Coming to a Close

The year is coming to a close, and I’m feeling like a failure.

I promised to write and write often. I haven’t. (Obviously.) This is mostly because life has been so crazy and so stressful that I’d sound more miserable than I actually am. (I am forever the optimist.)


I had several other goals for 2007. Let’s review the 2006 resolutions:

• Keep a regular blog. (Again.)
• Get something in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today OR the Washington Post.
• Volunteer. And do something good for humanity.
• Write the first draft of my first book.
• Take a photography class.
• Learn French. Seriously.
• Visit some place totally new (in addition to France).
• Meet a boy... that I will actually date.
• Go to the gym (at least more than I currently do — which is once every six months… or so).
• Cut my credit card debt in half.

I reviewed my status in June:

Those that I had failed:

• Take a photography class.
• Learn French. Seriously.
• Cut my credit card debt in half.
• Visit some place totally new (in addition to France).
• Write the first draft of my first book.
• Volunteer. And do something good for humanity.
• Go to the gym (at least more than I currently do — which is once every six months… or so).

Those that still had potential:

• Get something in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and/or The Washington Post.
• Meet a boy... that I will actually date.
• Keep a regular blog. Again.

None had been fulfilled.

So where do I stand today?

• Keep a regular blog. (Again.) — I wrote more this year than in 2006. I just can’t promise that it was all interesting or any good.
• Get something in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today OR the Washington Post. — Pitching all four at the moment. Outlook not so good.
• Volunteer. And do something good for humanity. — After several evening with the BPLF, and a few meetings with a refugee from Somalia, I can say I did something. But my best volunteer work came through Strong Women, Strong Girls, and 2008 will mean more of that.
• Write the first draft of my first book. — You need time to read books, forget write them.
• Take a photography class. — Failed.
• Learn French. Seriously. — Regressed.
• Visit some place totally new (in addition to France). — Didn’t even make it France.
• Meet a boy... that I will actually date. — Met many, dated several, liked none.
• Go to the gym (at least more than I currently do — which is once every six months… or so). — Had my ups & downs.
• Cut my credit card debt in half. — Back down to where it was in Dec. 2006.

Will I accomplish any of these things in the next four days? Probably not. So I suppose these resolutions will carry through to next year, too.