Resolutions, Hopes and Dreams

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Did you fulfill your possibilities in 2006 (http://www.loungeoftomorrow.com/LoT/showthread.php?t=2607)? We visited Alaska and bought our condo - yay.

What are you going to do this year?

I resolve to travel to New York/Chicago/Boston, or at least two of those.

I'm supposed to be looking into more school right now. I need to get motivated.

Both GD and I are setting up a budgeting spreadsheet and I resolve to stick to bringing home receipts and entering them. I love me some data.

I resolve to send bday gifts to Alaska on time.

I know there's more...

[€uroMeinke]

Ugh - looking back, I see work continued to plague me - teasing me into expectations and leaving me frustrated. If I have any workplace resolutions, it's to bump it lower inpriorities.

Travelwise, I made it to the places I mentioned and we did get to Boston, San Francisco, a Beat Retreat in the desert - but this year this will be bumped up in priority. We Go to London before the Spring and I hope we can make it to some other interesting places later in the year.

[Not Afraid]

I sure had big aspirations last year!

2006? I just want to take a bath today!

As usual, I'm project and event oriented. Heck, it's what I both excell at and enjoy.

Travel remains high on my list. We've got the time and the perfect job flexability to do it, why not do one of our very favorite activities more often?

Do less running about, focus on key clients and marketing activities, get rid of problem clients and attract better ones.

House Projects. There are a TON of them andd I WILL get some of these things done in the next year even if it kills me. Hey, we got to the garage, we can continue onward!

[Nephythys]

Pay bills. I will pay off my car this year and then that money will go towards other debt. In fact everything that can will go towards paying off debt. Except for one trip to Cali to see a special Bear I am not going anywhere- so....more money to pay off debt.

I am also going to go to the gym every day I can - we have one here at work for free- so I will use it at lunch. I need to get in better shape- not for vanity, but for health (and a little vanity)

I can't wait to get to the new year......

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Well, 2006 was the worst year I've had. So for 2007 it can go one of two ways, alot better or alot worse. I will plan for the worst and hope for the best.

[~MS~]

I won't be sad to see the last of 2006 for sure....

2007 goals....

Hugging one of my favorite bears....

Spending more time with loved ones and less stressing over people who don't matter in my 'real' life.

Getting more organized around my house so I can play with my craft stuff on a more regular basis.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Getting to the old country (aka Chicago, from whence my mom, my dad, CP's Dad, my sister's husband, and half of the Jewish population of the west valley hail) is tops on the to-do list. Extending that into a return visit to New York for the first time in 15 years would be lovely.

Definitely need to resolve to stay on top of finances. I don't suspect we're hemorrhaging money quite yet, even with the mortgage, but the mortgage means that for the first time it's a close enough line that I can't just eye-ball it and expect to be okay. But Excel should make that easy. All hail pivot-tables.

Maybe this year we'll actually remember to use the camera a bit more often. Too many photos not taken.

Keep better contact with people. I think I say that one every year. Ugh.

Get more active. Weekly soccer is helping, but once a week ain't enough. I have no illusion that I'll turn anything into a permanent habit, but I'd like to get some form of activity in my routine at least for a good portion of the year. Don't know if that'll happen before the weather turns warmer and the pool outside our front door becomes more inviting.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Heh, just saw this post (http://www.loungeoftomorrow.com/LoT/showthread.php?p=52023#post52023) from last year. The end result...best of both worlds. I've managed to position myself to where I'm working in the new direction with most of the benefit of staying with the old. So far it's netted me a promotion, higher visibility, and more responsibility. I'm voting for more of that this year.

[Alex]

The one big thing I hoped would happen in 2006 didn't. But it is completely out of my control so now I'll just hope it happens in 2007.

The one big thing in my control that was on the list for 2006 did happen (getting a real job again) though I didn't really want it to.

I don't ever make resolutions but I developed a task I'd really like to do in 2007. Otherwise I'm mostly content with life and will take it as it comes at me.

[tracilicious]

I hope that 2006 will be a year of personal growth and revelation. I'll work towards becoming better, stronger, smarter and happier. I hope for adventure, excitement, and serenity. I hope for travel and love and very little anguish. I want to experience as much as possible every day. I plan to live 2006 with drive and purpose and most of all hope.


