I've never been much for resolutions, but I've always been kinda partial to goals. None of these will be especially interesting to anyone, but I'd kind of like to have them here just the same so I can update them and use 'em to kick my own ass as the year progresses. -smiling-

Goals for 2008
- Run/Walk 200 miles
Completed as of 4/08: 42.5/200
- Climb 20,000 stairs (counting only ups)
Completed as of 4/08: 3800/20000
- Finish the 100 books project I started mid-2007
- Stay in three cities I've never been to before
- Take Sara on another trip
- Chicago in November
- Write at least two original pieces
- Try to find at least three new charities I'm not already involved in
- Resign seat on ZBA
- Give yoga or Pilates a concentrated effort
- Theory of a Deadman - Live!
- Three Days Grace, Breaking Benjamin & Seether in February
- Get my ass back in class
- "365 Days In My Year"

More to come...

So I decided around my birthday I was going to try and squeeze one-hundred books into the next year. It's been a long time since I've really concentrated my efforts on reading, so I'm excited about this.

I'm going to keep track of all the books I read, along with a quick and dirty rating system (five stars a must read, one star no way), so if you're interested, you might keep checking back!

( Book List & Review )

I used to approach my Livejournal entries like sermons; writing as if I had some wisdom to share, passing on my insights about life and love. It’s been a long time since I've looked at my journal like that. I look at it like an exercise in ingenuity; if I'm not writing in a fandom (which I do far more than I should, I admit), or whipping something up in Photoshop, I'm not really doing much else here.

The impressions I've left here in this journal are strange when I look back on them. They don't reflect the "old" me, or even the "new" me. I feel as though I'm representing myself as this wholly superficial person with the small skimming glances of my life that I provide. My intention for starting this journal was to be more real to who I am now than I have been with any other incarnation before it.

You know what they say about intentions, though. And part of me is sad because as much as I want people, the new people who don't know any other "version" of me, to understand the deeper parts of me - my love for humanity (despite my cutting rejoinders), the effort I've extended to finding some greater path, all of the hours I've devoted to trying to make this world a slightly better place - I just don't feel like I have the right kind of energy to expend anymore.

We grow up, we change, the road is always different, right? I've been touting that line for years now. I'll keep doing what I'm doing until I don't anymore. -smiling softly- Until I change back or I draw away completely. This is not melancholy you see, it's just a greater wish that what I have here these days was a glimmer of the light that used to shine within me. In those days when I was passing out love and knowledge by the bucket-full. That was a me to know. This quieter version... while still enjoyable (see, Narcissus is never far behind -smirking-), is just... so much different. Less digital, less prophetic. Less inclined to twirl ‘round and ‘round in the spotlight.

Just try to remember what I leave here is less than half of me these days. I’m far more than what I say or show. I’m just absorbing myself in a mellow calm that says so little… and, for now, that's enough.

Most of you know that I'm not a big fan of the meme, but if I could ever possibly start a movement, a movement that could be close enough to a meme as to support the name, then this would be it. In the spirit of getting to know yourself better, and in order to spread positivity, something so lacking these days, I give you: The Love List. I want you ALL to do this. I want you to pimp the idea to your friends. I want to see this become the next LJ trend! So help me out, hmm? -smiling- Feel free to point them back here, for the directions as follows:

This is not meant to be a 'trite' list. It's not meant to be a substitute for your favorite movies or books or fandoms. It can combine all of those things, if you truly -love- them, but the list is meant to be created with substance. It should involve not only the things that you love now, but the things you've loved since childhood, the things that have endeared themselves to you throughout your life. Things that provide structure for who you are. Try to make them as personal and relevant as possible. Really, this is the only rule.

( The Love List )

Keep adding as you find more!