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Feb. 5th, 2009 07:18 pmI've been meaning to write a wrap-up of January, and perhaps a brief review of 2008. This post will be briefer than I originally intended, but then considering I haven't gotten to it (maybe because I'm having trouble finding the time to write that much), this will have to do.
The year started well, though it began at the end of a sometimes fun, sometimes stressful period of forced togetherness euphemistically known as "the holiday season/snowpocalypse 2008." As for January, I seem to remember holding my breath a lot until Jan. 21, our new President's first real day of work.
One highlight of January, I attended a reading by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lisa_schroeder of her new book, where I also got to meet lkmadigan. Lots of fun!
In January, I paid attention to my natural inclinations and interests and tendencies for a while and decided that 2009, or at least the start of it, is about cleaning up messes made and/or messes left un-dealt with in 2008. There are a few. 2008 was about enthusiastically jumping into projects I really wanted to be a part of but didn't yet have the resources to truly participate in. I let myself down a lot in 2008, and I suspect I let some others down as well. What seems to be happening for this year is that I'm reluctantly owning my capacities and limitations, which seems to be leading to projects actually being dealt with -- I've been in contact with some of the people I've disappointed, cleaned up some messes, identified others, and generally been perfectly okay with where I am and what I'm doing, and I'm learning to be okay with not doing, because I think I'm going to get there, to doing things, eventually. I've had a strong "urge to purge" since right before Christmas, and I've done a lot of organizing of files and paperwork, I've gotten rid of a bit of useless stuff, and last weekend I took 5 boxes of useful-to-other-people stuff to Goodwill. At this pace, I'll have really gotten the house looking pretty good by midsummer. I can live with that.
As for February, I am taking on something new, which has me excited and a little scared. I'm going to be attending an all-weekend writing workshop starting Friday night this week. I'm really not sure I'm ready to be writing again, but I'm excited to give it a try and see what comes of it.
That's it for now. I'll post a rundown of the writing workshop next week.
The year started well, though it began at the end of a sometimes fun, sometimes stressful period of forced togetherness euphemistically known as "the holiday season/snowpocalypse 2008." As for January, I seem to remember holding my breath a lot until Jan. 21, our new President's first real day of work.
One highlight of January, I attended a reading by
lisa_schroeder of her new book, where I also got to meet lkmadigan. Lots of fun!In January, I paid attention to my natural inclinations and interests and tendencies for a while and decided that 2009, or at least the start of it, is about cleaning up messes made and/or messes left un-dealt with in 2008. There are a few. 2008 was about enthusiastically jumping into projects I really wanted to be a part of but didn't yet have the resources to truly participate in. I let myself down a lot in 2008, and I suspect I let some others down as well. What seems to be happening for this year is that I'm reluctantly owning my capacities and limitations, which seems to be leading to projects actually being dealt with -- I've been in contact with some of the people I've disappointed, cleaned up some messes, identified others, and generally been perfectly okay with where I am and what I'm doing, and I'm learning to be okay with not doing, because I think I'm going to get there, to doing things, eventually. I've had a strong "urge to purge" since right before Christmas, and I've done a lot of organizing of files and paperwork, I've gotten rid of a bit of useless stuff, and last weekend I took 5 boxes of useful-to-other-people stuff to Goodwill. At this pace, I'll have really gotten the house looking pretty good by midsummer. I can live with that.
As for February, I am taking on something new, which has me excited and a little scared. I'm going to be attending an all-weekend writing workshop starting Friday night this week. I'm really not sure I'm ready to be writing again, but I'm excited to give it a try and see what comes of it.
That's it for now. I'll post a rundown of the writing workshop next week.
