my life as a nomad

live another day

i just realized that it's 2006. whoa. i was doing something at the bank and writing down the date and i had to stop and think for a second about what year it was. so yeah... 2006. the last half of 2005 was so amazingly stellar (and the first part of this one even more so) that the rest of the year will have it's work cut out to live up to expectations.


still no job, although things are looking slightly more promising in that general theme. more on that later.


i'm not the sort of person to make all sorts of crazy new year's resolutions for several reasons: (a) i most likely won't live up to any of them, (b) i probably would forget all about them within a week or two (in fact, maybe i did make some resolutions but have forgotten them already. a distinct possibility), and (c) i like to think on broad scales... which is why i have my master list of 50 things i want to do before i die. i've been trying to target a few items for special attention every year. last year was a banner year, as i crossed off two items (skydiving and whitewater rafting), came closer to completing a few others (like visiting all fifty states... now only have kansas, iowa, nebraska, and hawaii left to go), and realized that some items are going to be alot harder to complete than i originally thought. but that's ok... i enjoy a challenge.

i also realized that it was pretty limiting to keep the list at just 50, so instead of trying to replace items on it with more worthwhile entries, i've decided to allow the list to expand. it's currently standing at 54, with the recent addition of a few items.

anyways, here's a few i'm going to target for this year. i'm not putting this up here to try and pump myself up, or make myself look good for having lofty intentions... rather i know that i'm likely to wimp out and not get anything done, so i figure a little bit of pressure and accountability can't hurt. so here's my short list of things i plan on at least attempting to accomplish this year:

• graduate from college
  
• fly a kite
• give blood
• go to a red sox game at fenway park
  
• own a motorcycle
  
• some other miscellaneous personal/character type goals which will remain mysterious and unidentified to the public, but are no less important

you're probably thinking, what sort of guy is this who hasn't graduated/ flown a kite/ gave blood/ gone to a red sox game? i dunno. the important thing to me isn't that i haven't done them yet... but that i will. eventually, anyways. hopefully sooner rather than later (especially the college one)

so there. i'm at 6 out of 54 right now (11%), and if i manage to knock off one or two every year i should be good to go. i guess i better get started... but not right now. time to watch some college football first


(here comes the procrastination already)


-noonan-

posted by Patrick @ 7:31 PM