So this is the new year.
And I don’t feel any different.
The clanking of crystal
Explosions off in the distance (in the distance).

The New Year – Death Cab For Cutie

I’m not sure how 2008 went by so fast. It was the rush of a new job, getting engaged on Christmas Day, planning a wedding while finding a house, buying a home, and bringing home a puppy the day after we took possession and bringing his brother home the next week. It was starting a blog, friends coming out of the woodwork to say hello and wish us the best, starting an etsy shop, it was old friends drifting further away. It was getting married, it was a divorce, it was Edmonton, it was downsizing to one car, work on the house, and recuperating from the whole thing at the end of December.

I spent the New Year at my in-law’s place with the puppies running around after dinner. We watched a movie, came home, watched the east coast New Years celebration and saw the 10 pm fireworks light up the prairie sky. I’m not big on New Years so I didn’t expect to feel anything in relation to it, but as midnight crept closer I started feeling a little heart sick.

After fuss of the wedding, a number of friends have started to fade away again – just as fast as they were fading this time last year, and the year before that. I try not to mind, and to slow it down, but it seems like everyone is preparing to move away some time in the next two years and is slowly disengaging in the mean time.  It’s hard to be the person who is staying, but I’m thankful that at least one of my close friends is staying in The Prairies and involved.

While I’ve never been big on resolutions, I’ve been getting really down on myself about the above so I figure a resolution or two might help me figure out the next few months of winter.

Resolutions for 2009

1. Apply for new jobs.
2. Don’t be agitated by current job, try to enjoy it as much as possible. Stop fixating on all of the overtime and late nights when I can help it.
3. Attend a workshop! Photography, social marketing, new media – just get more engaged in one of my interests.
4. Make curtains for the house that you have been procrastinating for a number of months.
5. Cook more meat based meals for my omnivore husband so he doesn’t waste away!
6. Stay on the healthy eating/weight loss band wagon and figure out a target weight to work towards.
7. Stop letting the turkeys get me down. People come and go, they have other things going on in their lives, it’s not all about me.
8. Really enjoy what Mister and I have & have been working so hard for.
9. Watch more old movies.
10. Take a honeymoon!

Anything topping your list for 2009?