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[naomi_jay]

 Happy New Year, y'all! I know I'm a bit early, but who knows when I'll have internet access again?

Actually, I do. It'll be Wednesday, when I go back to work.

Anyway, I hope you all had a marvellous Christmas and got everything you wanted. I did! Both my promised bottles of perfume, plus a digital camera *drools over her camera for it is heavenly* and many, many chocolates. So many I actually took the unprecented step of throwing some away and forcing the rest onto an unsuspecting friend who foolishly came to see me. Mwhahahaha.

So, it's nearly 2008. I don't make New Year resolutions, because I never keep them, and I figure it never stays a new year long enough for me to fulfill them. Instead I'm setting goals, which may or may not take a whole year to fulfill. Prepare for a list:

1. Finish Wild, for God's sake. Shouldn't take long. I have no excuses when I'm thisclose to the end.

2. Finish first draft of Death for the Born (at which point I'll probably decide it's tripe and should never have been written).

3. Write first draft of Apocalypse Angel Novel (hereafter AAN).

4. Write first draft of full-length Painless Novel (hereafter known as Slow Burn).

5. Speculate on that dream I had about a group of shapeshifters that might make a good novel. (I figure this one will be the easiest to achieve, as I'm very good at speculating).

I should probably add "spend less time procrastinating and making lists of things to do and just do them" as a goal, but I don't think it's a habit I can break. I am nearly 25 after all, and my personality is probably fixed in stone by now.

Comments

[madlee276.livejournal.com]

Happy New Year to you too, spud! :) Nice goals!

[heroineforhire.livejournal.com]

happy new year to you too babe!

yessss reach thoes goals give Lani something full of awesome to read.

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

I am nearly 25 after all, and my personality is probably fixed in stone by now.

Since 25 I've, ooh, let me see... ditched my career; as a corollary, ditched my entire outlook on the meanings of things like "happiness" and "success"; ditched a major lifestyle choice; unditched it again only differently; taken up at least three new hobbies; the list goes on.

I always wish more people had the confidence to make choices for the person they are and just say "because it's the right thing for me". Most folk seem to feel they have to blame their own self-confidence and maturity on some sort of internal fossilisation; as if you hit a certain age and set solid, like plaster of Paris...

[six-old-cars.livejournal.com]

The nice thing about plaster of Paris is it's really quite easy to break :)

So, since 25 I have... changed jobs only once and that within the same sector, adjusted my outlook on life and faith somewhat, but not drastically, resurrected a couple of old hobbies and taken up writing, somehow got involved in working with young people, flirted (briefly) with driving a modern car, err...

OK, so I'm much more boring and predictable than lark_ascending but I think that's just because I've always been quite happy with who I am. Sure there are things I'd like to be better at (like not wasting time procrastinating!) but nothing terrible enough to worry about.

Anyway, Nome, good list of goals. Now you just need to go ahead and achieve them!

Happy New Year

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

much more boring and predictable

... 'much more employable and less easily distracted', shurely? ;)

Happy Holidays!

[dracschick.livejournal.com]

always nice to see you in LJ land.

glad you're having a good one. I am too.

*hugs*
take care,
Chris

[tezmilleroz.livejournal.com]

You GAVE AWAY chocolate? See, this is why I worry about your mental wellbeing ;-)

Have a lovely day! :-)