Thoughts upon approaching a New Year
Dec. 31st, 2006 01:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lissa_quonWell I'm bored, insomnia prevails and my copy of Baldur's Gate 2 seems to have developed another bug so I guess it's time to start contemplating this year.
2006 had brought alot of changes to this world, at least for me. I don't feel like waxing philosophically about the world at large since I feel disconnected from the world at large most of the time. So I'm just focusing on my own events, most of them have actually been good ones for the most part.
While 2005 brought me into my experiment with selling artwork 2006 actually brought me my first succesful convention. I am uncertain what I would have done if I had failed so I'm just thanking God I didn't.
This year also marked my first excursion out of the house, first I lived with my sister and later moved into the OU student apartments. While neither were/are permanant residences it's still quite a leap for one whose lived in the same house/same town for as long as memory serves.
Tying in with the first time out of the nest: this also marks the first year I've had to feed/dress/shop for myself. I seem to have not made a mess out of it so far, I seemed to have lost weight, not starve/freeze or get arrested by the fashion police or go broke so I think I'm suceeding.
2006 has also seen me enter my first year at big-people-school, before this I had been in community college twiddling my thumbs. Now I sit in another state covered in paint twiddling my thumbs and longing for an intelligent class mate. But still I have learned a few things in my never-ending-quest-to-make-money-with-art, which is something I guess. Hopefully 2007 will have some more intelligent conversation.
2006 has also seen me be employed for the longest stead yet! I've managed to hold down employment for half a year. While the first four months were are one place and the rest elsewhere it's still worthy of note that I have not been fired (I still work at the latest place) and I have not found myself wanting to kill myself over it.
2006 also marked my dad contacting my long lost grandfather, meeting him and visiting the rest of our thought dead relatives. So this was a bit of a large step in my family not floating around in the ether with no roots.
My mother seems to think me not very religious but I am indeed counting my blessings and thanking God for me not mucking my own life up. Now in a less philosopical/thankful note, lets see how I did on my New Year resolutions for 2006. For those playing at home they were:
Draw something everyday even if its a five minute sketch - I actually kept up with this one pretty well until Christmas vacation when I collapsed with a cold and slept for days on end. So GO TEAM
Floss often - Did this one pretty good, last dentist trip confirmed it when I had no cavities
Apply for College - check
Do Portfolio for College - check
Try to get out and do social things more often -erm...no idea how to rate this
Save at least half of whatever money I get - apparently past me never had to buy groceries
Start and stay with a comic - FAILED
Do some photo work again - FAILED
Get over him - CRASH AND BURN
I'm now going to asses the info and figure out what next year's resolutions should be.
2006 had brought alot of changes to this world, at least for me. I don't feel like waxing philosophically about the world at large since I feel disconnected from the world at large most of the time. So I'm just focusing on my own events, most of them have actually been good ones for the most part.
While 2005 brought me into my experiment with selling artwork 2006 actually brought me my first succesful convention. I am uncertain what I would have done if I had failed so I'm just thanking God I didn't.
This year also marked my first excursion out of the house, first I lived with my sister and later moved into the OU student apartments. While neither were/are permanant residences it's still quite a leap for one whose lived in the same house/same town for as long as memory serves.
Tying in with the first time out of the nest: this also marks the first year I've had to feed/dress/shop for myself. I seem to have not made a mess out of it so far, I seemed to have lost weight, not starve/freeze or get arrested by the fashion police or go broke so I think I'm suceeding.
2006 has also seen me enter my first year at big-people-school, before this I had been in community college twiddling my thumbs. Now I sit in another state covered in paint twiddling my thumbs and longing for an intelligent class mate. But still I have learned a few things in my never-ending-quest-to-make-money-with-art, which is something I guess. Hopefully 2007 will have some more intelligent conversation.
2006 has also seen me be employed for the longest stead yet! I've managed to hold down employment for half a year. While the first four months were are one place and the rest elsewhere it's still worthy of note that I have not been fired (I still work at the latest place) and I have not found myself wanting to kill myself over it.
2006 also marked my dad contacting my long lost grandfather, meeting him and visiting the rest of our thought dead relatives. So this was a bit of a large step in my family not floating around in the ether with no roots.
My mother seems to think me not very religious but I am indeed counting my blessings and thanking God for me not mucking my own life up. Now in a less philosopical/thankful note, lets see how I did on my New Year resolutions for 2006. For those playing at home they were:
Draw something everyday even if its a five minute sketch - I actually kept up with this one pretty well until Christmas vacation when I collapsed with a cold and slept for days on end. So GO TEAM
Floss often - Did this one pretty good, last dentist trip confirmed it when I had no cavities
Apply for College - check
Do Portfolio for College - check
Try to get out and do social things more often -erm...no idea how to rate this
Save at least half of whatever money I get - apparently past me never had to buy groceries
Start and stay with a comic - FAILED
Do some photo work again - FAILED
Get over him - CRASH AND BURN
I'm now going to asses the info and figure out what next year's resolutions should be.