Along with a new year comes new goals, and I have no shortage of them. I've reached a point in my life I never wanted to see, and unwisely signed myself into a new home before I was ready. To make this work, I have to set some goals and actually follow through with them.
Short-term: By the end of January I need to cut down spending and get back into school. It'll be Gateway for a certificate in welding, but that's enough to bring in a little more money. I can take classes in the morning and keep working at night. I need to stop spending money on myself and only buy what I need. This means that any modifications to the car will have to wait until I have a better job. I won't go out as much, and I'll cook whenever possible. The weekly beer is gone. I don't think I'll make the Reel Big Fish concert this year.
Long-term: The goal of this is to be certified in welding and have a more lucrative job by the time my first rent check is due. It'll be hard and maybe impossible, but I have to do it. After I'm settled into the apartment, I'll continue my education. Gateway does degrees in welding, or I can move to another skilled trade, but I have to use 2009 to make the most of myself. My original graduation date from UC was June 2011. That's when I want to have my education done.
Unfortunately, I won't be able to afford all this and the insurance and payments on a motorcycle. I'll just have to push that back to when I can afford it.
I'm tired of languishing in self-doubt and utter stupidity. I'm tired of my past mistakes getting me down. I need to get off my ass and actually become independent. It's a new year and a new chance, so I think I'll try to get off my ass for once and go for it.
Other general goals:
-Eat better, which is made easier by cooking more.
-Exercise more. I don't need to lose weight, but I would like to build some muscle and endurance and I can work out in the basement while I do laundry.
-Read more, which I can do by simply reading an hour or so after work every night.
-Find a way to expose myself to new music. I no longer have XM, but I can find other sources.
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LastFM is a good place to start to find new music. Once you've inputted bands that you like, it'll play them on your radio station. When a band plays, similar bands pop up in a bar called "If you like..."
It's where I'm getting a lot of new bands I really like!
I tried Last.FM. I switched from RealPlayer to iTunes to accommodate it and found that all I was doing with Last.FM was logging the stuff I played from my own library on iTunes, so I got rid of it to free up memory. If possible, I'd find a way to easily reinstall satellite radio in the VW, but part of getting music from XM was my portable player, which gave me satellite radio all over campus. I'm not allowed a personal music player at work, so that aspect is gone. I might have to close iTunes for the time being and return to XM Online if I can get my old man to reactivate his subscription. I think it's free so long as you're paying for an offline player.
LastFM radio requires no installation of any kind of software, other than the obvious flash playing program that firefox comes with automatically.
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