Uberlist, 2007

The year is nearly a week old and we’re still frozen beneath the weight of a storm that dumped about 30 inches on us.

Our roof has protested, and the sound of water dripping in the dining room pervades the entire house. It feels like Chinese water torture but we try to remember that we did always want a fountain.

As is tradition, I have been thinking about what 2007 will hold for us. 2006 pretty much sucked so we’re hoping for better. I resist, however, making resolutions. Perhaps it’s because they’re so cliche or perhaps it’s because I never keep them anyway so why not save myself the personal disappointment. But then I read about the idea of an Uberlist at Mama Says Om: http://www.mamasaysom.com/

And, of course, I couldn’t resist.

Here, then, is mine, though perhaps not as uber as it could be. I anticipate many interruptions from his grumpiness, Sir Gray-Gray, who has been positively fractious today due to cabin fever.

Without further ado:

1. I will assess my career goals and figure out how to fit in the following: full-time work at Desert Academy as assistant to admissions and the business office (also, international student point person, standardized testing coordinator, and “Desert Wear” store operator); photography for various clients and my own self; writing (since I’m in a writing group again, and thus should really be writing stuff to share); my aspirations toward jewelry making that distract me greatly, particularly while driving home from work; finishing my BA someday before I die. Or turn 40.

2. I will make sure I get all the paperwork done so that Soren can start 7th grade at Desert in the fall. I already shudder to think of the countless hours this will take.

3. Well, I mentioned writing but would like to expound on that. I would like to actually make headway on my story. That I cannot discuss further, at least until I make some headway on it.

4. Learn to love cooking (I consider this goal to be highly unattainable).

5. Learn Spanish beyond my poquito grasp of various ways to tell people off.

6. Take horseback riding lessons to make the whole f’ing saddle debacle over Xmas worth my while after all (more on that at a later date).

7. Read read read. Don’t foresee any problem keeping this one.

8. I don’t know.

9. Try to overcome my writer’s block that has become chronic.

10. Assimilate the truth: that writer’s block is a myth and I’m just an f’ing procrastinator.

11. Learn how to actually save money.

12. Learn how to not spend the money I actually learn how to save (assuming I make good on goal number 11).

13. I don’t know.

14. Turn 35 gracefully.

15. Get a new camera.

Okay, no interruptions of my time here aside from my own brain farts. My mind is drifting off in several directions at once–a chronic problem with me. I could, in fact, call it an uber problem.

There’s my list. For now.