Looking Back and Looking Forward 2010 & 2011

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Huzzah! Success!!

I did see a comment last year about my job, which became more challenging and rewarding over the course of this past year. I am, however, becoming exhausted with the commute.

Somewhat resolved, due to moving further south.

I'll probably be getting more serious about public trans as gas prices may be jumping up again. I have discovered in this past year that I really like taking the Express Bus over the train. The train is brightly lit and full of chatty people who think it’s OK to have loud conversations at 6:30 AM. Then there’s the loud beep and station announcement ever few minutes.

The bus is generally quiet, and if I hit the 6:40 bus, the driver keeps the lights dim and turns them off for the drive.

And the seats recline.

There's also a comment in my post about getting a house. I thought it would have happened in '09, but it didn't. Maybe in '10. I'm just not super pleased with the pickin's in Utah. They're either too big (we don't need 6 bedrooms in our wildest dreams) and, thus, over our budget, or their pieces of sh*t. Or they're even farther away. We'll see.

Just as true in 2010 as it was in 2009. We saw some places that we had some interest in, but a lot of homes just started the short sell crap – one seller had repairs needed that the bank wouldn’t budge on. So, as stated above, we moved further south and stayed in the apartment situation.

I'll have to start thinking of some resolutions. I think that it might be good to set one or two to see how I do. There's a lot of room for improvement in my daily life that could be measured at the end of 2010.

Yeah, there’s still a lot of improvement, but I failed to set any goals for myself. My blood pressure ratcheted up to 160/110 this fall, in great part due to the tremendous stress I’ve been under in my personal life. I haven’t been sharing on here, or much of anywhere – and that’s something I plan to change. January promises to bring a lot of stress, too, so we’ll see.

My goals:

Find time to express, in some fashion, what’s going on. Bottling, or “stuffing” hasn’t been doing my any good. It’s not a good place when things are so bad that you feel like you can’t talk to anyone about it. So, even if I don’t feel like talking about it, I should be finding an outlet.

Really get a house, for real-real. I love the new apartment complex, but I’m not thrilled about it. We’re just paying a lot of moo-lah for something that really isn’t ours.

Go to the gym 3 – 4 times a week at a minimum. And don’t beat myself up when I can’t do it. This year has been a lot about self-flagellation in this department, and it’s not helping, so I need to quit it.