Happy New Year
Monday, 31 December 2018 20:53![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zimenaSo, first of all: Happy New Year, dear friends! Thanks for being with me and caring about me this year. I hope you get to celebrate the start of the new year in the way that is best for you, and I hope 2019 will bring you all lots of happiness, joy, and success.
I'm not really a fan of this day, as it tends to make me thoughtful and somewhat sad. That, coupled with my dislike of people shooting fireworks to the sky all evening and night, usually makes me want to skip straight from December 30 to January 1. But of course that didn't work this year either. So, because I want to end the old year AND start the new one on a positive note instead of a sad one, I have some goals for the new year. (Yes, I call them goals - if I called them resolutions, I would break them within three hours anyway. I might anyway, you say? Yes, maybe, but they're still goals).
... Things I want to do (more of)
* Read regularly (books, ebooks, manga).
* Knitting (I found an old learning project I started a few years ago. I still want to learn to do this properly.)
* Eat healthy (or at least eat less junk food and/or chocolate).
* Do daily stretches.
* Get out daily (if nothing else, just go to the nearest corner.)
Those are the important and somewhat doable ones. There are also some other things I'd ideally like to do more of, like driving practice and language studies and writing, but I'm not sure I feel ready to commit to doing them regularly, for different reasons in each case. Writing, for me, depends heavily on inspiration, and also on making myself sit down to work with that inspiration. Language studies - especially getting back into practicing and studying Czech - are a problem because I'm lazy. If I study, I enjoy it, but there are countless other things I also enjoy and tend to choose instead of studying. Finally, you all know my feelings about driving practice. I wish I could drive well enough to feel safe and comfortable doing it, but I also wish I could get there without putting myself through the endless torture of doing it WITHOUT feeling good enough at it. I know, I know, that's an impossibility.
So, not putting these last three in the goals list, even though I want to do them, too.
In any case, have a safe end of 2018 and a happy, smiley hello to 2019 when it's time to welcome the new year in your part of the world.
See you next year! 🎆
I'm not really a fan of this day, as it tends to make me thoughtful and somewhat sad. That, coupled with my dislike of people shooting fireworks to the sky all evening and night, usually makes me want to skip straight from December 30 to January 1. But of course that didn't work this year either. So, because I want to end the old year AND start the new one on a positive note instead of a sad one, I have some goals for the new year. (Yes, I call them goals - if I called them resolutions, I would break them within three hours anyway. I might anyway, you say? Yes, maybe, but they're still goals).
... Things I want to do (more of)
* Read regularly (books, ebooks, manga).
* Knitting (I found an old learning project I started a few years ago. I still want to learn to do this properly.)
* Eat healthy (or at least eat less junk food and/or chocolate).
* Do daily stretches.
* Get out daily (if nothing else, just go to the nearest corner.)
Those are the important and somewhat doable ones. There are also some other things I'd ideally like to do more of, like driving practice and language studies and writing, but I'm not sure I feel ready to commit to doing them regularly, for different reasons in each case. Writing, for me, depends heavily on inspiration, and also on making myself sit down to work with that inspiration. Language studies - especially getting back into practicing and studying Czech - are a problem because I'm lazy. If I study, I enjoy it, but there are countless other things I also enjoy and tend to choose instead of studying. Finally, you all know my feelings about driving practice. I wish I could drive well enough to feel safe and comfortable doing it, but I also wish I could get there without putting myself through the endless torture of doing it WITHOUT feeling good enough at it. I know, I know, that's an impossibility.
So, not putting these last three in the goals list, even though I want to do them, too.
In any case, have a safe end of 2018 and a happy, smiley hello to 2019 when it's time to welcome the new year in your part of the world.
See you next year! 🎆