Most days I'd like nothing more than to write blog posts with the relative frequency I was once afforded. Because you see there are things, strage things, unimaginable stories, thoughts, and pop culture insights floating around in my brain that I'd love nothing more than to sit down for two free minutes and share with the world. But while I'd sit there for five minutes thinking of how to stop starting blog post sentences with prepositions or using the word 'however' 8 more fucking times, people are moving up in the world. So I've devoted 2010 to "doing it." Doing what? I don't know. Being better, I suppose. Moving up. Moving on. So, where am I?
1. I'm working. A lot. Somehow, an upside of working in the financial industry at this time is that nobody knows what the hell is going on. One minute we couldn't be more busy, the next we're all doomed and heading for a crash. With that in mind, our company took the conservative route by not hiring enough people and letting a lot of people move on to other departments. In turn, the market did well enough for us to become busy, and bam. Overworked. It's okay though, with being overloaded comes unlimited overtime, and with unlimited overtime comes more money. As an outcome, no more credit card debt. Also, company softball.
2. I'm being proactive. I'm learning to cook and to eat more economically and responsibly. I'm working out harder and smarter than I ever have before, seeing a chiropractor once or twice a week to fix the severely incorrect curve of my neck that's troubled me since middle school, and trying out recipes that reinforce all the other good habits I'm trying to keep. I'm finding that doing this all requires discipline and time, two things I'm working on making more of for myself.
3. I've moved! Sort of. I'm at an apartment in "downtown" Marlton, NJ with Ashley, and it's fantastic. Living on my own, I mean. The being so far away from work part has made my daily commute a living hell, but I've tempered that by staying at my parents house twice a week. Once because I need to play hockey near their house, and another just to save on gas,tolls, and sanity. Living on my own again for the first time since college is...just like college, only with way less drinking and much more responsibility. We're in a low rent situation, get-out-of-it-if-we-want-to situation, which is perfect for us. Only occasionally have Ash and I looked at each other with "now what?" look on our faces, and for the most part our living together has been an outrageous success full of shared responsibility and sacrifice for the overall greater good of our relationship.
4. I'm writing and researching. Not for blog posts or livejournal entries, but an honest to God business plan for what will one day be a bakery called Beachy Cakes. The ownership details are still hazy, and the implementation of such a plan is probably years off, but it WILL happen. If I need to own it in order to get Ashley's dreams off the ground, so be it. But I plan to make no money off of this venture until it makes sense that I be making any money other than the money I invested. I certainly am not the talent when it comes to cake making. Instead, and yes this is presumptuous, I consider myself the business and strategy specialist, at least of the two of us. Will it be a proprietorship? Partnership? LLC? All of this has yet to be decided. A store front? If so, where? How about a home-based business? To be decided, as well. The research takes time, but it seems like a worthy and efficient way to launch the career of my best friend, and the one of us who has any tangible marketable talent.
So, there's that. In lieu of long-winded, semi-researched blog postings, your'e most likely to find my ramblings boiled down into tweets and facebook status updates. Unless business slows down, although I think I'd rather it never slow down.
Let's DO IT, everyone. Let's all be better people in 2010 and beyond.
