Like sands through the hourglass...

...so are the days of 2007.

It's almost 10am and I should be showered and dressed by now, some mornings go easier than others, today is a 6. The coffee has started to work it's magic and soon I will be en route to the store to buy provisions for this evening and otherwise. My parents and a small assortment of friends will be stopping by tonight to celebrate New Year's Eve (quietly humming Auld Lang Syne)

Stick a fork in me dear sir, I'm done with this year. When I was a kid I used to write long, elaborate journal entries that encapsulated the dying year as well as outlined my hopes and resolutions for the next one. I don't know if I can bring myself to do it this year; I don't want to risk turning to salt.

It's time to put on my party pants and war-paint.

HNY!

Ann O

Happy Belated Christmakwaanzakah

I have not fulfilled my blogging obligations due to laziness and the holidays. Today is the 28th and this will be short, as I would like to leave work soon to brave the snowfall and go to Target to see what sort of crap I can buy for $50.

Christmas was lovely and I am happy it's over. For years I have been wanting the same present and I finally got it this year. I am the happiest crazy person you ever did see. I reached the end of 2007 with an old name, a new home, less hair and more acne. All of the tears and stress and lost sleep was worth it.

If I don't make it back here before the clock ushers us into '08, I want to say that I am finally where I am supposed to be and I am happier than I have ever been in my life. I have some resolutions/plans in the works.

This is a partial list in no particular order:

1. Learn web design
2. Research our home & document the process
3. Start the collaborative Aurora project with my fellow A-town enthusiasts
4. Take more pictures & learn about lighting techniques
5. Start sewing again
6. Stop being so defensive
   
7. LESS STRESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8. More patience with myself & everyone else
9. Write more
10. Work more
11. Let go of the past
12. Be more considerate
13. Stop leaving half-empty glasses of water all over the house
14. Save money
15. Decrease vanity
16. Make some split pea soup
17. Listen

Kisses!

Ann O

Obligatory Post #1

I am at work and getting very sleepy but I wanted to post something before heading out for the day.

In terms of creativity, it's been a productive day. I have come up with some new ideas for work, long-term career goals and a new collaborative project centered around my beloved City of Lights. The Project is just a hair past the zygote stage of development, but I think that it will be interesting and very fulfilling to work on. More on this later.

I love my job because it's flexible and I don't have a definite job description. It has an expiration date though and I am trying to figure out what I will do next. I would like to work from home via computer, ideally running my own business and doing something that I find interesting. I think I might have figured out a way to finance the education and starting costs.

That's it for now. I forced myself to write even though I didn't have overwhelming desire to do so. See, I'm trying.

Ann O

Greetings & Salutations

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

Dear Diary:

OMG! I can't believe it!! The CUTEST boy in school, talked to me today! Well, he didn't really talk to me, but he touched me. Accidentally. When he ran into me as I was leaving the bathroom (God, periods SUCK! EWWWWW!!) Nickie said I should be mad he didn't apologize for knocking my Trapper Keeper on the floor, but I could smell his cologne! It was GOOOOOD! I'm pretty sure it was Drakkar, cuz that's what I bought my Dad for Christmas last year.

Speaking of Christmas, I have NO idea what to ask my parent's for. I could be all like, "just give me a gift card to Hollister" but that's so LAME. Besides, even though everyone thinks that store is so cool, I would feel like a complete HOOKER if I bought my clothes there...

I couldn't think of anything witty or insightful to begin this blog with, so I chose to break the maidenhead with a limp joke.

Sometimes I wish I had the internal monologue of a 14 year old girl hopped up on Frappucinos. I would have something to say that was teeming with personal gravity and lacking any conscious dignity. Instead I'm left with a head full of half-finished thoughts and no motivation to flesh them out.

I have come to accept that I am an impotent wordsmith because of sheer laziness. There are times I can get it up if I don't stress out too much about the end result. I need to practice and force myself to say things, even if they lack substance. This model needs to be applied in almost all arenas of my life.

I want to stop sporting the old hat of apathy start moving forward. I hope that with the two-thirds discipline and one third creativity I bought on Craigslist, I might someday be able to write something that other people enjoy reading. Perhaps the day will come that this blog is not literary equivalent of some dirty hippie's patchwork jeans; time-consuming to construct and yet still sloppy in form.

Ann O