Be careful what you wish for. 2006 was definitely a year of personal growth and revelation. And I definitely feel better, stronger, smarter and happier. The price for all that was higher than I would have ever guessed it to be, namely the love and acceptance of half my family (of which my Dad, Grampa, and two sisters are now not associating with me). Regardless, the changes I made were for the better and there was definitely adventure and excitement. Trade in the serenity for a much much thicker skin with a good dose of jaded cynicism, and my predictions were fairly accurate. :p

There was tons of love, but not enough travel. We only made it to DL once and didn't go anywhere else. I'm not sure if that will increase in 2007, but it definitely will over the next several years (ducks in a row, and all that).

Living with drive and purpose and hope is probably going to be my motto for the rest of my life. I think I did a decent job of it this year, but there's always room for improvement in the year to come.

What do I hope for in 2007? Calm. I would like to see the eye of the hurricane of life this year. A year of peace would be lovely. I would like to acquire some financial management skills, so that I'm not always screwing up our budget, build a savings account that actually has money in it all the time, see the floor of my laundry room on a regular basis, and be more organized in general.

This year is also my grand return to college, so I hope that I can keep up with that and still have time for my family. 2007 will bring us to DL at least once, but a Christmas trip would also be lovely. I'd like to see some of my Swanker friends that I haven't seen in so long and perhaps meet some that I have yet to meet.

I hope to get better at the things I want to get better at, and maybe even learn a few new things. I've gotten a good start to this weight loss thing this past month, and I'd really like to hit my goal weight within the next six months. I feel better when I exercise regularly, so hopefull that will become at least a partial habit.

Last year I had grand hopes and got grand results. This year I have mediocre hopes. I don't really mind if the results are mediocre as long as I live this year to the fullest extent possible. (Maybe I'll be so successful at that that in December of 2007 you'll all be wondering where I've gone. If that happens, don't worry, I've finally figured out how to get off the computer and live more minutes of my life. :p )

[BarTopDancer]

I don't make resolutions but I have some aspirations for 07:

Sucessfully complete every semester (winter, spring, summer and fall). They will be hard. I will have next to no free time but the payoff will be devine.

Find peace that I will not graduate in Dec of 07 like I had planned but in Spring of 08 instead. It's only 3 more months.

Become better with my finances - I have the books, I know what I should do, I just need to do it. I would like to pay off my credit cards. Any help with a budget spreadsheet is welcome. The ones I make are always lacking.

Spend less time online and more time doing other stuff.

[Alex]

Just curious if that was a mistype or if your school actually has four semesters a year?

[tracilicious]

I know the schools out here have the regular spring and fall semesters, but they also offer shorter and more intense summer and winter "sessions."

[Prudence]

I'd like 2007 to be more rewarding - well, not that this isn't rewarding at present - I'd just like the payoff to be more evident. I'd like a feeling that I'm accomplishing something other than earning yet another expensive piece of paper suitable for framing.

I want just a few steps into the future at least outlined. Is that so much to ask?

I want to feel less chaos and more design.

And more answers, fewer open-ended questions.

I want to successfully do what I have to do to earn that job - whether it's school work, becoming a size 2, whatever. I want to find the strength and commitment to see it through and do whatever is needed.

I'd like to be a little happier with me.

[tracilicious]

Oooh I forgot! 2007 brings my first tattoo and the changing of my middle name. I really wanted to get those things done before the years end, so that 2007 will be as uneventful as possible, but time is lacking.

[Kevy Baby]

I aspire to stay alive. Beyond that, I'm too tired to care at the moment.

I hope that the opening moments of the new year find me drunk!

[Babette]

I hope that the opening moments of the new year find me drunk! I second that (for both of us)!

I hope to organize all my photos and memorabilia that has filled at least 6 shoeboxes over the past 3 years. Maybe create scrapbooks or digital albums for all of my trips, social events and whatnot.

Travel, don't know the latest destination. Will be hard to top 2006: Santa Barbara, Palm Springs, Vegas, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Kentucky (and all states in between), Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. Phew, most of that was just from Memorial Day to Labor Day.

