29 Dec 10 New Year Yard
I don’t much care for New Year Resolutions. It’s just an arbitrary date, and often resolutions are made after a booze-filled New Year’s Eve party; or it’s almost the reverse, one has waited until New Year’s Eve to start something that could well have been commenced weeks or months before.
Still, this coming year for me is certainly a time to be looking forward, and a break with the immediate past. 2010, was, in many ways, my ‘annis horriblis’ and I have no wish to repeat it in 2011.
A new job is on the immediate horizon, and of course being in a new location helps that break with 2010.
One thing I am going to concentrate on is trying to lead a more healthy lifestyle. Although my work has largely been sedentary, and although I’m not a couch potato with remote in hand, I do tend to spend too much time in front of the computer, sitting on my butt.
One thing I am going to do, is dig up this back yard, and start growing something to eat in it. I’m intending to post some photographs here at The Eye, as I go along, so you can see what progress I’m making.
This also means there will be a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables, so I’ll have no excuse at not eating more of them!
Tags: back yard, booze, couch potato, excuse, fresh fruit and vegetables, healthy lifestyle, horizon, new job, new location, new year, new year resolutions
04 Dec 10 The First Week
The first week has certainly gone quickly.
When I first got back, I wasn’t at all sure if it was what I should have done. Then again the jet lag drags one down, and everything was strangely familiar, yet strange too. I felt like an alien in my country.
The money was funny, yet I could pay with loose change without thinking about it.
I rediscovered foods that I’d dreamt about when Stateside, and some that I’d forgotten about too.
After a week, I’m beginning to overcome some of the stumbling blocks. Like the US, the UK has gone ID mad. Proving who you are, is sometimes proving difficult, when you’ve been ‘off the radar’ here for almost seven years. Again it’s like you’re an alien in your own country.
Still these things will work out, and it will all settle down. Officialdom hasn’t caught up with worldwide travel and movements though. Each country is still insulated, in that your life in a previous country doesn’t exist.
Although I’ve come back to cold weather and a little snow, all in all I’m glad to be back and looking forward to the challenges of the Old Country, and a New Year.
Tags: alien, challenges, cold weather, jet lag, loose change, money, new year, radar, seven years, worldwide travel
01 Jan 09 2009
I usually forget about the end of January. That’s when I stop making a deliberate effort to remember that it’s a new year, and that’s when I make the mistake and put the previous year on stuff.
Anyway, I hope you had a pleasant evening seeing in the New Year in, or, if you don’t celebrate, a pleasant evening anyway.
If you did celebrate, I hope you’re not too hung over.
If you had a good year in 2008, may 2009 be even better, and if 2008 was a year you’d rather forget, well forget it! It’s 2009 now.
I know it’s only an arbitary date, but it’s still a good time to look forward, and set a few new goals for a new year.
Talking of goals, set them high for sure, but don’t set them too high that they are unattainable. If you really don’t think you make a million this year, go for $100K, or even $10K.
You’ll feel better than you made that lesser goal, and it’ll give you a starting place, and even more inspiration for 2010. Don’t undersell yourself of course, and whatever you do, when you reach that goal, if you can carry on past it, then be sure you do!
Tags: deliberate effort, good year, happy new year, mistake, new year, previous year
