Archive for December, 2009

December 31st, 2009

So, What Did I Accomplish and Learn About Myself in 2009?

This year has been great and I learned so much about myself and what I can do if I set few goals and saw what happened. These are some of the highlights of my year.

  1. No internet for 2 weeks.
  2. Read a book in a day.
  3. Did a crazy cardio challenge for a whole week.
  4. Multiple times walking 29 flight of stairs (twice with 10lb ankle weights on each leg).
  5. Went to California and enjoyed myself immensely.
  6. Figured out my other passion: Photography!
  7. Read 5 books in a month.
  8. Did task/goals on my someday list.
  9. Set my countdown to leave Corporate America.
  10. I learn how to write better; also, my grammar improved so damn much.
  11. Start a novel.
  12. Wrote over 300,000 words.
  13. Take a trip for the sole purpose of seeing how fucked up a city truly is (Detroit).
  14. A 900-plus-mile road trip from Detroit to New York.
  15. Saw how a small business is striving during a shitty economy.
  16. Wrote for a full month in my novel (nearly 30k words of dedication).
  17. Bought a house.
  18. Proposed to my girlfriend!!!!! (She said yes).
  19. Finished writing my first novel. (Wrote over 108k words! It is a pile of shit right now, but I’m the shit for completing this crazy challenge).
  20. Wrote every single day of the year and will never stop doing so…

I also figured out many things about myself.

  1. I’m an impatient person.
  2. I work best with less goals.
  3. I think way too fucken much and wish I can turn it off.
  4. I go into loops of thought and don’t know how to stop thinking about what I don’t want to think about. (This one is weird, will explain once I figure out how to get out of my head).
  5. I am an extreme type of person. My fiancée notice this when I was doing my crazy challenges.
  6. I truly found myself. This is an on-going experience, but writing everyday gave me a chance to question everything about myself. In the beginning of the year, I wrote for 2 straight months of thoughts that were in my head. I was surprised by the information that was effecting the way I lived. I strongly recommend people to write for a couple of minutes a couple of days a week to have a clearer vision of what they want to do or struggling with.
  7. I like walking. It is great exercise and very therapeutic. Besides laughing at all of the fat people running on the trail I frequently walk, I’m still amazed how better it is on my joints and how the weight disappears. Since I’m so much in my head, the walking helps me to not think (well, as little as possible) and gives me the opportunity to calm my thought, provoking ass down.

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December 16th, 2009

A Good Day at the Tea Shop…

The smell and taste of Matcha green tea filled my body. I didn’t know a table size of tea at the local tea house was a damn kettle size. I played it off by continuously drinking one cup after another.

There were many people in the tea house, most of them were hippie-like, eccentric young adults doing something on their macs. My night started well, I was making plenty of head-way with my photography website. I was able to make it have the look and feel of a simple design. I just have to spend a couple more hours with it to get it to the level that is presentable.

There were plenty of people coming and going, many talking about boyfriends or guys who acted weird. Some other ladies just talked about whatever, I wasn’t really paying attention to their conversation—it might have been too boring or I was in the flow of improving my website.

I had roughly an hour before I was going to get kicked out of the tea house and my laptop battery only had 9% or about 15 minutes left before I was force to drink all of the tea in the kettle. So I saw an extension cord near a young Asian woman, with her pretty mac that was nicely decorated with an array of colors that I couldn’t make out the design of. I asked her if I could plug in my cord (just thinking about that statement makes me laugh with the sexual innuendo). My cord wasn’t long enough so I had to move to the table right next to her (see, there it goes again).

Instantly, there was chatter.

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December 8th, 2009

December: The Last Month of the Year

I actually wrote this post over a week ago. I need to be better about posting, I’ve gotten use to writing, saving and closing my computer to repeat the same task the next day. I now all I have been writing about lately is about my novel and how difficult it is and all. The next couple of post will be a change a pace–I’m not promising, though…

I’ve been busy lately. It is something I don’t want to explain right now, but life is moving and I’m also doing what I can with the amount of time I have for this year.

Last week felt tremendous, I was able to get rid of my weight set and felt energize because of doing so. I want to continue to get rid of stuff and declutter my apartment, which will in turn declutter my life.

Clueless on What to Write

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