Well, to be more precise, he went trotting along with me and Dad while we were skiing at Adams Farm. I wish I had a picture, but the camera waited until we were out there to tell me that it wants new batteries. You will just have to imagine a happy dog in the snow. It would have done your hearts good to see him out there bounding along, tail waving, ears alert, eyes eager, happiness in every line and every movement of his body. He didn't get tired, he didn't get out of breath, and nothing seemed to hurt. My New Year's Resolution is to take him out to ski or hike every single chance I get.
And what are your New Year's Resolutions? The comment section is the place to post them.
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I have beaucoup de resolutions. I want to take more time with everything I do, instead of rusing throught everything. Haste makes waste!!
I also want to stop multitasking so much. Its gotten to the point where I can't do just one thing at a time. Homework and TV, reading books and talking to people, etc. All of my activities are augmented with another, either to make it more or less leisurely. As a result, I'm actually getting less done.
And Weight Watchers too.
Good ones, Laura. Your Uncle Rob is an expert of sorts on managing time and he ways multi-tasking is a no-no. One thing I'd add is to enjoy your life. Everything is easier if you can do that.
Panda went for a ski yesterday, too. It was cold and once we got behind the barn, the wind kicked in. I was underdressed and felt blasted by the cold. Panda was unfazed. He ran and bounced and leaped. Happy dog.
My resolution is to enlarge my carbon footprint to the size of that of a small country. Or about the size of Al Gore's and John Edwards's.
You'll need a private jet.
Hobbes' resolution is to get his teeth brushed on a daily basis.
Mom I really like your description of a happy dog in the snow. It's funny because it was probably about the same time that you were walking Panda, that I was in Earlville with Mike walking his dog over behind the old school. "Happiness in every line and every movement of his body" is the best way to put it. It is so much better to see Panda outside like that than to have him inside pawing at you and whining at you all the time. Sorry if that sounds like a complaint, it wasn't supposed to.
My New Year's resolution is to figure out what to do with my life. I know the thing that has made me happier than anything else, and that has been building vehicles and robots for OM. Although the end product wasn't always satisfying, the work itself was. And the times when the end product was satisfying (the robot my freshman year, the vehicle and castle my senior year) gave me more happiness than anything else. It's funny but I guess it makes sense that I was a lot more satisfied driving the finished frame of the vehicle around the hallway in January of my senior year, than I was when we actually won at States. True happiness can't come through recognition received from others, but only from yourself. So how do I find that same sense of achievement in life? I certainly have a long list of things that I've considered before but now don't want to do. Maybe I'll be a farmer....
Luke, I've found so far that you can't find that kind of satisfaction with work that other people give you. Something a boss or manager drops on your desk isn't going to give you the same contentment as an OM project that you choose and design yourself. That may sound a bit Marxist, a bit "alienation of labor", but that kind of satisfaction can't be derived from other people's projects. Not that it can't be fun or satisfying to have that kind of job, but the OMish satisfaction would be hard to get from it.
I will be home this weekend and I hope I can take Panda for a happy dog walk.
Luke, please don't bother trying to figure out what you want to do the rest of your life. It's a long time and you will change. Instead, figure out the things to do in the short term that will position you to be adaptable and flexible when your circumstances change.
I think you are on the right path, and Laura's comments on the subject are perspicacious. But I think a degree and military duty will land you in a place where you can go and do whatever you like.
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Let's talk about it later, off-blog.
My NYRs, for those of you who care, are the same as they have been every year as long as I can remember:
Make a place for everything and put it there. Get organised. Bake bread.
Laura I don't think that sounds Marxist at all. It sounds individualist and selfish. I like it.
I don't know Laura. I think you can have a person drop something on your desk and it can still be OMish. Not if you know exactly what to do with it already, but if you're told to figure out how to do something rather than just to do something.
I guess I say this because at the publishing agency, someone would drop a book on my desk and say "figure out how to best pitch this to publishers." It was very OM-y, writing wacky pitch letters that grabbed attention without being over the top and whatnot. I think it depends a lot on the job.
Luke- I don't have anything past the next five months of my life planned, and I think that's okay. Things will come up, and you'll do them, and you'll figure it out, maybe in a couple years, maybe when you're 50. And that's fine.
Lucy-I agree, but I still think I'd rather be writing the book.
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