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1 January 2005 12:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
in_steadSo, the new year is here and it's going to take me at least until February to remember to date things 2005. I foresee many ruined cheques in my near future. I spent the new year in the company of three of my favourite people -- my mother, my little sister, and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mcee. My father is in Cuba, visiting his best friend, who currently lives there.
We had a very nice, quiet New Year's Eve. There was a massive dinner, which, due to unforeseen weather related circumstances, my mother planned, but I ended up cooking. I'm pleased to report that everyone seems to have survived the experience. There was also, in a very girly turn of events, a bout of hair dying and teen-magazine quiz giving. I, apparently, have an earthy personality, my personal style may best be described as classic, and, if I were a dog, I'd be a cocker spaniel/poodle mix. My sister and I have now have a matching shade of dark brown hair -- the same colour as our eyebrows, which makes it look quite natural.
We are, I can assure you, very gorgeous. Yes.
Then we watched Garden State and the director's cut of King Arthur and ate cheese and crackers and grapes and mint chocolate chip ice cream. We rang in the new year just as Tristan said, "I aim for the middle."
So, 2004. It's ended on something of a sour note, with my cousin being diagnosed with leukemia on December 27th. Because he is only twenty-four, is otherwise very healthy and because they caught it fairly (although not extraordinarily) early on, the doctors seem pretty hopeful. He began chemotherapy on the 29th and will be spending the month of January in the hospital undergoing continuous treatment.
The year as a whole was okay. Not great, not bad, but okay. There were some definitive low notes (see: last academic year's experiences). There were some incredibly lovely high notes (see: ENGLAND, where I metthe_oscar_cat and _peapod and blythely, all of whom I adore, and got to spend a month curled up in lazlet's lap -- <3!!).
My immediate family, if not my extended one, and all my friends and even my cats are healthy, which is something I'm valuing rather highly just now.
I don't really know what I'm going to be doing this time next year, which is not a situation that I'm entirely comfortable with. I don't particularly like ambiguity. I'm more of a make plans and charge forth kind of person. But I will figure it out, one way or another. At the very least, I'll have finished my Master's degree, which is something.
I make just about the same resolutions every year, and this year is no exception. I will not be discouraged by the holiday season's excesses and give up entirely. I will continue to eat healthily and hopefully lose a little weight. But the healthy eating is the important part. I will rediscover my discipline regarding exercise, largely by reminding myself that exercise isn't a chore, but rather something that makes me feel good and that, on the whole, I enjoy. I will go to the gym a little more regularly, I will swim a little more often, and maybe I will even find the odd day here and there to go skiing, now that I've inherited my sister's old skis and so have decent equipment again.
And that is that.
mcee. My father is in Cuba, visiting his best friend, who currently lives there.We had a very nice, quiet New Year's Eve. There was a massive dinner, which, due to unforeseen weather related circumstances, my mother planned, but I ended up cooking. I'm pleased to report that everyone seems to have survived the experience. There was also, in a very girly turn of events, a bout of hair dying and teen-magazine quiz giving. I, apparently, have an earthy personality, my personal style may best be described as classic, and, if I were a dog, I'd be a cocker spaniel/poodle mix. My sister and I have now have a matching shade of dark brown hair -- the same colour as our eyebrows, which makes it look quite natural.
We are, I can assure you, very gorgeous. Yes.
Then we watched Garden State and the director's cut of King Arthur and ate cheese and crackers and grapes and mint chocolate chip ice cream. We rang in the new year just as Tristan said, "I aim for the middle."
So, 2004. It's ended on something of a sour note, with my cousin being diagnosed with leukemia on December 27th. Because he is only twenty-four, is otherwise very healthy and because they caught it fairly (although not extraordinarily) early on, the doctors seem pretty hopeful. He began chemotherapy on the 29th and will be spending the month of January in the hospital undergoing continuous treatment.
The year as a whole was okay. Not great, not bad, but okay. There were some definitive low notes (see: last academic year's experiences). There were some incredibly lovely high notes (see: ENGLAND, where I met
the_oscar_cat and _peapod and blythely, all of whom I adore, and got to spend a month curled up in lazlet's lap -- <3!!).My immediate family, if not my extended one, and all my friends and even my cats are healthy, which is something I'm valuing rather highly just now.
I don't really know what I'm going to be doing this time next year, which is not a situation that I'm entirely comfortable with. I don't particularly like ambiguity. I'm more of a make plans and charge forth kind of person. But I will figure it out, one way or another. At the very least, I'll have finished my Master's degree, which is something.
I make just about the same resolutions every year, and this year is no exception. I will not be discouraged by the holiday season's excesses and give up entirely. I will continue to eat healthily and hopefully lose a little weight. But the healthy eating is the important part. I will rediscover my discipline regarding exercise, largely by reminding myself that exercise isn't a chore, but rather something that makes me feel good and that, on the whole, I enjoy. I will go to the gym a little more regularly, I will swim a little more often, and maybe I will even find the odd day here and there to go skiing, now that I've inherited my sister's old skis and so have decent equipment again.
And that is that.
