A new year and a new start

I went to Georgia for Christmas and found out that a few of my old friends read my blog. Add to that some of my new-ish friends and that gives me a new reason to keep writing.

This is a new year. It is 2006. That is hard to believe. It doesn't seem like that long ago when we weren’t sure that the world would survive past the year 2000. (So much for end-time prophecies.) This year I will turn 27 and officially be pushing 30. When I was younger I thought 27 was really old. Now I know it is not. In some ways I feel like a little kid that is just pretending to be grown-up. In other ways I feel like a bitter old woman. Maybe that is the paradox that we all live within. We all walk the line between fear and ignorance of the future and the fulfillment and regret of the past.

One thing I do know about this year is that I want to make some changes. I want to grow-up and do a little less pretending to be grown up. I want to really live what I believe. I really want to know what I believe... then I want to live that out.

I want to get my stupid money issues in order. I am tired of being a slave to my finances. I totally believe that people were not meant to live in a monetary based society. It is stressful and unnatural and it controls all of us to one degree or another. I want to be less controlled by this artificial societal construct.

And I want to get healthy again. I hate New Years resolutions but I suppose those are my three. I suppose I could add one more--to start using this blog again...