Six Week Check-Up

It's like being Pregnant!

    Okay, bad joke, and yes, I realize one gets a check up more often than that when they're pregnant. As it turns out, time moves more quickly than I thought it would and it's time to see how horribly I'm doing at these resolutions I mostly forgot I made:

• Make this apartment feel like home: There is a noticeable difference, that's for sure. I still haven't found that perfect chair, and I haven't framed the art yet, but I keep fruit and vegetables lying around, which, as far as I'm concerned, is major progress.


• Love my job: Not so much. I did interview for a position I was in no way qualified for though, and I came near to convincing the man to hire me. I have a few other applications out and am doing everything short of holding my breath.


• Go someplace I've never been in the US: This is really more like a summer goal, so no progress yet. I'm thinking Charleston, SC...


• Write every day: I've missed about six days of writing, I would say, but at least four of them were totally justified. I'm mostly proud of the nights I was tired and cranky and on the brink of only get 4 hours of sleep before work, but I wrote anyway. I need to keep doing that. It's been keeping me sane.


• Blog once a week: I need to try harder. I was bad at February, but then again: it's February.


• Write more letters: Check and check. I agree with M1 that I've written more letters so far in 2009 than I did all of 2008. Unfortunately, too many of then have been letters of condolence.


• Be a better friend, especially by communicating more through telephone and email: For some I've gotten better, but for others I still need to try harder. I blame this mostly on my fatigue. After working long days, picking up the phone is the last thing I want to do, no matter how much I love the person on the other end. I need to keep reminding myself how important it is to overcome that.


• Be a better friend to the planet by being energy and waste conscious: Shockingly, I would give myself a B+ on this one. On "Laundry Sunday" my apartment looks pretty ridiculous, and I've been really good about turning things off and using my TJ's bag. I just need to keep it up.


• *Expletive, expletive* update my *expletive* iPod: Despite the expletives, this one remains undone. Maybe next weekend I'll give it a go.


• Read more books: Yes! I read two books last month (not a lot, I know, but last year I was only managing one a month), and I'm starting my third book of this month tomorrow, so I'm pretty proud of myself.


• Spend more time outside: Yes! Between Kristi being in D.C., going to Inauguration, celebrating the Lincoln Bicentennial, and being in New York this weekend, I've spent plenty of time outside seeing as how it's still winter. I couldn't be happier for it, either. I have a feeling I'd be in a much worse place psychologically if it wasn't for all of the outdoor activity.

    So how do you think I'm doing?