Hello, February! As usual, I have no interest in starting resolutions on new years day. I like to settle in to the new year, see how it starts and then decide what I’d like to work on for the rest of the year. Sounds like a good excuse for being tardy, right? (Shhhh. It is). Anyway, so here’s what I’m thinking of working towards for the rest of 2009:
Around the Block, Around the World
For a few years now the neighbor friends and TKS have discussed starting a dinner club of sorts—with a theme, of course! We’ve talked several times about a world cuisine version and have never kicked it off. I think 2009 should be the year for this to start. And as with anything worth working towards, it has to have a good name, like: Around the Block, Around the World. Watch out friends and neighbors, I’ll be emailing you soon!
Run a half marathon
The memories of lost weekends to long runs with whole pizzas consumed at two in the afternoon, followed by five hour long naps have not yet disappeared from my marathon training memory, so I don’t think I’ll be doing another full marathon soon, but I would like to do a half marathon this year, preferably the Brooklyn half in May.
Get more involved with the NYC design community
Now that I am back to hands on design again (yay!), I’d like to get more involved with the design community that’s here in NYC. I don’t know what qualifies getting involved yet—maybe become an AIGA member and attend more of their events, maybe join the UX book club, maybe start a design blog (there’s not enough of those, you know…). I’m open to ideas, but the goal probably needs to be measurable, so I am going to say that I’d like to make at least three good efforts at getting more involved in 2009.
Take an improv class
Ugh. I don’t know if I can actually do this, I’m actually stressed just thinking about it as a I type, but it’s been something I have been tossing around for a while. I sort of hate speaking in public and I think taking an improv class might help alleviate this fear a bit. Or it could make it worse! We’ll see. I figure if I put it out there, I may actually do it. Ha!
Blog more!
I haven’t blogged in… I don’t know….forever? Since we started this site as a way to journal what we’re up to, for ourselves to look back on, but also for our our friends in far off places, it’d be nice to keep up with this a little more. I’d like to get back to posting at least once a week.
Do a project!
What kind of project, you ask? I don’t know! That’s the problem and partially the reason I hadn’t posted this list yet. I’d really like a project for the year and I just can’t decide on one. In 2007 I said I would read 24 books in 12 months, in 2008 I took a photo a day, and 2009 needs a project. Today kicks off thing-a-day which I have been less than successful at in past years, but perhaps it will initiate an idea for the rest of the year.
So there it is, folks. I’ll post more as these goals progress.
