The New Year
Jan. 1st, 2008 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fleaI am looking ahead to what may be a year of great changes - the biggest changes since 2003 (which brought Casper and the whole new world of Life as Parent.)
I'm kind of afraid to have any expectations for what those changes may be. The past couple of years our Christmas letter (generally written by mr. flea with a little collaboration from me) has suggested mr. flea will finish his dissertation, get a job, and move us somewhere. I expected this in summer 2006; I expected this in summer 2007; I even sort of expected it in December 2007. If it's going to happen at all, it's got to happen in 2008, and if it's not going to happen, well, something's got to happen. It's hardly surprising I've pretty much given up trying to have expectations in this vein.
Here are some hopes I have, and I hope they are vague enough that I can roll with whatever punches come along.
1. End 2008 at least halfway to my library science degree.
2. Have a garden of some kind. Even if it has to be a fictional Livejournal garden.
3. Make it to Woods Hole, I hope this time with mr. flea coming too.
4. End the year in a financial position where I can start contributing to retirement funds again.
Here are some unanswered questions that will need to be addressed this year:
1. Where will we live?
2. Will we buy a house?
3. Who will work, and doing what?
4. Will we have a third child? (I'll be 36 in September, and Dillo will be 2 in July. This won't be a conversation that HAS to be had this year, but it's pretty likely to come up by the end of the year.)
5. What do we really want in our lives, and how will we get there?
I'm kind of afraid to have any expectations for what those changes may be. The past couple of years our Christmas letter (generally written by mr. flea with a little collaboration from me) has suggested mr. flea will finish his dissertation, get a job, and move us somewhere. I expected this in summer 2006; I expected this in summer 2007; I even sort of expected it in December 2007. If it's going to happen at all, it's got to happen in 2008, and if it's not going to happen, well, something's got to happen. It's hardly surprising I've pretty much given up trying to have expectations in this vein.
Here are some hopes I have, and I hope they are vague enough that I can roll with whatever punches come along.
1. End 2008 at least halfway to my library science degree.
2. Have a garden of some kind. Even if it has to be a fictional Livejournal garden.
3. Make it to Woods Hole, I hope this time with mr. flea coming too.
4. End the year in a financial position where I can start contributing to retirement funds again.
Here are some unanswered questions that will need to be addressed this year:
1. Where will we live?
2. Will we buy a house?
3. Who will work, and doing what?
4. Will we have a third child? (I'll be 36 in September, and Dillo will be 2 in July. This won't be a conversation that HAS to be had this year, but it's pretty likely to come up by the end of the year.)
5. What do we really want in our lives, and how will we get there?
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Date: 2008-01-01 09:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-02 07:24 am (UTC)1. Would we have a baby that year? (yes)
2. Would I get to do the Tom Waits book? (yes)
3. Would my job survive the year? (no)
As happens with Years of Big Change, 2007 also was fairly tumultuous because the repercussions of 2006 were so big.
So I'm hoping you guys stick the landing on 2008 and the tumult part quickly turns into some flavor of productive and contentment making stability.