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Phalanx
10-06-2008, 02:58 AM
Just wondering what the gameplan is for your next year?
Nothing like NY resolutions - just wherever it looks like reality will take you.

So here's mine...
A while back as some of you might remember, I got pretty into the cooking thing to the point I actually enrolled in chef studies. Due to a couple of things, an unsupportive job and a few debt-related issues, I got a little pissed off and dropped it. Still cooked and all, just decided not to take the studies any further.
Thing is, I was good at it and I've realised that even if only for personal interest I should go back and complete it.
This time I guess I'll only be applying for jobs that actually entail a lot of cooking - if they want a dishwasher/stock guy they can hire one...need to be learning and that's what I'm going with (spare the chime-ins about starting from the bottom...because that's what I'm doing, just not becoming the "spare") this time.

So I'm redoing everything that I didn't get a distinction in last time (I got about 9 as I recall) just to see if I can better my score, not to mention it's fun for me.

Other than all that...just working my way towards debt freedom, and hitting up the gym to trim myself a little more into shape - which having done the cooking thing before, lets me know this is something I'll need.

Funny how working a year in a REALLY crappy job with no chance of progression can change things for you, hm?

Also going to put together my first hydroponics and my girls first airponics bay.

May be having my younger brother live with me for 6 months someplace in '09.

So, plans?

Vodstok
10-06-2008, 04:24 AM
Work work work. Write write write. Clearing debt is abig one for me too, and working out needs to start happening, especially since i was about 213 when I started this job a month ago and now i'm 224...

urgeok2
10-06-2008, 06:03 AM
next year - hopefully get to at least yellow belt in Tae Kwon Do ..
And get my knee back in shape to the point where i can play men's 2's beach volleyball without an ambulance on standby.

in other words - GET IN SHAPE !

i also hope to take some camera model specific courses plus a college level photography course.

I want to get the library built and the books all sorted out and on the shelves.
Hardwood floor in the library and dining room.

maybe do a little writing (i say this every year)

have more fun this summer with my kid (last summer was literally a wash out - rained every day for 2 weeks when we were off together)

take the family to cuba sometime after christmas.

see my godson more ...

have fun !

Leprucky Cougar
10-06-2008, 06:55 AM
More writing...probably study abroad for a year or so...probably in Scotland or some other country besides France and Great Britain...no particular reason for the choosing of this country. Nothing against the brits or Frenchies (you guys are great), but I hear alot of people visit GB while in Europe--and I don't hear much of any other besides France...and working.

urgeok2
10-06-2008, 06:58 AM
...probably study abroad for a year or so....

i've been studying broads my whole life.



christ yes - i know that was lame - but i still had to beat Newb to it :D

The Flayed One
10-06-2008, 07:22 AM
Settle down.

I don't mean getting married. I have a house I think I'm going to stay in for awhile. I have a decent paying job with good stability. So I'm basically going to stop roaming from place to place and do what I love most: write and catch up on my horror.

Oh, and I might do a small project...

newb
10-06-2008, 07:36 AM
I got me a Wi Fit.....so i'm on my way to better health:D

Spend quality time with the grand-daughter

Just picked up a 500 gig external hard drive for my comp...so i'm going to attempt to get my music and pictures in some kind of order.

Try to drink MORE beer than I did last year [ this goes along with my better health plan ]

urgeok2
10-06-2008, 07:38 AM
IJust picked up a 500 gig external hard drive for my comp...so i'm going to attempt to get my music and pictures in some kind of order.



thats a big one for me too - especially the pictures ... i bought an external drive as well for this

newb
10-06-2008, 07:43 AM
thats a big one for me too - especially the pictures ... i bought an expernal drive as well for this

The 320 gig was $79...the 500 was $99

I figured for $20....why not

urgeok2
10-06-2008, 07:48 AM
The 320 gig was $79...the 500 was $99

I figured for $20....why not


i got the 1 terrabyte for $180
nice looking drive too ..sleek and black, with an orange stripe that lights up when its online ..

i take a lot of high def pics - 1000's at a time - so i can fill this thing fast

Despare
10-06-2008, 11:40 AM
Still have a lot of year left, wife is looking at a new house and a new car though... joy.

Leprucky Cougar
10-06-2008, 11:50 AM
i've been studying broads my whole life.



christ yes - i know that was lame - but i still had to beat Newb to it :D


It's nice to know that but...

I'm impressed...:D even if that was a guy joke...I loved it and no it wasn't lame. Have any others?

Leprucky Cougar
10-06-2008, 11:50 AM
Settle down.

I don't mean getting married. I have a house I think I'm going to stay in for awhile. I have a decent paying job with good stability. So I'm basically going to stop roaming from place to place and do what I love most: write and catch up on my horror.

Oh, and I might do a small project...

What kind of small project?

pinkfloyd45769
10-06-2008, 08:20 PM
I will be back in school,Early Childhood Development/Family Specialist.
I will also continue working where i am now,i like this job and it is actually going to be where i continue to work after i finish school.I will be happy if it kills me.I want this one more than any so far.I'm hoping to get a nice apartment and keep looking for another house.More than anything else in the whole world...I WANT full custody of my children.If nothing else,i want to set limits on visitation.I have started writing,i really like it and hope to continue.I'm thinking of writing or trying to write a childrens book..we'll see;)
................maybe i'll meet a nice guy:)