December 30, 2005

2005

Abby had a cool end-of-year thing on her blog today. I'm stealing it. I don't have as many months filled as she does, since I spent half the year traveling. Still, it's fun to grab a little snapshot from each month like this.

2005 for me: I did take the round-the-world trip I was planning in January; I did stop smoking (although I may well have a cig in a bar on New Year's eve or something); I still want THE FUTURE to show up already; J and his family are still in my thoughts, if not my life; my own family (and W's family) have become more central in my life, especially as folks get older and illness happens; Katrina fucked me up but good; I'm still adjusting to the changes of the past few years; and I still really like the stuff I like.

The snapshots, Abby-style:

  • This weekend I read the thoroughly engaging Holy Cow, and the pretty-good No Touch Monkey!. Next up is Video Night in Kathmandu.
    We got a small stack of Europe-centric books from my family for Christmas, but I'm very Asia-focused right now. I even started a tacky Amazon.com Wishlist to keep track of wanna-reads.

  • I was dealing with my own family this weekend, and I thought about J's folks. I remember thinking "dangit, I don't get to spend holidays with Craig anymore". And, dangit, now none of us do.

  • Tonight I'm gonna head to Mynxie's burlesque show, then to SBI's birthday party. If I have time, I'm gonna dye my hair burgundy. w00t!

  • Also, the plants in bloom around here smell great. I naively thought I wasn't smoking enough to mess with my sense of smell. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Cigarette smoke still doesn't smell bad to me, though. But it never has.

  • THE FUTURE: It's here.

  • Y'all know to go to withoutreservations.net these days, right?

  • We're in Portugal, still bloggin' over at withoutreservations.net. About to try to drag ourselves away from CNN and go see Evora.

  • Watch it. All of it. I'm serious.

  • Do not try to understand things that make no sense outside the crazyverse.

  • FB: See after the first coupla hundred times that happened I woulda registered a complaint with customer service.

2006 looks like this so far: Working for a guy who wants a million little mobile apps (Tribe woulda been a great test platform for the first one too. Feh.) Publishing more how-to geek articles for Corporate America. Travel to Vancouver, NYC, and New Zealand. Pitching a couple books (one travel, at least one tech) and crossing my fingers. Figuring out how the fsck to keep up with the mortgage and the property taxes while not giving up the freelance life. Loving Walter. Staying in touch with friends on purpose, and not just when they show up on the same SNS at the same time. Keeping the weight off that I lost while traveling, and hopefully getting fitter still.

Sounds good to me.

Posted by Liz at December 30, 2005 03:51 AM
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