Year End
Friday December 30, 2005
(From LJ) It is that time of the mundane year when our thoughts turn to reviewing the past year and planning or hoping for the new year. What I notice as I have gotten older is that one year is often pretty much like the next. This last year I had days when I was miserable and days when I was happy. I continued meditating pretty regularly but have been struggling with keeping up an exercise routine. The hormone replacement therapy didn't solve all my emotional problems (drat!) and I am probably going to see if I can go to the next dosage level. It did however, help me gain 5 pounds in the last 4 months, something I am not thrilled about. New Year's resolutions don't seem to work well for me so I won't be pledging to lose weight but I do intend to make a greater effort to eat a better diet and try to keep up with my exercises more religiously.
Projects got started and not completed, such as, making the living room drapes, one set of the 5 got made and hung but I haven't even started on the next one so that is a project that I hope to complete in 2006. My meditation/ritual/guest room in the barn is not really progressing as it still depends on my children dealing with their boxes, something that is not happening even at a snail's pace, though I still have hopes of moving it forward even if I have to dump out a box and photograph the contents to send to them, and separate out what they decide they want from what they don't want all myself. We have begun entering all of our books into an online database called Library Thing. I think it is pretty cool. Tom already entered one set of book shelves. I have done two out of the 7 shelves of another bookshelf and plan on getting it done before I fly back out to CA.
Faol and I started out the year with serious relationship problems and have ended the year in much better shape. While I realize we have some issues that are probably going to be ongoing I have hope that we have come to understand each other a little better and to make allowances, compromises, etc. He still has another couple of years before he retires, which will change our situation again when it happens. Other relationships were ok at the start of the year and are rocky now (not mine and Tom's though:)
I have been marginally more social at this end of my trip cycle, having a little time for my other lovers, actually making it to a WIpoly meeting, hosting a "nest" ritual, attending a couple of others, hosting Vivre Draco and his girlfriend for Christmas weekend, and tonight we are going to a farewell party for friends. In CA, we usually attend COPAD meetings, occasionally Alex' parties, and often get together for dinner with a friend or two each trip. We actually made it to a museum, and to Harbin Hot Springs this year as well, and I am looking forward to attending Pantheacon in February.
So this wasn't the worst of years or the best of years. But it was my life
and precious to
me.
Copyright © 2005 Kyril Oakwind