So here we are again -

[kyburg]

And it won't be long now. Ghad, as much as I hate to see time pass without making the most of it - 2007 can leave the building and I won't miss it one bit.

Let's take a quick look back at what I expected and see if it's as far off as last years -

- Better financials to show for by this time next year. I'll be able to change banks - I should also make better plans.

Overall, I'd give this about 25% - better, but not so over the top I'm applauding. Still plenty of room for improvement, but overall. Not bad. I *did* get the banks changed - and couldn't be much happier.

- I insist on visiting people this year. A bunch of them in Texas. No, I don't plan on doing conventions. Unless you have planned to do one with your friends, seeing friends at a convention is a sure thing for a very disjointed experience.

Still have not made it out to Texas to see friends. For work, sure. But not to see anyone. This needs work. Still. A bunch more on the East Coast. I can go around the world and not visit Boston. Tell me this is wrong. I'll agree with you. *puts this one back on the board for 2008*

- I suspect the whole becoming a family issue will be made this year. I hope to have a placement - or be very close to it, by this time next year.

We're closer. We're further away. We're so firmly in a holding pattern, I can't say what's going to happen. Except we're committed to becoming a family of more than two. How and when, still not clear. Answer hazy, check back later.

- I also expect I'll lose my mother this year. I'd love to be wrong, but so far - I haven't been. Her status just gets too precarious too quickly. I've had two other elders in my circle go into the hospital for permanent placement into care since I last posted - both expected, both for exceptionally good reasons...and I called it both times. (I really shouldn't know this...but I do and it sucks.)

I am wrong. I hereby love myself. *mwah mwah*

Put I'll put this one back on the list for 2008. I have to. I likely will each year she is still with us.

- I'd like a title change at work.

Nope. It's good to want. Builds character.

- I want to add at least one more work-related skill.

I think the most useful thing I could add is some trust and confidence that everything is fine, and boredom is a normal result of doing a good job.

And I need something more than surfing the internet to keep me occupied.

- I'm going to get the fan fiction site updated, and get new stuff out there. I've paid for a DNS for three years and the webspace to go with it and only use it for images and mp3 downloads. Feh.

Nope - but not entirely. I did the yuletide challenge for the first time this year, and I did add the wireless router. I'm now eyeing some machines for web and file serving uses. Maybe soon. Maybe now.

- I've heard from everyone in Switzerland - they want me to come visit. This has to be given some priority.

God knows, I tried. I will simply have to keep trying. Being in San Francisco over the weekend reminded me so strongly of Zurich, it was uncanny - I haven't been there since 1992. I want to go. I need to go. I have to find a way - to go.

- I also need to go back and get started learning German, and the Japanese too. I like it - and I'm reasonably good at learning it.

Money...and time. Money. And time. All good, but let's be realistic. Money. Time.

Let's do a quick and dirty for this coming year -

- I expect changes in the adoption process. We will either be able to see our placement from China, or will be leaving that program for one that will end in a placement. It still may not be next year, though.

- We're going to do whatever we must with the house. Remodel or tear down and start over.

- I want to see my friends in their natural habitats. Is this the year a filk convention might make sense?

- I want to get those 50 books read.

- I have to leave Mom on the "might leave the building" list for 2008. It does feel less precarious right now than this time last year, though. May just be battle-hardened, though. Hard to tell.

- I want to make something by knitting that can be put in good service. A sweater, a baby afghan. Something.

- I want to go back to Hawaii.

- I want more spoons and less forks.

*claps hands* So be it.

Comments

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

If flower_cat could use an extra hand, that's usually where you find me at a convention...that, and con ops or security (which really ought to scare you).

March is a birthday month. We'll see - and since I don't sing (well, I do. Just not well.), filk conventions would be a truly spectator event.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

flower_cat in my experience will always welcome extra minions. And there's more than enough spectating to do amongst the concerts... matter of fact, I barely did any circles atall...