Goodbye 2003... Welcome to 2004.

I can't say I'm sorry to say goodbye to 2003. I experienced a lot, and I felt a lot, and I grew a lot. It was quite a roller-coaster, full of intense lows and highs, and if you'd asked me to make predictions last January 1, never in a million years would I have guessed 2003 would happen the way it did. Despite it all, if I had the chance to go straight from 2002 to 2004, I wouldn't take that option, because I have the sense that 2003 has done a hell of a lot to help change me from the child I used to be to the adult I'm becoming. But that doesn't mean I'm not glad to say goodbye to it, and welcome in a new year with even more unpredictable surprises. I just hope it's a bit calmer and easier than 2003.

Ha! By the end of 2004, I'm going to be an almost-23 year old college graduate living who-knows-where working at a job doing who-knows-what. Scary, huh?

But let's not dwell on that. I have all of 2004 for blog entries dwelling on that. Let's move on to New Year's resolutions. It's kind of hard, because while I could make some college-related resolutions, that'll only cover 1/4 of 2004, and I really don't know what I'll be doing during the rest of the year so I don't know what resolutions will be appropriate. Oh, well, I'll have to be broad and vague.

1. Procrastinate less.
2. Learn more about nutrition, and experiment with making healthier and more nutritious foods that I like enough to eat on a regular basis.
3. Watch less television. Just because cable means that there's at least one moderately interesting show on at all times, that doesn't mean that the TV should be on at all times.
4. Develop more self-confidence.
5. Along with #4, work on both starting new friendships with others and developing the relationships with people I already know.
6. Try to care less about what people think about me if they're not important people in my life.

Think I can do it?
  ¶ 1:19 AM