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Life Review 2005

Every year, I take stock of the things I accomplished during the year and think about the items I’d like to attempt to get done during the coming year. The week between Christmas and New Year’s is usually a pretty slow time for me, and I can ponder these events at great length while finishing up end of the year tasks, the sort that are great for mind-wandering while still being productive.

I don’t know if I have time for any of that crap this year…

I took a vacation day yesterday and already I’m regretting my four day holiday. I worked late on Friday (literally the last person to leave the building by 3 hours or so) to try and get ahead, and now I’m further behind than I want to be at the beginning of the day. I’ll be this busy until April.

Yuck.

So in the spirit of brevity…

I think 2005 was a good year:

• I didn’t fall off the roof
• Started a business
• Promoted at work
• Started the first company blog
• Started yoga
• Printed my first graphic novel
• Had my first in-store signing
• Celebrated five years of marriage

Now for 2006, I think I would like to see:

• Quick Step printed
• Start an e-commerce/affiliate site (still thinking heavily about this)
• Start a new webcomic/graphic novel with updates at least three times a week
• Some advertising campaigns
• More pinups
• Commissions?
• Stay married
• More yoga
• More cycling (got to get that aerobic up)

And, I even got some things done already that had been planned for 2006:

• Start a new comics-specific blog (The Right Back Alley)
• Get a new bed

The Chief and I get goosebumps thinking about how soft our new bed will be when it is delivered Saturday. Oh, it was a merry day-after-Christmas for us, oh yes.

How did your 2005 go?

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