘game on’ after this bachelorette (Hen!) party I just went to, but now we are thinking fall. You? Number two?
Happy Birthday to you! Hope it was a good one.
My, you have lots of goals. Goals are good.
I hear you on the yoga. And wow, no more pill. Cool!
OG: Thanks! You really think so? I though perhaps my goals this year will a tad coast-y.
We are VERY excited about beginning the baby adventure. We’re doing our best to live it up every minute until then, though!
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