Resolutions

So, here I had written a nice long entry about things that I want to do this coming year, things I want to improve about myself and things that I want to do. Somehow, it was lost before I could save it. Thank you javascript. Thank you very much. In any case, I don't feel like rewriting it all, but here's a short summary of it, mostly for posterity's sake so I can look back on it.

• Lose weight: I started this years ago, but due to a number of circumstances, mostly laziness on my part, I dropped off and started gaining weight. Unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, a job change from one that made me run around a toy store daily for 8 hours to one where I sat on my rear in front of a computer for 8 hours. Either way, I went from being slightly in shape, to being totally out of shape.
• Work out more: In conjunction with the above, I've started working out more, and I want to continue to. I'm trying hard to make myself go at least three times a week, if not more. I've been going at least twice a week for the last month or so, give or take, and I've noticed a nice improvement in my stamina and my energy levels. And afterwards, I always come home feeling great. I just have to keep it up.
• Save money: Let's be honest, I've been terrible about this in the past. One of the things I want to do is build up an emergency fund for myself, just in case something happens and I need it, and then I want to start building up a savings for vacations and the like.
• Go back to school: I've been thinking lately that I want to go back to school. I just got out, but already I want to go back for more. When I was in school, I never put much effort into it and never really had much interest in the things I was doing. After starting this new programming job, I want to go back to get my Master's degree in Computer Science or at least go back and take a couple CS classes beyond the intro courses to see if I would want to continue doing this in the long term.
• Learn Japanese: I'll be honest. I love watching anime and Japanese drama shows. I'm not completely obsessed with them like some, but it definitely is one of my preferred forms of entertainment. Overall though, I think learning a new language would be good for me. I haven't learned a new one since Latin in high school and French in elementary school before that. So, in addition to the perk of being able to understand what's going on in the shows I watch without having to read subtitles as much, I could use the mental exercise.
  
• Travel: I was so busy trying to work, survive, and graduate college that while I was in it, I never took the chance to study abroad, to travel the world while I didn't have responsibilities to worry about. So, while I'm still young. I want to travel and explore the world, see new places. I figure I won't be able to do this right away, but I have 18 days of vacation every year. I guess I just feel so limited in my views, not having been to many places.
• Focus on the moment: This is probably the hardest and most important thing that I want to do in life. I've spent many hours of my life worrying about the past and the future. Things I can't change, and things that, no matter what I do, I have little control over. This has caused me tons of stress and anxiety. I'm trying hard to learn to forgive myself for the mistakes I make, learn and move on. I'm trying hard to live and enjoy each moment and not worry so much about the things that I have no control over and cannot change. It's an effort, it's probably harder than anything I've tried to do in my life, but it's worth doing.

So, that's about it. I know it's mostly just rambling, but they're thoughts I wanted to get out and put down somewhere. I also want to be able to look back on this in two months, six months, a year, and be able to see how far I've come. So I guess this is just another milestone in my life.