We’re back in Paris after a week in the mountains, ready to tackle the New Year. During our week long vacation in the Pyrenees, Dorah might have broken her tailbone, we both had some sort of food intoxication and I thought I tore a ligament somewhere… so all and all it was a typical vacation for us (no pain, no game).
I thought I’d start a tradition and blog my New Year’s resolutions for longevity’s sake, in hopes that some day, a bored extraterrestrial might stumble upon me in the lost archives of the great “Web 2.0.” 2009 has been a pretty eventful year for Dorah and I. Career-wise, Dorah got a promotion and I started working for a promising French geolocation start-up called Tellmewhere (you can find me here).
Other big adventures: if all works out with our bank, we should be moving to a different apartment inMontreuilaround March. If I could compare Montreuil to anything in the States, it might be like Brooklyn compared to Manhattan. Our present apartment in Paris has its advantages and its disadvantages although currently the disadvantages are starting to outweigh the advantages, coupled by our mutual desire for change (and ownership). Dorah has been here a long time and parting, evidently, will be sweet sorrow. Since moving will be such a big event, hopefully I’ll have the time for the following resolutions:
Keep putting money in the bank (and not in cheeseburgers (cow slaughter) and beer (grain slaughter)!)
Less Clutter + Impeccable Organization + a Feng Shuied new apartment
More physical activity: enroll in a Yoga class
Help company succeed internationally (think out of the box). If Bic pens could cross the Atlantic, so can we….
Attend design conferences
Do design projects outside of work (practice makes perfect)
Subscribe to a design publication
Watch more videos on Lynda.com: perfect technical skills (do I know my programs inside and out?)
Make it back to the United States at least once (it has been over two years…whoops!)
Write more (by hand, by blog, by email, by whatever, just write)
Read more: a book a month
On my Wish List: get an iPhone, tweet a photo everyday (@fussandfeathers)
Scrap this Wordpress blog, create a lighter / easier to update Tumblr blog…. then post from that iPhone that I’ll presumably have.
Give Dorah more gifts
If 2010 is a really good year, I’ll have a more powerful laptop that I can work off of
Play more with Clarky (our cat, apparently the Swedes concluded that cats need at least 2 hours of social activity every day)
Try to cook something other than pasta
Expand your French vocabulary, read the French newspaper, work on your shoddy American accent…
Time to sign off now that looking at this list is beginning to stress me out. We’re off to a good start…
2010 New Year’s Resolutions
We’re back in Paris after a week in the mountains, ready to tackle the New Year. During our week long vacation in the Pyrenees, Dorah might have broken her tailbone, we both had some sort of food intoxication and I thought I tore a ligament somewhere… so all and all it was a typical vacation for us (no pain, no game).
I thought I’d start a tradition and blog my New Year’s resolutions for longevity’s sake, in hopes that some day, a bored extraterrestrial might stumble upon me in the lost archives of the great “Web 2.0.” 2009 has been a pretty eventful year for Dorah and I. Career-wise, Dorah got a promotion and I started working for a promising French geolocation start-up called Tellmewhere (you can find me here).
Other big adventures: if all works out with our bank, we should be moving to a different apartment in Montreuil around March. If I could compare Montreuil to anything in the States, it might be like Brooklyn compared to Manhattan. Our present apartment in Paris has its advantages and its disadvantages although currently the disadvantages are starting to outweigh the advantages, coupled by our mutual desire for change (and ownership). Dorah has been here a long time and parting, evidently, will be sweet sorrow. Since moving will be such a big event, hopefully I’ll have the time for the following resolutions:
Time to sign off now that looking at this list is beginning to stress me out. We’re off to a good start…