{"id":81,"date":"2007-01-01T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T19:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/?p=81"},"modified":"2007-01-01T19:43:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-01T19:43:00","slug":"happy-new-year-welcome-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2007\/01\/happy-new-year-welcome-2007","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year – Welcome 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

My New Year’s Resolution in 1997<\/a> was “to keep better track of what the heck was going on in my life 1) so I could remember myself and 2) so I would have something to tell the jillions of people that ask me what’s been going on lately.” That’s when and why I started this blog. I’ve updated it pretty faithfully for the last ten years. I decided to take a month off in August\/September 2001<\/a> for the Virgo Month of Leisure, opting instead to blog by postcard<\/a>. That turned out to be a really weird month<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This blog has seen me get divorced<\/a>, buy a house<\/a>, throw a bunch of parties<\/a>, get by with cheap or free rent, become a librarian<\/a>, get blogger-famous<\/a>, date hippies<\/a>, protest the WTO<\/a>, land in the hospital<\/a>, go to Burning Man<\/a>, fall for a future law student<\/a>, travel the US<\/a>, move to Vermont, start new blogs<\/a>, make new friends<\/a>, add thousands of photos to Flickr<\/a>, make the papers<\/a>, and send and receive hundreds of postcards<\/a>. It’s finding me now in a big house, on the side of an icy road in Vermont, drinking coffee, wearing a wool hat and a wool sweater wondering what the next ten years will be like.<\/p>\n

The last six to nine months have been particularly up and down. While the end of my long-term relationship was a big deal in this sort of “I had a PLAN and now I don’t, wtf?!” way, being in a deteriorating relationship for a few months prior to that was what was more damaging and harder to get over. My Mom’s lung cancer diagnosis, surgery and treatment a few months later (doc says all clear for now, I can almost not type that for fear of jinxing it) was one of the more personally difficult things I’ve gone through as an adult, partly because I didn’t write much about it here or talk to many people about it. I don’t really have a “smiles everyone” approach to adversity, but I find public hand-wringing distasteful personally, so I don’t do it much here. It’s something I need to do a little work on.<\/p>\n

My professional life has done nothing but continue to be awesome which has been a nice solid bedrock underneath all the rest of this. Getting shoved into a familiar-yet-new living situation (same house, same place, just me) has been constantly fascinating to me. I feel very lucky to enjoy the inner workings of my own head, because I spend a lot of time in there. This work and travel year brought me new friendships and closer friendships with a lot of my existing friends. My travel schedule helped that to happen. Out of the 50+ places I stayed last year about a third of them were with people who I’d never stayed with before, a third were hotels and a third were family and existing friends. I feel like I have the plane\/hotel thing down<\/span> now, I did not feel that way at the beginning of the year. I’ve enjoyed having the last month or so to just be home and reconnect with my routine.<\/p>\n

This was also the first year I had any sort of a fitness routine, which I mentioned in the last post. Feeling in control of my health and weight has been a huge deal, I hadn’t realized how much it would be when I started. Keeping track of it has also been useful, since the organization part comes naturally and the results are obvious: I swam a ton, I lost some weight, I have been happier, I am musclier. A side effect of this has been an increase in general confidence which is a mixed blessing. I’ve always felt pretty confident but now, in my own me-driven, me-centered universe, that can border on arrogance and\/or aggression. I get competitive with myself and need to keep it in check to not be competitive with other people when it’s not appropriate. On the “to do” list.<\/p>\n

Another weird side-effect of making new plans is that since I’m not planning to move, leave my job and buy a house (G’s and my nominal post-law school plan) I find myself suddenly sort of … rich, relatively speaking. I had been saving money for a possible down payment which is now mine to do something with. Kate and I are travelling to Australia in early March which will suck up some of this, but not terribly much. I’m now in a situation where I’ve met all my short term financial goals and need to start thinking more sensibly about long-term ones. I’m going to start using Wesabe<\/a> in 2007 to track my pennies, but I need to put in place a larger plan to deal with my dollars.<\/p>\n

Other than that, my ongoing resolutions<\/a> to stay well-fed, well-slept, and around things that smell good seem well within my reach. I hope this new year brings you peace and joy. I’m optimistic that mine might.<\/p>\n

jessamyn<\/a>, abada abada<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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