Keep in better contact with my friends, brothers and godchildren. Game night! Movie night! Whatever night! Try to have more social, hang out time with the people I enjoy to socialize and hang out with.

Drop the "Debbie Downer" :( attitude. I think I complained too much in 2006, so I will be all butterflies, rainbows and cupcakes for 2007! :) mmm...cupcakes!

Cook more homemade meals for my sweetie! Maybe even branch out to friends with dinner parties, but let's start small. :)

Read a LoT more!

[MouseWife]

I hadn't really thought about it.

I think I've been a 'downer' a lot and will work on that.

Appreciate my time more. {quiet wasting so much time on those Suduko puzzles...they really take a lot of time at my skill level}.

Appreciate my peoples more.

Work is limiting our time off thus limiting long trip plans. Quite depressing to us. I am going to work on not just talking about weekend getaways but getting away.

Getting back on my workout routine and making the kids do it with me. Everyone has lost weight but now we need to be healthy and strong.

Help direct the kids more into the direction they 'want' to go.

Clean out my closets & garage. Really big job there.

[€uroMeinke]

I hope to celebrate Columbus Day again in 2007

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Well, I apparently posted no resolutions last year so in that regard, I've kept to all of them. :)

Actually, my resolution was simply to get busier gig-wise. For the last six months or so, I've been averaging 15 gigs a month and it has been great, even though I grumble on occasion, due to lack of sleep.

This year my resolution is to write a lot more and try to get closer to my goal, which is to support myself by writing during the day and playing music at night. I don't know that I will acheive it this year but I would happy just to get a few steps closer.

[Jughead P. Jones]

2006 was actually a really good year for me, which I even find surprising. LOL! Usually, every single year gets ruined for me in some form or another, but '06 was practically perfect in every way.

(Now watch as something bad happens on New Years Eve '06 :evil: )

As for 2007, I have, but one dream.

MUST. GET. OUT. ON. MY. OWN. NOW!!!

[BarTopDancer]

Just curious if that was a mistype or if your school actually has four semesters a year?

My University has spring and fall and I am finishing up some lower division classes at a community college in the winter and the summer.

The community colleges here have winter, spring, summer, fall, 4-week, 8-week and weekend classes. And dispite all these semester offerings, classes are still in shortage.

[Alex]

Ok, that makes more sense. Does the community college call their four standard sessions semesters or quarters?

It's not important just semantic curiosity (since semester literally means six months long).

[lindyhop]

2006 was a challenging year (both good and not so good) and it ends with me feeling ready for the possibilities of 2007.

At work I want to continue my goal to go home on time so I can live what I consider my real life. But I have to figure out how to stop feeling like I have to push myself to the limit to get everything done. Not everything can get done (at least not by me) and I have to be okay with that.

Personally I want to spend more time taking care of things at home. I have this large but cluttered "walk-in closet" that I hope to have transformed into an actual spare room slash second bedroom by this time next year. Then when I've dealt with the clutter I might be able to paint and fix all the things that need fixing.

Most of all I want to continue the lifelong journey of becoming more myself.
:cheers:

[alphabassettgrrl]

2006 did all right by me. I met a cute girl who isn't afraid of me having a husband. I had several trips to Disneyland. I went back to school.

I don't make resolutions but my hopes for 2007 include: getting good grades in my classes; making the relationship with this girl into something real; I want a good job; and I want my dog to be as healthy and functional as possible for a very long time. He's recently a paraplegic, so I worry. I also want to get more projects done around the house here- kitchen cupboards, all walls, and my floors need work. Closets need cleaning. The yard needs pruning and a lot of work. I'd also like to get more reading done though during the school terms I don't have any time for pleasure reading. I have 10 books waiting for me, and am actually reading 3.

I want to see my friends more. I have always been an "on my own" girl but I'm finding that's not a good plan. Now that I'm aware, I should fix it and that means keeping in touch with my friends better than I have done.

[lindyhop]

I want to see my friends more. I have always been an "on my own" girl but I'm finding that's not a good plan. Now that I'm aware, I should fix it and that means keeping in touch with my friends better than I have done.

:snap: That's something I want to add to my own list.

