Thoughts at the Closing of the Year
Dec. 10th, 2010 08:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsCan we move Christmas to January 25? That would work better for my schedule.
As usual, despite my best plans, Christmas is sneaking up on me too fast and New Year is staring me down with a disapproving expression. I started this year with only two resolutions.
I have, by any measurement, failed egregiously at both of them. Worse, clutter and disorganization have gotten so bad that there's a stack of stuff in my bedroom that's so old that my garb from last February's Team Wench Privateer Feast is at the bottom of it.
What's keeping me from being too horribly upset about those, though, is the knowledge that I have done a lot of good stuff this year. (One of the best being keeping a list of What I Accomplished That's Good, so that when I verge on "I suck" moments, I can look at the list and remind myself that no, maybe I don't.) House renovations have moved forward significantly; some of the things may not have been finished, but I've at least figured out how they *can't* be done and what I'll try next. Some of the systems I've set up worked. I managed to survive an entire year without conventions without feeling deprived.
I don't know if I'm going to do "resolutions" per se as come up with a list of goals to try to accomplish - goals a little more definite than "get house renovated." And January will see the return of the Sunday 7 in some form, because once again I've been reminded that if I don't publicly post what I'm doing... eventually I'm going to stop doing it.
tl;dr: Somehow I've managed this year to spend most of my time doing neither what I want to do or what I need to get done. In a few weeks, I start over.
As usual, despite my best plans, Christmas is sneaking up on me too fast and New Year is staring me down with a disapproving expression. I started this year with only two resolutions.
I have, by any measurement, failed egregiously at both of them. Worse, clutter and disorganization have gotten so bad that there's a stack of stuff in my bedroom that's so old that my garb from last February's Team Wench Privateer Feast is at the bottom of it.
What's keeping me from being too horribly upset about those, though, is the knowledge that I have done a lot of good stuff this year. (One of the best being keeping a list of What I Accomplished That's Good, so that when I verge on "I suck" moments, I can look at the list and remind myself that no, maybe I don't.) House renovations have moved forward significantly; some of the things may not have been finished, but I've at least figured out how they *can't* be done and what I'll try next. Some of the systems I've set up worked. I managed to survive an entire year without conventions without feeling deprived.
I don't know if I'm going to do "resolutions" per se as come up with a list of goals to try to accomplish - goals a little more definite than "get house renovated." And January will see the return of the Sunday 7 in some form, because once again I've been reminded that if I don't publicly post what I'm doing... eventually I'm going to stop doing it.
tl;dr: Somehow I've managed this year to spend most of my time doing neither what I want to do or what I need to get done. In a few weeks, I start over.
