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anotheranonHappy 2007, y'all!
D. and I played the stereotype of "little old couple" to the hilt last night - despite a couple of invites to parties and one invite of our own that wasn't taken up, I was still feeling kind of antisocial and D. expressed no enthusiasm for going out. So, we read most of the evening but stayed up until midnight. Kinda worked out - it started raining in the afternoon (each with a cat in attendance) and playing with late night wet roads + amateur drunks wouldn't have been that appealing, I suspect :P
I like the new year. It's a nice sense of restarting and getting on with things after the strange lull between Christmas and New Year's Eve, which is sort of relaxing yet sort of not because of the "waiting for Jan. 1" vibe I seem to pick up every year.
My resolution this year is to take better care of myself. I'm coming to the realization that I spend a lot of brain cycles worrying about things that I can't affect and/or aren't my business. I also need to stop filtering my every priority through what other people need/want from me (or what they might need or want from me - I'm not psychic so I need to stop the paranoid game of second- and third-guessing and act with the assumption that people will speak up if they need to). If I can manage to keep my stress hamster off it's wheel, maybe I'll start figuring out what I want, need, and prioritize.
Obviously, I'm going to still be considerate of others, but I'm sure I'll mis-step with this grand scheme of figuring out what's my business and what isn't - if I am a jerk please call me on it, but bear with me.
D. and I played the stereotype of "little old couple" to the hilt last night - despite a couple of invites to parties and one invite of our own that wasn't taken up, I was still feeling kind of antisocial and D. expressed no enthusiasm for going out. So, we read most of the evening but stayed up until midnight. Kinda worked out - it started raining in the afternoon (each with a cat in attendance) and playing with late night wet roads + amateur drunks wouldn't have been that appealing, I suspect :P
I like the new year. It's a nice sense of restarting and getting on with things after the strange lull between Christmas and New Year's Eve, which is sort of relaxing yet sort of not because of the "waiting for Jan. 1" vibe I seem to pick up every year.
My resolution this year is to take better care of myself. I'm coming to the realization that I spend a lot of brain cycles worrying about things that I can't affect and/or aren't my business. I also need to stop filtering my every priority through what other people need/want from me (or what they might need or want from me - I'm not psychic so I need to stop the paranoid game of second- and third-guessing and act with the assumption that people will speak up if they need to). If I can manage to keep my stress hamster off it's wheel, maybe I'll start figuring out what I want, need, and prioritize.
Obviously, I'm going to still be considerate of others, but I'm sure I'll mis-step with this grand scheme of figuring out what's my business and what isn't - if I am a jerk please call me on it, but bear with me.
