Out with the Old…In with the New
Well, that’s it. It’s over. *waves to 2007* Bye bye ya bastard, don’t let the door hit ya in the ass on the way out. Hello 2008. You better treat me a damn sight better than the last one did. LOL.
Okay now that that’s out of my system… 
So that’s it everyone. Another year has come and gone and having spent a great deal of time looking back over the past 12 months, I honestly can say I’m not going to miss this one too terribly much. Not much happened for me at all this year. Same crappy job…still up to my former hairline in debt and no closer to being a writer than I was in 1997. Still, my kids are healthy, my son especially is developing well and even started walking this year finally. And me, well the only thing I think I really accomplished the last 12 months was to get off my lazy duff, get in the gym and start taking a much greater interest in my health. And at least there I can say I’ve accomplished something. I’m probably in better shape and look better physically than I have since my early 20s.
The last 12 months have been quite the eye opener for me in terms of where I’m at in my life, what I need to fix and where I want to be a year from now.
That brings us to the ol’ New Year’s cliche….resolutions. What is it that I want out of the next 12 months. I’ve spent the last few days thinking long and hard about this one so in no particular order this is what I want to see happen for myself through the course of 2008:
1) Quit smoking: quick, to the point, no further explanation required.
2) Get the hell out of this shit job I’ve been trapped in for the past 3 years. I can’t stand being a cog in a thankless occupation like call center work anymore. It’s sucking the life out of me, although, has been a hell of a motivator to get to the gym as often as possible to vent my spleen on the weight decks. Not sure what I want to be doing exactly, just know I need to be making more money than I am and would like something where I have to spend as little time on telephones as humanly possible.
3) Get started on getting certified as a personal trainer. I really enjoy doing what I’m doing with my own body and am learning heaps on my own. I’d love to share that with others, especially the older set and help people keep the ol’ Reaper at bay those few extra years. Found a place online where I can get a Canadian accreditation, just need to wait till tax time so I can order the Fundamental’s course and get started.
4) Get my thumb out of my butt and get back to writing. I miss it. Would very much like to complete a novel draft that I’ve been making notes for over the last couple of years.
5) Find a way to take care of this forever annoying skin problem I have (acne on my back) and see if there’s anyway I can reduce the look of the scars I have so that I can start really showing off the work I’m doing to myself without having to airbrush my pics or cover myself in women’s foundation.
6) Complete the first stage in my physical transformation. I’d like to get my body fat down to between 8-10% and add another 10lbs of lean muscle mass, and look and feel better physically than I have in my entire life. I’m almost 40 now, and I want to be noticed and appreciated by ladies of all ages. Superficial, perhaps, but why work so hard if no one notices right 
Basically, by the summer I very much want to look like this…..
So that’s it. Those are my big aspirations for 2008. Now. to, see how many of these I manage to pull off.
Happy New Year everyone. Enjoy the change over, root for Canada and Australia in Bejing this year and let’s hope to hell that this whole middle east fiasco is finally over this year so that all those men and women literally killing themselves to look out for us all finally get to come home in time for next Christmas.
I’m outta here folks. Got a bottle of shiraz breathing in the next room. Love yas all.
*hugs*
– Royce / Skippy :)
