Well, 2011 has come to a close with tomorrow being the last day. Looking back, I definately made some big strides and gained a ton of knowledge throughout the year.
I've been working hard on making progress with my career and things are going pretty well there.
I closed on my first house February 5th, and it's been quite the experience becomming a homeowner. I'm pretty proud to say I accomplished this at 25yrs old.
I tried some new things out in the garage and learned alot of ways NOT to do things before finally figuring out HOW to do them, haha. In the end, I value the experience and have caught some positive attention from theses efforts and may be able to turn a profit from what I've learning in the future.
I started offering design and consulting services via a Craigslist add after I bought the house. I didnt realize I did halfway decent on it, I pulled in about $2500 in sidework from it over the course of the year. Pretty respectable in my opinion.
I really kicked into high gear spending time in the gym, and I'm down to 195lbs from 235lbs in august of 2009. I also decided to start training for marathon running and completed the "Turkey Trot" 8k race in 49:50. I'm pretty proud of that and this definately helped with the body image I am trying to acheive.
I made a bunch of new friends this year through my hobbies(which I put MUCH more time into this year than any other year since highschool). I have had a TON of fun with the car scene, vintage motorcycle scene, and playing music.
I played my first open mic early in the year, and played probably a dozen overall. Haven't sang yet, just played guitar....but recently I really pushed myself to learn to sing while playing(who knows what my voice sounds like to someone else though!) and somewhat broke a barrier and can accomplish this now with abour 3 or 4 songs. I hope to polish them up and play alone at an open mic sometime in the next month or two.
I guess this brings me to the point where I set some goals for 2012. I won't be making a resolution, because everyone knows those are temporary.
I plan to continue with my gym regiment for sure. I no longer am concerned with weight....much more concerned with what I see in the mirror. I would say I've hit the halfway mark from where I was and where I want to be, so we'll see what I can do by summer.
I recently started putting together a cover band to get playing out for fun. We are only going to play songs by the bands "Taking Back Sunday" and "Brand New"....these bands are very similar....mostly because they are from the same town and the lead singers from both bands used to be best friends until one of them stole the other's g/f. Anyways, it's been fun learning all of their songs and practicing them. We hope to be playing out at venues come spring.
I plan to make an adventure out of riding my 1975 Honda motorcycle down to mid-ohio vintage motorcycle days in July, My friend Chris might join me for the ride. Skipping Interstates will make it a 10hr ride or so compared to a 5hr drive, so we will probably split the ride up over two days for fatigue purposes. I'm actually REALLY excited for this, but I really have to go over some things on the bike and make sure it can handle the trip.
I didn't spend much time this past year in the dating scene, I'd like to change that this coming year. I would say I met/went on dates with roughly 7-10 girls and not a single one of them was for more than 5 dates. I guess I'm just not in the mood to waste time, I know exactly what I want and I'm not gonna settle even momentarily for something else. Hopefully the search yeilds better results this year haha.
I've been living basically paycheck to paycheck because of the choices I made (such as buying the house), I've been waiting for a promotion that I've been promised for months, I'm hoping it's coming sooner than later....I'd really like to pay off my Credit Cards and my car so I can spend some money on the house renovating.
I didn't spend as much time on the dirtbike this past summer as I wanted to either, hoping to get out more on it this year. Same goes for golfing
I asked for a kayak for christmas, and low and behold I got it!!!! I'm really excited for this new hobby so hopefully I find time to get into that as well
I'd love to try skydiving (need to conquer the fear of heights)
I'd love to get out camping a few times, too.
Well, I guess that's it really. I've got high hopes and good feelings that 2012 has a lot to offer. Hope yours does too!
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