Ahh the New Year is here. What am I going to do with it?

So here I am, already four days into the new year and what am I doing? The same thing I always do, I’m existing. I’ve been existing for so long, I really think it is all I know how to do. I need to make a change. I need to find a way of improving my situation, and my life. I wake every day and I just go through the motions. I do what I need to do and I don’t plan for the next day until it begins. I need to have a plan and I need to change the way I interact with life.

My first resolution (God I hate that word but it fits here) is to write more. I’ve tried in the past with daily goals and soon, due to the unstable nature of my household, I find that I miss a few days and then I fall out of the practice. This year I am going to try something new. I am setting weekly goals, 3500 words each week. By doing this if I get to write one day and not another I still have time to catch up on the word count and if I fall short by a few I can still catch up during the next week. I’m hopeful that this will keep me writing all year, even if it isn’t every day. If I can do it, I’ll write enough for 2 novels this year.

On a more personal front, I want to try and enjoy my life more. I want to spend more time as a family, doing family things. I tired of the every man for himself attitude that has pervaded our home. We all come home and go and do our separate things. We barely know that there are others in the house. We almost ignore each other. I want to try and change this attitude. I want to have family games, that we are all involved in. I want to be a family. I need to be more expressive of that feeling, and all others for that matter. It just bugs the hell out of me when one of us goes to do something and the other assumes that we are gone for the night and goes looking for something else to do. It just needs to stop. I’ve only got a few ideas and hopefully they will work. In the long run I want us to be a stronger family unit.

Well, thats it. That is what I have for the New Year. Hopefully 2008 will be everything that I believe it can be. I can hope can’t I.

Oh and a couple more things. I want to stay in more contact with my friends, both online and off. I would also like to go to Balticon this year and meet some of the great minds that infest my online community, that would help make it a perfect year. Just need to figure out the money.

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