Happy New Years you primitive screw heads!
Last year, wow, 2009, I had a nice list of resolutions, let’s take a look and discuss why I failed the various ones shall we?
1. "Building my Kids a playhouse" Sorry guys, didn’t happen. Doesn’t mean I don’t love you, just means I don’t love that much.
2. "Build a bigger/better/awesomer chicken yard." F U Birds. There’s time for this in the spring. Until then, enjoy the yard you have, or I’ll cut your heads off and cook you.
3. "My children’s rooms need updated windows. Something modern, flashy and energy efficient." This is on "the list" still, all my windows need replaced, unfortunately I don’t have huge assets to do it. Probably start with the kids’ though. I did however, move to a more productive bird. We got Buff Orpington’s and Rhode Island Reds this year. Got them too late in the season to get many eggs, so we’ll see how this spring goes for em. Also got a pair of ducks!
4. "Maintain a garden." Wife did it, I built the boxes, see here! We’re going to expand it this year and maybe put the corn somewhere else, so we can fumigate it and not nuke all the bugs out of our garden (damn corn worms!)
5. "Sell off some guns from the gun cabinet." *snicker*
6. "I also need to teach my son to shoot and get my daughter to shoot more." I did take the sprogs out to shoot a little this summer. Let them run wild with the pellet gun while we were fishing (no one shot their eye out). Nothing serious though, ammo is starting to settle in prices (saw .223 for 5$ a box of 20 the other day!)
7. "Write more. I’ve sort of wandered from my path on this." Just didn’t happen. Never time to sit somewhere quiet and pen. Contemplating a netbook so I’m not trapped at the PC, but who knows.
So 2009 was a year. Lots of things happened we didn’t plan on. The wife and I went to blogher with my wife, very awesome. Got to see me a big damned city (Chicago), didn’t take as many photos as I wanted. I was worried too much about my 10d to take it. Not so much now. Hopefully the wife and I will sneak off to New Orleans (so much nicer than the old one). Anyway, I’ve started using my camera more and hope to start adding more of my own pics up here.
Last year was also a banner year for my household, my darling wife homeschooled BOTH our brats, (7-11 years old), which is a big deal for us. Right as school started (we were going to send both kids to the local school) the teachers put up a fuss over their Union contract and sent a letter out asking for support with thinly veiled hints about going on strike and delaying the start of school. So with a big stfu we thought we’d do it on our own, or sort of, we open enrolled the children in the next district over and got started in a homeschooling program with another school. The kids go into this school for two days a week and learn science, language arts, PE and Art. This way they get the benefits of an education without all the extra fluff. So far it’s been great and we might continue this out until they graduate and get shoved off to college (when we’ll move and not tell them). My Wife keeps a blog here, where she talks about homeschooling, it’s a secular website, in the sense that it’s free from religions over tones (feel free to use the ideas she’s gathered and add you own!)
I took up the guitar last year, and then put it down. I enjoyed the hell out of it, and still do, but I can’t afford the lessons and some of the other things I do in my life (heroine: she’s an expensive mistress and the flying jet is EXPENSIVE to maintain ). I did join a gym and I lost about 30 pounds this year, I’m hoping to lose a bunch more, I’m trying to get back down to my original weight.
Alright I’m done. My wife did a remarkable thing this year, she cleared out an entire room that had been used as a catchall when we moved into this wreck. It was storage…like 300 square feet of it and our second living room. While it still looks like hell (green concrete floor) it’s clean and livable and will be getting some attention soon. For now it’s going to be like that open hole in the sliding puzzle, and we’re going to use that room to empty another into so we can start to un-hood-ify this house. (wood paneling and indoor outdoor carpet have got to go).
There’s been a lot of accomplishments this year despite me missing the mark on most of my resolutions, I feel I’ve accomplished an adequate amount of things this year.
Your facebook updater didn’t bring me here, it just showed me the entire post on there.
You give me way too much credit.
That, or you have two wives.
I wanna be the hot funny one!
The chicken yard is on my priority list of projects for this year. We’ll make it happen
This cracked me up inspired me to actually complete my only stated goal for 2010:
Set some goals.