These were my 2006 goals as created at the beginning of the year...
2006 "anticipations"
1. Continuing Education - never enough school for me, and Boeing will pay for it! muwahahaha.
I tried this for Winter and Spring 2006 quarter at UW while working full-time. Just one class each quarter. I also took the GRE over the summer and did fairly decent, especially on the math section. So I have the beginnings ready for an application for grad school, and was planning on taking another class this quarter and so on, but my job is taking way too much time out of my life that school would basically kill all the remainder of it. SIGH! I do want to keep doing it though.
Score: 6/10
2. Move out - not that I don't like living at home, but I just need to, well, move out!
I was going to move out with by friend, and that didn't happen and that's mainly because we ended up being cube mates at work. Funny how that goes. I then tried to look for single BR apartments and saw that they cost way too freakin' much and then went on to open a 1 year CD at BECU to save money for a down payment on a house or condo next Spring/Summer. I feel so grown-up, saving money and all.
Score: 1/10
3. Go international - as in... a vacation yo! Japan?
Dangit, I had to cancel my Western Europe escapade because of work-issues. The trip would have been for work, but I would have tacked on some extra personal time before and after my main business. Argh, it would have been a fun adventure. I still have a trip lined up to Germany however and at least one to Japan sometime, but not sure when those will happen and very unlikely by the end of this year.
Score: 0/10
4. Snowboard better!! - yea.
I dont think I ever made it to the slopes following the new year. I think I went twice in December but that was it for last season's winter sports for me. How sad and depressing. This year, I'll try to go more. I bought new pants too...
Score: 0/10
5. Girl or Girls
strike out. or struck out. Strike out looking, that's a better term for it. Or maybe it's just me sitting on the pine waiting for nothing.
Score: 0/10
6. Play more tennis - cause i didn't get to play alot this year. Adria? Ted? Dean? where you at?
Well for a time I did play on quite an occasion with Adria in the Spring. Then summer went around, and we had a softball league together and my work load increased so never did do much more tennis. I think I played once with Albert and it was OK. I also played with Adam Soh a couple times like the good ol' days and recently played twice with John.
Score: 6/10
7. Meet more friends and people - i need more friends cause alot of my really good ones are moving away, Scott especially...
Reading this makes me feel melancholy and nearly infinite sadness. As I mentioned many times on previous occasions, I've seen many of my closest friends move on and move out. Scott being the first and foremost, but also my good friends Neil and Melissa to Denver and Chicago, respectively. Recently I saw two friends i hangout with leave for the bay area, Meaghan and Damon, and then two others moved down there over the past year as well -- Jay and Martha. I've also seen others leave too... sigh.
I havent done a spectacular job meeting new friends. I guess I have but I think the one happy note is that I believe I have soldified or at least, broken new ground with some people from the past that I knew but did not know so well and wish I knew better then because they are great and wonderful people who are alot like me. I've also been able to go to every Seahawk game so far because of this awesome group of individuals, and this I'm talking about Griffin, Prashant, Sean, Dan, Dylin, Challie, etc. etc. and I can thank Adria for having such cool friends and re-introducing me to them. Granted, I have met all of them many years ago but never did hang out with them that often or at all.
Score: 5/10
8. oh yea, Save Money!! - that'll be my goal for every year until i can actually do it.
Opening up a BECU account was step one. Then opening a 1 year CD was step 2. I've also hurt my savings by buying a new car and dropping a big down payment on it, but thats sort of a savings in its own way via Interest payments. Anyway, I think I'm doing satisfactorily, though I could be doing alot better job if I didnt eat out every lunch day and drank less coffee, and spent less money on going out and buying random toys.
Score: 7/10
9. be more outgoing, assertive, and open - i'm told i'm way too outgoing. i think not.
Getting there, but also took a step back I guess? I'm not the communications director that I used to be. I also am lazier these days about trying to go out and do things. Work has a little bit to do with it. Running myself into a wall also does too.
Score: 3/10
10. be more serious at times, and more sensitive perhaps? -- cause although i care alot about things, i don't show it externally... if that makes sense?
I think I'm terrible at this. I'm downright sarcastic all the time. People dont change too easily and I can try to work on it but I doubt it'll ever be to a level I'd be 100% happy with, but I should just accept it and move on?
Score: 1/10
11. i need to be more assertive. - repeat.
I'll take this in a slightly different context, and I think I meant it this way when I wrote it originally. And yes, I would call this a total outright failure too. I'm too shy and scared of failure to really say that this will ever be improved. I need to work on that... i think my last goal goes hand in hand with this.
Score: 1/10
12. more confident in myself. i'm confident in others, but not myself, almost ever.
Getting better, but requires much work.
Score: 3/10
TOTAL: 33/120
That's a little over 25%. Great. I got 2 months to do 75% of my 2006 goals. Lets get moving.
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