1. I want to play a set and make a record of music with Dan Meyler.
2. I want to become proficient enough playing guitar so I can do #1 (which means I need to unlearn things(kidding)).
3. I want to talk to all of the people I havn’t had a chance to talk to in the past couple of years.
4. I want to be skinnier than I was in Highschool. I never thought I was skinny in highschool. But now that I am officially fat, I can understand how some people felt I wasn’t fat in highschool.
5. I want to go back to school. I have a list of a bunch of different schools I want to go to. Some for my degree and some to further my education. I don’t confuse the two anymore.
6. I have some other plans that I don’t write about.
7. I want to get a dog.
8. I want to go to Alaska with my family.
9. I want to write either a book or a script.
10. I want to be debt free.
11. I want to have no less than 6 BBQ’s.

So I just passed my year anniversary of working where I work. I was reminded of this by the fact that my dog died the same week I started. That isn’t something I would normally point out… it was brought up in a phone coversation with the family.

What have I learned/accomplished/gained from working for a year (a year without taking a week off for vacation).

1. I wasted too much money. It probably disapeared during my six months of commuting 500 miles a week. Or maybe I spent too much while I was paying rent on two appartments at once. Or maybe I bought too much stuff. Whatever it is… I have changed the way I save money. Before I would save 0% of my money. Now I save some. (not exactly true, but all I have to show for my money is stuff… though I like my stuff).

2. I don’t want to be doing what I do for the rest of my life. Not that I hate it in anyway. It’s a great job. I don’t dislike being there, the money is good, and (I forgot my third point). I just see myself at one point being either burned out from working here, or mad at myself for not doing something else I had interest in.

3. I wasted alot of time this past year. It’s not that I didn’t accomplish anything I wanted to do. It’s that I never thought about what I wanted to do.

4. I bought a bunch of furniture and stuff. I own a kitchen table, couches, living room furniture, and a red leather chair that sits in my room. I also have art on my wall and people compliment me on it.

I recently had an issue where my hours got cut. I got screwed over by the large corperation. I saw it coming. I’m not really bitter. After a year of working 40hrs a week, they cut me down alot. But the shake up was good for me as I needed to be reminded that there can be more than what I’m doing. So what did I do? I got a different job working for the same company. Less labor intense but still the same thing. My new job is a promotion for less money. I have to take a test Monday for it. It’s 2 hours long. There’s math on it. I asked if I needed a calculator… she said no calculators allowed. Which means they want to know if I can add and subtract large numbers. And I was gonna ask if I should refresh my trig.

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