Happy Gnu Year!

I’m not a huge fan of most New Year’s celebrations. I don’t particularly like staying up late (unless there is something worth staying up for), getting drunk or being around drunken people. It seems to me to be a great recipe for an absolutely awful start of the New Year. Throw in a dark and stormy night, drunks roaming the mountain highways, and a dearth of friends here in Penn Valley and it becomes even less appealing.

I do, however, like the idea of starting fresh and making changes. Like I have trouble making changes and need the pretense of January 1 to get me to shake things up! Seriously though, I am looking forward to 2006 and what it might bring. I feel a bit as though the changes of the last six or seven months have been about breaking away from old, frustrating, unhappy-making circumstances or patterns. I’ve had a little bit of time to tie off loose ends, exfoliate the old spirit and get in a better frame of mind so now I’m ready to make new things happen.

New things such as a new job, for instance. I’m still not sure exactly what, but have several ideas that are actually fairly concrete. I’m also going to be better about making friends. I often come across as friendly and outgoing and am even ridiculed when I explain my shy streak, but a shy streak I do have. I am resolved, however, to be more outgoing about making friends here, even though I’m only here for a few months. I’m also going to make the normal resolutions such as “do yoga at least 5 mornings a week,” “eat healthier” and so on, but those are rather boring resolutions.