Resolutions

Happy New Year!

First up, apologies for missing a week of posts, I've been out most evenings so it's been a struggle to find the time. I must have 'written' three or four whole posts in my head at various points when I couldn't get to a computer, perhaps they will appear at some stage in the unforeseeable future.

This is going to be a bit of a fragmented post, but hopefully my usual fluid and easy going style will return next week. Either way I digress.

The New Year is traditionally a time for looking ahead and setting yourself aims and goals for the forthcoming twelve months. I try to take the time to sit down and write out a few targets, which I then check back to every now and again to see how things are getting on. Overall I was moderately happy with 2008, though it went a little off the rails for most of the summer.

I could just list all my resolutions for next year, but some of them are private, some are boring and some just wouldn't make any sense to most of you, so, here are a few selected thoughts.

1) Creative Writing - I previously suggested that I'd try to blog twice a week (once with a blog and once with a poem) I'm going to change that slightly to a target of 4 blogs and 4 poems each month (in no particular order). Sometimes I want to write everyday for a week, sometimes I couldn't care less for a fortnight. This approach is a little more flexible.
However it's easier to keep things going when you know someone, somewhere is reading. So please leave feedback (just clicking on the awful, average, awesome buttons at the bottom of each post really helps)

2 - I want to stay in touch with my friends - Sounds a little foolish I know, but when you live about a hundred miles from many of your close friends and acquaintances it's all too easy to lose touch. In 2008 I travelled as far and as regularly as I could to stay in contact and no doubt I'll do the same in 2009. Obviously friendship is a two way process, if you want to hang out some time then just give me a shout

3 - I'm looking for meaning - Let's be frank, somehow I don't think it's my life's purpose to do low level admin work, I don't think anyone's ultimate purpose involves low level admin work. But this is not the time for round the world voyages of discovery to search for greater meaning...sadly.

I guess the way I see 2009 is thus, money will be tighter, so it's the cheaper (or better yet free) things in life which will set the tone. Share and share alike may be my mantra (though it'll probably be 'Better to have loved and lost' like every other year).

Keep blogging, and all the very best for 2009
D