[BarTopDancer]

Ok, that makes more sense. Does the community college call their four standard sessions semesters or quarters?

It's not important just semantic curiosity (since semester literally means six months long).

The community colleges here call them semesters. They are 16 or 18 weeks depending on what school you attend. I did not know that semester means 6 months. I learned something today. YAY!

[lashbear]

It's 2007 and I'm going to Disneyland ! :D

2006 was good but travel makes the year better (for us).

No-one's resolution is to come to Sydney to see me.... Boo Hoo. :( :p

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I may wish I were rich enough to afford the Aussie vacation I've always wanted...but our resolution involving continental US travel is the only realistic option at the moment. Sorry Lashie.

[innerSpaceman]

2007, huh?

Continue to, and improve upon, manifesting happiness by having happiness be my steady-state emotion, veered from only for truly good cause and for short duration. Continue to, and improve upon, manifesting love by always choosing love over fear, and thus being love always.

If that brings a boyfriend into things, great. If money comes along, fine ... but a straight rode to happiness without passing GO and collecting will be just fine by me, too.

Get in shape for the trek to the bottom of the Grand Canyon in June. Do those pesky house repairs that have been on the resolution list for a few years. And, hmm, 2007 may be the year I finally take up the saxophone.

[Alex]

Just yesterday I was saying to Lani that we should visit Australia on our way back from Madagascar (after a lemur flipped me off at the zoo* I figured I must go to Madagascar and see if wild lemurs are so crude or if it is the degrading effect of city life).

Of course, we'll first have to schedule the Madagascar trip.

*Photographic proof of said obscenity:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/143/339848827_91c9fa57ed.jpg

I literally said "hey lemur, look into the camera!" and he then made that gesture. I like to think that some zookeeper has been working in some extra training sessions.

[€uroMeinke]

No-one's resolution is to come to Sydney to see me.... Boo Hoo. :( :p

Probably not in 2007, but travel is a priority and that's one part of the globe I have yet to see

[tracilicious]

Get in shape for the trek to the bottom of the Grand Canyon in June.


Um, have you been to Arizona? June, really? You know it's hot, right? It isn't California hot. It's whole other planet hot. All the people I know here don't leave there houses unless it's to go to work, get in the pool, or get on a plane to somewhere more bearable for the summer. Being outside in June is so for tourists. Back me up, Scaeagles.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Heehee....can't wait to hear iSm's travelog.

[scaeagles]

Um, have you been to Arizona? June, really? You know it's hot, right? It isn't California hot. It's whole other planet hot. All the people I know here don't leave there houses unless it's to go to work, get in the pool, or get on a plane to somewhere more bearable for the summer. Being outside in June is so for tourists. Back me up, Scaeagles.

I completely got your back, Tracilicious. When we venture to Anaheim during the summer we just laugh at the people who find the mid 80s hot and complain. It's hysterical.

The months of June - August are why our newer vehicle has a remote starter. I'm used to the heat and can handle it, but getting into a car that's been sitting in the sun....that gets to me.

But about the topic.

resolutions....I have none. Really. I'm happy with myself, and not motivated enough about what I'm weak in to do anything about them.

hopes....I don't find myself hoping for much.

dreams....many. Most involve instant and unearned wealth falling at my feet to allow me to retire and pursue only what interests me for the rest of my life, and spoil my wife and children in a fashion they truly deserve.

[lizziebith]

I don't really resolve, but I'm up for adopting some healthier lifestyle habits, getting to the Grand Canyon for our anniversary in February, and being more social. Maybe I should make a resolution to resolve. Baby steps.

ETA: My dream trip list would be topped by Madagascar, because I'm a freak for Lemurs. Somewhere I've got a picture with one on my shoulders. They are really funky. I mean funky. :D

[Isaac]

I have no clue just yet.


and you ask me what I want this year
and I try to make this kind and clear
just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
cause I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
and designer love and empty things
just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
so take these words and sing out loud
cause everyone's forgiving now
cause tonight's the night the world begins again

:)

[Gemini Cricket]

I've decided not to do any resolutions this year. But I guess that in itself is a resolution... to not have any resolutions...
:D