This Year

I needed something to mellow me out today. Work and home were causing aggravation. And despite popular belief something or someone can CAUSE aggravation. They can change your mood; the part of the equation that you control is whether or not to leave these situations. So I left. I went home and put on some Counting Crows music. Calmed myself right down.

This year has flown by. It was kind of a weird year. I spent a month and a half unemployed, spent three months as a manager at one store and being in an assistant in an another, which had me working some crazy 60 and 70 hour weeks. It all lead me back to where I started, pretty much. I seem to branch out for a minute which enables me to inch out in the grand picture. I got myself into some debt too, which is weird. I have never done that. But school, car problems, and such hurt me. I tried to re-connect with some old friends but that hardly got off jump street before crashing into the ether of the priors failures of them.

My novel continues to be a long process that I have not been dedicated to enough. I plan on becoming so though. I have a routine mapped out for next year. Things in it: writing, gym, learning Italian, reading Bio’s of all the presidents, prepping a short film. I am looking forward to it all. 2009 sounds way too old. I am stuck in 1999. But there we are. Onward and upward.

~ by Andrew Wooster on December 22, 2008.