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New Year's Not Resolutions Exactly
So I've got to go to the airport to go back to the US in like 13 hours or so.
I didn't make a resolutions post this year because this year is going to be tough to think about at all, moving back to the US and figuring out what to do with my life (you'd think I'd have a clue by the age of 33, but I don't, really).
Instead I thought about it the last day or two and so I have a few guidelines for how I want to do things back in the US, or in general:
1) Walk 15 miles a week.
I already do this without thinking about it in Japan. I need to continue doing it in the US.
2) Spend 30 minutes a day, or at least 4 hours a week, doing stuff in Japanese.
Again, this automatically happens for me in Japan. I'll have to make an effort in the US but I think 30 minutes is a reasonable amount, just surfing Japanese baseball web sites and reading college baseball blogs should take care of it for me. I worry that upping it to like 1-2 hours of study per day is going to knock me out.
3) Cook more. Or rather, in other words... start cooking. Period.
I'm not sure how to quantify a reasonable amount though. Before I find a job, I think I'd like to try to do a lot of cooking at home. After finding a job it's questionable. You have to understand, though, that currently, I don't cook ANYTHING at home. And even back in Seattle, I rarely did. But Mike and I actually have reasonably overlapping taste in food, so it'd be nice if I could find things I can cook for both of us, since part of my reason for not cooking is that I hate cooking for one person and I hate leftovers.
4) Do at least two active hobby activities per week.
(This shouldn't be hard, if I can get myself back into all my old activities like ballroom dancing, volleyball, softball, swimming, etc.)
And then I some goals for the next few months, which are...
A) Organize all my damn stuff, and pare down more of the crap I don't need.
I have a lot of stuff in Carl's closet back at the Ballard house, and I've also accumulated a bunch of stuff in Japan. Life would be easier if I had less stuff. But I really like baseball magazines way too much. Hmm.
B) Get a job.
This goes without saying.
C) Take a step back from my life in Japan and then try to collect thoughts for writing about it.
I don't like having a goal of "write a book" sitting on my head. I think the book will come when it's ready, and not when I feel pressured to work on it.
I didn't make a resolutions post this year because this year is going to be tough to think about at all, moving back to the US and figuring out what to do with my life (you'd think I'd have a clue by the age of 33, but I don't, really).
Instead I thought about it the last day or two and so I have a few guidelines for how I want to do things back in the US, or in general:
1) Walk 15 miles a week.
I already do this without thinking about it in Japan. I need to continue doing it in the US.
2) Spend 30 minutes a day, or at least 4 hours a week, doing stuff in Japanese.
Again, this automatically happens for me in Japan. I'll have to make an effort in the US but I think 30 minutes is a reasonable amount, just surfing Japanese baseball web sites and reading college baseball blogs should take care of it for me. I worry that upping it to like 1-2 hours of study per day is going to knock me out.
3) Cook more. Or rather, in other words... start cooking. Period.
I'm not sure how to quantify a reasonable amount though. Before I find a job, I think I'd like to try to do a lot of cooking at home. After finding a job it's questionable. You have to understand, though, that currently, I don't cook ANYTHING at home. And even back in Seattle, I rarely did. But Mike and I actually have reasonably overlapping taste in food, so it'd be nice if I could find things I can cook for both of us, since part of my reason for not cooking is that I hate cooking for one person and I hate leftovers.
4) Do at least two active hobby activities per week.
(This shouldn't be hard, if I can get myself back into all my old activities like ballroom dancing, volleyball, softball, swimming, etc.)
And then I some goals for the next few months, which are...
A) Organize all my damn stuff, and pare down more of the crap I don't need.
I have a lot of stuff in Carl's closet back at the Ballard house, and I've also accumulated a bunch of stuff in Japan. Life would be easier if I had less stuff. But I really like baseball magazines way too much. Hmm.
B) Get a job.
This goes without saying.
C) Take a step back from my life in Japan and then try to collect thoughts for writing about it.
I don't like having a goal of "write a book" sitting on my head. I think the book will come when it's ready, and not when I feel pressured to work on it.