Twenty Eleven
I am not going to make any resolutions for the New Year. I didn't make any last year, either. And 2010 has been a great year. A hard, beautiful, frustrating, wonderful, exciting, exhausting year. So I'm just going to tell you my hopes for 2011 and I'm going to tell you a little early, while I'm thinking of them.
I hope to get my financial ducks in a row. I've begun using Mint.com again, which is a rather depressing exercise. I'm surprised they don't send me e-mails with subject lines like "How about you actually make some money?" and "Are you kidding me with this?" the way they send me e-mails to remind me that my credit card bill is due and maybe I should check my credit score. I hope that at some point in 2011 I stop dreading those Mint.com e-mails so much.
Once I have those ducks lined up, or at least have some ducks that are generally moving toward a line-like position, I'd like to take a trip. A real, get-out-dodge and be-somewhere-new kind of trip, not a visiting-people-I-love trip. Because while I love those trips, and of course will take a trip of that variety in the next year, it's just not the same. Preferably I'd like to get out of the country. If there is anything me circa 2000 is disappointed about in me circa 2010, it is the lack of travels.
I'd like a puppy! Mostly I am writing that one because it'll make Jeff sigh in a cute, exasperated sort of way when he reads it. But also because: PUPPY!
I would like enjoyable, challenging employment. That pays me in neatly lined up ducks. So that I can enjoy life, Mint.com and also splurge on airplane rides and doggy chew toys. (Are you sensing a theme?)
In the year 2011, I would really like to stop reading articles like this one. I would really like Obama to stop trying to compromise with Republicans who obviously won't return the favor. I would really like Obama to stand up for the quickly-disappearing middle-class and the poor, in unequivocal terms. Clearly, I'm anxious about money. Also, politics.
I hope that all the best things of 2010 stretch easily into 2011. I hope all my loved ones stay in good health. I hope I read a tower of good books and spend Sunday mornings drinking coffee in my pajamas. I hope I continue learning how to cook new things and taking photographs and discovering new music. I hope I don't lose touch with my far-away friends. I hope for silly things, like socks that don't get holes, and I hope for bigger private things that I'm not going to reveal to the internet.
And though I have a lot of hopes and I said I don't have any resolutions, I'll admit I have been thinking about a lot of writing related goals. But that'll be another post. For now, maybe tell me what you're hoping for in the New Year?
Friday, December 3, 2010 at 8:47AM | margosita | 4 Comments | Share Article tagged New Years, hopes in This Is Personal
Reader Comments (4)
I'm not big on making resolutions, either. I haven't taken the time yet to think about what I really hope for or plan to work for next year, but probably just more of the same -- work hard at my writing, produce some new stuff I like, keep plugging away at the novel. Oh, and I guess since my collection comes out next year (bizarre!) I hope I can navigate the publication process and first book thing smoothly. If all else fails, Sunday mornings/pajamas/coffee/reading sounds perfect.
You totally need the puppy, though!
Three things:
Mint.com really is depressing!
Please adopt a puppy from a shelter. You'll save a life and feel SO good.
Want to go to Paris in the spring?
I like your non-resolutions, Laura. I'm so excited about your collection! Both to read it, and to hear all about the process. Exciting!
Amber, I would love to get a puppy from a shelter! Realistically that couldn't happen until after this summer, as we aren't in a place to have a dog at the moment. But it could happen in the year!! :)
Also, Paris in the spring? YES PLEASE!!
You should absolutely get a puppy! They're wonderful :)