For those of you who remember “More High Fives in ’95”, I can only ask if you can believe that was 10 years ago?” Anyhoo. I have been toying and tweaking some resolutions. I give them a few days to gel and so I haven’t really decided what I’m going with yet.
Let’s recap last year, resolution-wise. I had three.
1) Make one new friend a month. Invite them all to a party at the end of the year.
2) Spice up my life. I decided this while listening to the Spice Girls at a New Year’s party.
3) Stop listening to “Hey Ya!”.
Okay. I had to give up #3 before the New Year’s party was over last year, so we will focus on 1) and 2).
New friends. I made new friends in the ’04. I started off strong and met Mark through bookcult in January. I met Sam (who was then Sarah to me) around the same time but started hanging out with her later in the year. I was off to a great start!
But, then I stopped meeting people. I hired Shawn to replace Cash later in the year but he HAS to hang out with me because I’m his boss. So, that’s three. I decided to drop the party idea because as much as I like Shawn and Sam and Mark, I think a party with just the four of us would have been kind of weird.
Spicing up my life. Was this vague enough? I think so. For a while my life seemed to turn into someone else’s. It prompted Self-Help Susan to write me and ask what the heck was going on in my life. I painted a room pumpkin, I was going to drive-in movie theatres, I was hanging out at Chuck-E-Cheese, and taking a road trip with a girl I barely knew to pick up a Skee Ball machine.
Spicy indeed.
Then fall came and things started to slow down and then BAM! I had a new roommate and was hanging out with the freshly divorced Drama Jenny and we had the hurricane and it was pretty fun.
It all kind of went to hell around November 2 but we won’t dwell on that.
So, resolutions achieved for the most part.
2005 is going to be a retrospective year. I shall continue the spice but instead of pinning all my plans on these so-called “new people” that I am trying to meet, I am going to find some people from my past that I should (or shouldn’t) reconnect with. That’s what Project: Old School is all about. More as I iron out the details.
But, if you come across this blog and I used to hang out with you but don’t anymore, you totally need to leave a comment or call or email. You will also need to keep Saturday, November 19 open for the culmination of Project: Old School. Make your hotel and flight reservations now.
