Not half bad -

[kyburg]

I didn't do half bad on my predictions this time last year.

I make the following predictions:

By this time in 2004, we will have replaced one of the cars. We have to.
Maybe we'll have made some headway into starting a family. Depends on the next three months.
Survival is all I can hope for. May I be pleasantly surprised.

Well, we're not quite there - but:

I've gotten the financing done to buy TWO cars. I've got the dealership looking for them now.
We have made headway into starting our family - but again, the process is taking longer than a year. There's something right with that - it'll be forever after the process is finished, won't it?

We have survived. Once could say, thrived even.

But the surprises weren't pleasant ones. Bush won the election (I'm still surprised), Mom got cancer, and my older brother still hasn't gotten a clue - and my sister still confuses me.

Still.

So this is the year of things changing, not changing (when I wanted them to), and concerted effort made to make change happen. By the end of next year?

- I hope we've at least been offered a placement.
- I want to see a number of LJ people in person. It's been years now, guys. Enough already.
- I want to be in Australia on my birthday. I want to have been to Switzerland before that.
- I want to see my Mother in Hawaii for her 80th birthday.
- I want to go back to Japan. I loved my brief taste of it, and I want more!
- I want to go back to school, and get into taking those dance classes I've been promising myself.

Let's see how it goes.