Here We Go Again, For the First Time

I begin this blog and move more formally into the cyberworld (is that even the right term?  I am so out of touch.) as this new decade is just beginning.  My friend commented that it is rather fitting that I start out so close to the New Year, and I find myself agreeing.  The longer I've been away from school and its off-cycle "year" (late August to early June), the more I find myself liking the true calendar year (although if pressed to describe exactly why, I would find it difficult to give specifics).

 
 

In step with that mindset and having read Noodles and Beef's New Year's-related post, I aim to replicate his chronological assessment of the prior year with respect to major events, rated as awesome, indifferent, or lame.  I don't have his skillz when it comes to formatting, but I'm going to take a stab at something semi-effective using Word and Excel 2007 and hope that it translates when I publish:

	Awesome	Indifferent	Lame
January			Auntie Lee died (didn't know her that well, especially toward the end, but affected my Mother quite a bit and it was a shitty time of year to boot)
February	First kiss (ever!), First sexual experience with a man, Came out to my Dad		First sexual experience was a bust (can you say erectile dysfunction?!)
March		Promoted to "grade level 18" at work (good because more money, bad because they could now put people under me!)
April	Started Accutane therapy		Dad died =(
May			Second sexual experience was a bust
June			Discovered rather sizable pimple on my ass (date is approximate, may have been there longer; started injections)
July			Third sexual experience was a bust (was starting to get annoying at this point)
August			Had terrible abdominal pains (first time I ever had to leave work sick; never found out what it was)
September	First lunch with FREd*
October		One-year anniversary of first lunch with Papí*
November	Had FREd* over to my house "to play video games", Finished Accutane therapy		Ass pimple remains after several injections (switch to cream)
December	First sexual experience with FREd*		Ass pimple continues to resist (switch to oral medication to no avail), Sexual experience with FREd* is a bust as well (I'm starting to get scared here), First trip to ER courtesy of abdominal pains similar to those from August (still don't know what they are)

*Aliases used to protect the Innocent

 

I may be forgetting something here or there (may edit later), but that notwithstanding, as you can see, there weren't that many major events to account for, which I believe says something (duh!). I find myself waffling back and forth between wanting that to change, and then hesitating, realizing how far out of my comfort zone I would have to go to do so. What gets me (and perhaps this is a serious wake-up call), is that Noodles and Beef is *only* 22 and has done/accomplished so much, while I am well into my 29th year and foundering upon rocks of mostly (OK, let's be honest, almost entirely) my own making. Unfortunately, work for me is über busy in January and February, so I've essentially written off those two months already, which is, in my opinion, a realistic psychological defensive move; however, I also realize how it could serve as a self-fulfilling prophecy. Hopefully my outlook will change if I can get a better handle on work from the get-go and not let distractions soak up precious Time. I've already decided to make myself unavailable on IM at work. Maybe that will be the first step of many away from Temptation...

 

P.S. I got so tired all of a sudden as I started proofing this. I *so* do not want to go back to work tomorrow. This holiday break was so incredibly defective. >:o( I may have to elaborate on that in the near future to get it out of my system and put it into some kind of context. =\ I hope it's not an omen for the rest of this year (or God forbid this decade)!