This Is My Life

So I just finished my Linguistics Winter class on Friday. Winter classes are fun because you go to class longer each day, but for a shorter amount of time overall. The teacher has to cram a bunch of knowledge into your brain (or tell you to do it yourself) and generally everyone's a bit more frazzled.

Today would be the first day of Arabic 106 (Intermediate Arabic), except that any classes before 4pm are not in session. I have no idea why they do that on the first day of class, but I like it. I feel bad for the students whose classes are after 4, but I'm not one of them, so I'm not that worried.

Meanwhile, work has picked up again to where I'm earning decent money. A few contractors got let go, so there's more work to go around. I think the manager wanted to make sure she kept the good contractors, and in order to do that had to make sure to have some work in queue for us. I'll say this: It's nice to have put in a full days work before 11 AM. I don't think I could do that with any other job unless I started working before 9.

Social life has gotten busier too. With the addition of meetup.com to my life I've started finding some really cool things to do around here. The game night last night was a potluck dinner with lots of people at a really cool location. The next thing I want to do is go with the Adventure Group to one of their outings; they cost a lot of money, but they're usually something cool like learning how to ride a Harley, or how to make sushi. Diverse, and cool. Then there's the musician group, and the roleplaying group, and then, and then, and then.....

Things are good.

Now that I'm done with work, it's time to start cleaning the house.

My day just went from "AWESOME" to "Man, that sucks."

Not really. I'm in a great mood! Today rocks!

Interesting post later. Dealing with a huge heaping of "don't wannas" today. Maybe it's the Winter? Maybe it's just a lot of stuff. I don't know. Fighting with my brain to make myself get to class, get homework finished, shower, all that usual stuff that most people do without really thinking about it.

Doing okay, not angry/sad/depressed, or whatever. Just "don't wanna." *shrugs*

Going to.

Remember the wish list I posted a while back? I figured I might get one or two of the things if I was very lucky, seeing as I'd been a good boy this year, and Santa probably liked me.

Turns out, I doubled my expected return on the list. 4 things given by 5 people. That's absolutely awesome and completely unexpected. The things I figured I'd get would be the cheaper things, and that would be from Maria.

I'm blown away. Thank you folks.

That being said, I'm going to post the remainder of the list. Not because I expect to get anything (the remaining stuff is quite expensive for the most part) but for my own information down the line. Sort of a check to see if this is stuff I should be saving for, or if they were just flights of fancy in the moment and not something I really want so bad.

1. A DSLR camera

2. Ages of Empires: Collector's edition

3. Fallout and/or Fallout 2

4. Rosetta Stone: Arabic

5. 4th Edition D&D core rulebooks

6. A leather jacket

Maria recently took me aside, as I was explaining to her that I had another idea to make money, and told me an ancient Chinese proverb, as handed down to her in class: "A man chasing two rabbits ultimately catches none."

While I disagree with the statement (my original reply was "A man with a gun can chase three rabbits, and have a nice dinner"), the thought behind it is true. I have a million ideas, each one bound to bring me money, fame, friends, and fortune, but my ability to actually follow through with them is lacking. I have to focus. I have to pay attention to just one thing, not 78,642. If I can do that, I have a chance at success.

So I'm focusing. Still, on more than one thing because that's boring, but definitely on less than before. Here are my three focal points:

1. Clean the house, keeping it neat and tidy.
~You'd think this wouldn't be a focus, if you didn't know me. Anyone who has been in my house in the past knows that I need to focus deeply to get this one. I'm bad at "tidy," and horrible at "neat."

2. Pizzeria
~I want to start my own pizzeria, with the focal point being pizza and wings.

3. Food competitions
~This is on-the-side, but could very easily become a much more solid and mainstream part of my life if it turns out that I can do well in them. If I enter 100 and am not even close to winning, well, then I'll probably slow down, not enter a million at once, and just do a few here and there, but until then I want this to be part of the things I focus on.

So, there. Focus. Clean, create, and cook.

Oh, and lose weight.

And blog in all 7 of my blogs every day.

While we're at it, I need to keep taking pictures, and get better at that.

Plus volunteering at the SPCA.

Also, there's all these rabbits running around.