Corner of solitude

The cricket season is definitely here now, I’m watching Australia play against India as I’m typing this. Anyway here are the resolutions or rather they are next year’s goals, which is in five days time.

1. On top of my list is to become a licensed electrician
2. Add more content to this site, especially the Bill and Ted section
3. Read all discworld novels from Terry Pratchett’s first to his latest
4. Get my car license, yes folks I don’t have a car license
5. Buy a new graphics editor like Illustrator or photoshop
6. Blog regularly
7. Review all 26 episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion
8. Do more creative art also creative writing for my online Fiction
9. Save enough for another trip overseas
10. Get a dental checkup
11. Learn a second language or to play an instrument

Here’s a breakdown of little goals to achieve my ultimate goal of becoming a licensed Electrician

1. Re enroll for the capstone course
2. Study regularly
3. Finish weekly assignments
4. Fine tune my portfolio
5. Past the theory exam
6. Past the practical exam
7. Send away all my paper work to the Fair Trading people

Only six more days till new years, so how was your christmas day folks? Wonderful, stressful or just plain old dreadful? For me it’s always been dreadful, especially when I was a kid. But that’s only at the start of the day, as the day goes on it can only get better. And at the end of the day I find that I’ve enjoyed myself. Mingling with the relos, meeting new family friends, new members of the family, playing with the kids, bickering, laughing, talking, sharing stories and so on.

It all ends up as self discovery, because you find while you’re telling your story or little anecdotes that through out the year that you’ve changed, whether it was for the worse or for the better, it doesn’t matter, just as long as you have developed. And that’s why I love anecdotes, telling them or listening to them, I love’em all. Especially the funny ones. Unfortunately when I tell them they don’t come out right and aren’t very funny at all. Take the following anecdote of what happened earlier today for example.

My uncle was talking about how throughout the year he was into reading the history about the sutherland shire and the sailor it was named after, to one of our family friends who came over this year. The sailor’s name was Forby Sutherland, a crewman in Captain Cook’s ship the Endeavour. And as my uncle was droning on about it my older cousin Steph who is usually pretty switched on goes “…forby? Is that a piece of wood?” And everyone laughed, but she was wondering why. I thought it was pretty funny myself, so much so I was compelled to blog about it which is what I’m doing now. Anyway, everyone was about to tell her why everyone was laughing when her husband Greg beat us to it, “…you’re thinking of forbyfour…” as in four inches by four inches, the dimension of the wood.

This is the second episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion, it’s titled “the Beast.” This is the first time an Eva battles against an Angel. Unit 01 totally kicks ass, this badboy goes berserk like a primeval beast. Easily one of my favourite episode ever just for the end battle sequence if for nothing else. Here’s my review The Beast, I know its half finish, but give me a break it’s seven days away until the new year.

I’m sure all of you know that. I’ve suspected this myself to be true for a long long time, it’s just that I’ve never got around to finding a night that I can go to bed early and still sleep in late the next morning. Well last night was the night, after watching tv, Top Gear and the Iron Chef (yes it’s back on), I managed to have a full nights sleep and sleep in this morning. In actual fact I’ve just woken up. I was so refreshed and happy that I decided to post about it. As I have tomorrow off as well as Christmas and Boxing day, I can do it three more times. It’s great winding down for the new year, eight days to go after today.