Resolve 2007?

I've been thinking lately about what I said last year I'd do this year, and I've come to the conclusion that new years' resolutions are overrated. With that, I've decided that all I want to do in 2007 is the same thing I did in 2006, and that is to simply rock steady.

I know I'll not get out of Georgia very soon as Beth and I must finish large milestones in our educational and financial goals, so we'll simply keep doing what we're doing, and aim for cool stuff rather than resolve to do something. Beth came up with a novel idea: we are probably going to budget enough time and money for me to take one certification exam every quarter. With that, I'll probably schedule the test and have to "shit or get off the pot." For something that I've wanted to do and half-assed for several years now, I certainly don't want to have wasted my time and energy.

But that's about it. We'll keep schooling and doing projects on the house, and when the time is right we'll move on to better things. But there is no absolute resolution, and there never was. Think about it: with all that going on (house-buying, daughter-raising, parents moving, sibling relocation, software projects failing and driving 15,000 miles on the job) how could anyone try to read the unread books in my library and blog every day? That's just ridiculous.

So among my peers and their resolutions to lose weight, get better jobs, get more, spend more, and save the world, I'm going to opt out and pick up a book.

Have a fantastic new year.