It's always fun at the turn of the New Year to decide what it is that I would like to better about myself. Someday, my resolution will involve doing that all year round, but that's not this year. Instead I have three goals.
- To drive more often. By default, whenever we go somewhere in the car, John drives. I want to make a concerted effort to drive at least half the time.
- To conserve water while washing dishes. I'm very bad at leaving the water running and could greatly reduce my water usage if I turned the water off while scrubbing.
- To take one or more hobbies deeper. I'm still deciding on developing some concrete goals for this. This stems from the fact that I seem to make a hobby of collecting hobbies. Here are all the things I have tried at various times in my life:
- Languages (in chronological order): Latin, Italian, Spanish, French.
- Sports: cycling, triathlons, running, soccer, racquetball, tennis, volleyball, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, downhill skiing, golf, rollerblading, ultimate frisbee,
- Outdoor activities: camping, backpacking, sailing, white water kayaking, sea kayaking, sculling
- Musical instruments: guitar, voice (ok..this consists entirely of one high school musical).
- Crafts: cheesemaking, food canning, cross-stitch, knitting, jewelry making, photography, wheel pottery, glass etching, creative writing
- Other: motorcycle riding
I think the hobbies I want to focus on are French and photography. I'm still deciding what the exact goal will be for improving my French this year, but I think after I defend, I would like to join a conversational group and focus on the spoken aspects of the language. For photography, I am picking up developing black and white film again and would like to enter a photograph in a competition. A New England state fair of some kind would be ideal. Below are a few pictures from my first roll of self-developed film in about 13 years!
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