Moving On

I should probably be writing the obligatory list of memorable moments of 2008. There were definitely some great moments over the past year but I find them mostly overshadowed with the break-up of my relationship, just shy of 5 years. It started as "space" in September. Since then I've kept reminding myself it's for the best and eventually I began to believe it. Leave it to some ecards to make the point: Please take me back so I remember why we broke up. So snarky and so spot on. Rather then reflecting any more on last year I'm looking forward to the future. I'm not really one to make New Year's resolutions, I just make changes as I feel they're needed (well except in aforementioned relationship, that went on a bit longer than necessary). The following list is not exactly new behavior. Lots of it I've been doing for some time but the New Year is a good time to rededicate myself to these pursuits.


  1. Eating well: making more of an effort to shop at the Willy St Coop and Trader Joe's. Visit the Coop deli rather than eating out. Expanding my repertoire to include more new dishes. My fabulous and super-knowledgeable hair stylist told me about the blood type diet. Apparently O's are supposed to eat meat and stay away from wheat. I'm a hardcore veg but I'll try to emphasize protein and try more gluten free dishes to see if I notice any extra energy. She also opened my eyes to questions about soy food safety. Love tofu but will change to rice milk and try to eat more fermented soy (miso, tempeh) since those are allegedly safer. 
  2. Working out: love the Y, couldn't visit it as much last semester due to web class conflicting with zumba class. The first half of next semester is an online course so I should be able to salsa, merengue and hump the floor at least two nights every week.
  3. Continue Learning Web Design: stick with it despite it's challenges, use down time at work and home to read web design blogs, tips and tricks, fire up smultron and try it out regularly rather than wasting time on facebook, twitter etc...
  4. Date intelligently: look for common interests and warm-heartedness in potential partners, have fun but recognize when what I need is not there and walk away, don't waste time with fixer-uppers since that never works anyway
Welcome 2009, be mine.

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