Re-winding 2OO5...

2005; over.
2006; minutes away.

2005 Recap:

All in all I'd say that 2005 was a pretty good year. The year when Angela and I finally decided to take our friendship to the next level. A decision that was definately a good one. She has made this year enjoyable and fun. I'm extremely thankful and blessed to have her in my life. I hope that she will be along for the ride through 2006 and beyond. I LOVE YOU ANGELA! VBM!

I got rid of my favorite truck because of all the memories that were attached to it. Another good move I would say. I've spent the year trying to put some distance between rehab and the present time. It's worked pretty well. At the beginning of the year I would still dwell on the recovering drug addict things and the death of Sara but as the year rolled along it all just started to fade into the distance. Not that I don't think about all those things anymore but they just aren't in my face all the time and on my mind.

I'm still working at the same job and I have taken on more and more responsibilities which is a catch 22. By taking on more responsibilities I'm becoming quite the asset to the company but on the other hand I get a lot of work dumped on me because I am reliable and get things done. For instance, just this week the hard drive in our main fileserver went bad. Of course everyone freaked out (including myself) and looked to me to fix it. The person responsible to do the backup of the drives hadn't been doing them so it looked pretty bleek. At the end of the day things were screwed and everyone left to go start their long holiday weekends leaving me to resolve the problems. Well, I knew that if the data that was on the drive that crashed couldn't be recovered that the company was going to suffer a major setback or spend thousands of dollars in data recovery. So I spent my Friday imaging the drive with my fingers crossed, buying new drives and doing my best to fix things. Then today I spent all day extracting as many files from the completed image (thank God) which was very time consuming but worth it because almost all the data was recovered. Basically if I wouldn't have done anything about the problem then nothing would have been done. This is one thing that I wish the guys on my team would do. Take responsibility. Step up and get things done. Not wait around for me to do it. I've bitched and I'm done with this subject.

Oh, it's New Years! Happy New Years!

Time for new year resolutions! Oh joy. One thing people always do is make unrealistic new year resolutions and then they wonder why they can't keep them. I'm going to keep mine simple, realistic and attainable.

So here we go,

mbh's 2006 New Year Resolutions:

1. Communicate better with Angela and keep on doing my best to treat her the best I can. Not that this is really a problem but there are times when the communications could have been better on my part.

2. Hang out with my best friends more. I haven't really hung out with them in a while and I miss doing it. So I'm going to try more this year to go see my friends.

3. Save more money. Money + bank = good.

4. Get my own place and move out on my own. As much as I like living at home with the folks and not paying rent, I think it's time to move on.

5. Work smarter and not harder. There are times when I put hours and hours into work but never have anything to show for it. I need to plan my days and weeks better at work to efficiently get tasks done.

6. Manage my time better. This also falls under the "work smarter not harder" one but this can also be related to everything in my life.

7. Try to get on normal eating and sleeping patterns. I eat and sleep at the weirdest times and I know it isn't healthy. I'm going to try to eat better and at regular times and get to sleep at a decent time so I feel refreshed and rested during the day. There are too many times when I feel like I'm dragging at work.

Anyways, these are very reasonable I think so we'll see how I do in a year from now.

Happy New Year to all my friends and family around this small earth!

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