| Dec. 31st, 2011 @ 10:38 am 2012 |
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i'm not even sure i wrote my annual list last new year's eve, but i think that if i did, it was condensed into The Big Three. my only rule concerning those was that i wanted to work on 2 of the 3 every single day. i managed to do that most of the 2011 year, but i wasn't 100% successful all the way through the year. however, it was good mental exercise for the upcoming year and i did get quite a lot accomplished with that self-imposed rule.
the list of 2012 is...well, i've been adding to a list on the memo pad in my phone (of course, because that's where no less than 30 memos are living, a big chuck of them "lists" of some sort). i don't plan to accomplish every single thing on the list, which is why these are NOT resolutions, so much as a list of things i plan to explore this year--resources permitting.
without further ado, here it is, The Explorer's List for 2012:
--read all of Hemingway's works (again) because it's been too long!
--continue building on my foreign film viewing repertoire, concentration once again on the french films. i've done a Fellini Fest, a Bergman Review, several German flicks, a whole host of Indian films and not a few great movies from Spain. oddball films from the Scandinavian countries have slipped in, too. i enjoyed them all--well, most of them--but when i comes to listening to a foreign languages while viewing a movie, i have to say i do have a soft spot for le francais. probably because i manage to understand it quite a lot more than any of the other languages.
--up my daily run to a minimum of 7 miles. i'd like to think that someday i'll 10 miles a day, but i'm not ready to put that on my list just yet.
--revisit, once again, an old new year's resolution concerning my vintage blues/jazz library. i didn't exactly abandon that resolution, but 2005 (i think) was a very....busy year for me. a lot of things changed smack dab in the middle, last quarter of the year and it was, in some ways, as tough as 2011 was. so. back to it!
--track down, if possible, my old recipes for perfumes and body oils. i have no essential oils with me here, but i can certainly find them here or order them. i liked making my own scents--and my skin liked it better, too. i wonder if dustin will be allergic to the essential oil compounds...?
--2nd hand guitar! i asked collin yesterday whatever happened to his guitar--the one i learned how to restring and tune on afternoon five years ago. he has no idea where it went or the last time he even saw it. *sigh* however, knowing that i can indeed restring a guitar and tune it makes me think i'll be fine with a 2nd hand guitar and so i'll be keeping an eye out for one. of my talents, music was one of the first to manifest--and i'm going to resuscitate that talent!
--must renew passport! i'm still considering next christmas out of the country, but there's no way i could bear to disappoint my kidlet by taking off when we have this new tradition at christmas time of him being with me. but that doesn't mean i'm not planning on leaving the country at some point, so yeah--renew the passport i must!
--i've been looking, for many years now, at taking judo lessons. yeah, i also toyed with boxing, but i want some martial arts first.
--rollerskating! now, this one was on my list last year--not on The Big Three, but another list. in fact, it's in my illuminations sketchbook from february or march. i didn't get to it this year. hello, chemo! hello, 3rd fucking enrollment in college! hello, other assorted and sundry issues! but with the road blocks all cleared, i think i will indeed have time to revisit this item.
--prepare and cook and serve one entirely new dinner menu once a week. because i've done very very little in the way of cooking or baking since i got here and that's crap. CRAP! i LOVE to cook and bake, so...yeah! and observe: not just an entree, but a full MEAL. i'm excited!
--finish editing TDOM (of course)
--start MBK, or, as it should be noted somewhere, the working title for the next novel: My Brother's Keeper. i'm not sold at all on that title, but it'll do for now.
--complete "forever--and a blue day" so i can start work on some other paintings, damn it! i'm ITCHING to get back to the black canvas i prepped a few months ago! and nevermind the other canvases waiting on the shelves in my mind's eye!
--now, this next one...it's rather "aggressive," in the words of the craig machine when we were on the phone the other day. but he likes aggressive goals, and so do i. i'm planning on knocking out no less than 30 credits PER TERM in 2012. i'd aim for 40, but i don't want to set myself up for failure. 30 will be tough enough, but i'm determined. and, like i said, i've cleared the road. as james taylor would say: "i'm a steamroller, baby--i'm bound to roll all over you" sing it, sweet baby james!
--a...'different' kind of journal for 2012. i'm to take a photo for every journal entry--which is NOT to say i'm doing another daily photo project--though i'm still waffling on whether to start another one on jan 1 and take it through may 31--at which point, i'll join the two partial projects together and have a whole year. eh. we'll see. but back to the journal idea: i think i'd like some color in my new journal--the journal that is and will continue to be friendless and very much anonymous. my days of writing and sharing the most banal as well as the most personal journal entries are gone, as of midnight tonight. i'm setting myself free of the old entanglements, the old habits, the old thought patterns.
--continue to be a non-smoker! i'm so proud of myself AND amazed at how EASY this quit has been, compared to the others of the past few years. this has not been the torturous endeavor of past attempts! no, this has been, more or less, a piece of cake this time. or...maybe i was just *that* ready to quit? and have no more crazy stresses to deal with? perhaps. perhaps...
........and, these are the things i want to make time for and am willing to write about right now. but this is not a complete list. no, there are other things, secret things. things that i think would crack my world open and forever change a great many things for me. but...i'm not ready to share those yet. not for fear of jinxing anything, or risking embarrassment or even disappointment. i just...well, i just don't want to share. i'm becoming selfish, i guess. and the anonymous persons who read this journal aren't entitled. as a member of paid accounts, i can see the stats for the traffic for this journal. so i know i have readers, but, dear strangers, this is our final show.
happy new year, everyone. |
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