2011

2010 shall end in a few days. And so, it is time for the standard "New Years Resolution" post. I figured it would be slightly more interesting than the standard "Best of 2010" lists (although I will throw this out there: the best film of 2010 was Scott Pilgrim vs The World, hands down).

Although, I don't know how much of this will be resolution. Rather, it is more like a list of things I would like to happen, or goals I would like to work towards. This is going to be a year of change, as I will be finished university as of April, and once again thrust into the working world.

The first goal can be best summed up with the words "grow up". If you know me in "the real world" I have had various conversations with people about how I do not feel like a "grown up". This is something that continually comes up in my list of insecurities. I often have minor freak outs regarding this.

I am 26 years old. I live in the same house, same room even, that I have lived in since I was 2. I am effectively unemployed, and I still go to school.

I have struggled with this. At times, I feel a distinct lack of progress in my life. I look at peoples' Facebook pages, and they are married, have houses, have fantastic jobs, have children, at my age or younger. It's not so much that I want those particular things right this second, but their lives have changed since last we saw each other. I feel stuck.

On the other hand, I try and remind myself how blessed I am. I have a wonderful family, including a mother who allows me to live at home, rent free, while I figure my life out. She's awesome. I can stay here as long as I want, and save money for when I can actually leave the nest.

I have an awesome boyfriend, with whom I can make a future with. He's also pretty awesome. I have fantastic, lifelong friendships with an amazing group of people.

But back to the resolution - grow up. I guess that goal is to make any sort of progress. This will most likely involve getting a job (which would be FANTASTIC), save any amount of money, or even just gathering materials for when I move out (I've talked with Mom about how I'm hoping to focus on buying things I can use, like vacuums or plates, rather than more books and DVDs and stuff). Any sort of progress will be super.

That's the big goal, I suppose. I have a few others, some of which are better than others. For instance, I want to be more charitable from now on (in thinking about this, it might contradict my saving money goal - hmm) as I feel that I don't really contribute anything terribly beneficial to society, other than the extremely lazy "follow this person on twitter and they'll donate money to charity" type things (speaking of which, follow @abolishcancer and they'll donate $1 to a variety of cancer charities).

This would be the "better" goal, as my other goal is to finish a lot of the video games I have half-played in my library. And upgrade to Windows 7. Some goals are sillier than others.

These are my plans for 2011. How about you?