the sleeper continues to waken

Christmas and/or [insert winter holiday of choice] is ideally about family and friends (and cookies). Coming at the end of the calendar year as it does, it's alsoa good time to review the year that's almost past and make plans for the one to come.

I did make some resolutions last year that I'll revisit:

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Paradoxically, I think my best moments this year were realizing what I need to work on for 2010:

• Make more time for my friends. I have such a busy schedule of stuff that I forget there are other people out there.
  
  
• Save.
  
  
• More practice with long term planning. I can do it, I just have to make it a habit.
  
  
• Face some of my phobias. I'm not up to spiders yet, but perhaps I'll summon the nerve to speak in public, or get quality photos of myself in costume made.
  
  
• Get organized - mentally and environmentally.
  
  
• Be less paranoid and more generous, or at least start letting go of my knee-jerk worrying.
  
  
• Grok the difference between dreams, plans, and goals, and make some of the latter that I can hit with a hammer.