Hey, look, an update!

[mousme]

Okay, not really. I'm sneaking onto my parents' computer in order to do some serious catch-up on LJ, which I think I've mostly covered. If anything important has happened that you think I should read, please point me in that direction. I dislike this keyboard considerably, so there will be little rambling on this 3rd of January.

In theory, I get my computer back on Thursday. Then I will probably have to reset all my settings and shit like that, so don't expect me to be online regularly in the evenings until Saturday or so. So much for that.

I ended 2005 by getting my car vandalized. Again. I'm starting to rival abiku in the number of times assholes have beaten chunks out of my car. At least no one has stolen the radio out of my car. But it's seriously starting to piss me off.

I have a number of things I want to get done before Thursday, most of them writing-related. In fact, I think they may well be all writing-related. We shall see if I can manage that.

If I ever get that post written about what I want to do with myself this year, I shall post it up. The summary of what's going on in my head is as follows:

Apart from some very specific Good Moments, 2005 largely was unsatisfying for me. I won't say it sucked, since it was far better than, say, 2000 through 2003. However, in most areas of my life I either stagnated or moved back a few steps. The two major "ups" in my life were Random Colour and moving out of my old appartment. While both of these are good things, the rest just wasn't good or was offset by suckage happening at the same time. NaNoWriMo was good, but I was stressed and unhappy for other reasons, the computer went on the fritz, I had a car accident, and my godmother passed away.

This year is in my mind being tentatively named the "Year of the Deadline." I'm going to work with a number of admittedly artificial deadlines in my head to give myself some sort of motivation to change what I don't like about what's going on.

I have come to the conclusion that, in spite of the positive changes I've made, I still don't like the kind of life I'm living. This is mostly my own damned fault. So I'm giving myself one year to turn all that around. There will be smaller deadlines for specific things over the course of the year, but the Big Deadline will be December 31st, 2006. I shall take stock periodically (probably once a month) to make sure that I'm still moving to where I want to go. The ultimate destination may change as the year goes by, but I at least want to start off on a more positive note than that on which I ended the previous year.

That's it in a nutshell. Off to dinner.

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Good luck with the changes you want to make in 2006! :)