naladahc | tripping along the golden path

So. It is now 2006.

Can someone please tell me where the hell 2005 went? I mean seriously. Where the hell did it go?

It seems like I was just standing Ben J's front porch watching fireworks go off for New Year's Eve 2004. What the fuck? Ack!

While I don't make New Year's Resolutions, I do have some goals that do need to be accomplished in the first part of 2006.

January 2006

• Figure out what the hell to get The Cousin for his birthday since this is the last birthday he'll probably be happy admitting to. Just wait until 2007 C!
• Get the 2 rooms of the front bedroom finished by Friday, January 20th.
• Start working out, however brief, with a weigh trainer and shift my program towards a weight lifting/cardio combination.
• If possible, get down to 230 by January 27th.
• Get all non-comics related shit shorted and/or thrown away out of the Attic of Love™ closet.
• Figure out how to sort and prep comics to be sold and/or given away.
• Find Max Power some form of 36th birthday present that represents the fact that both he and I are now, truly, and officially, fucking old as hell.

• Get the basement stairwell quickly and cheaply fixed and redone by February 17th.
• Remember that the Fabulous Andrea™ will hit the three-five milestone and therefore requires extra special love even though she stopped aging at 22.
• If possible, get down to 215 by February 28th.
• Sell all non-show character Beast Wars figures.
• Sell the pile of shit that should have been sold from the Attic of Love™ in 2005.
• Try and have the comics out of the house by end of the month.

• If possible, get down to 200-205 by March 17th. Size 36 pants would be really mega balls cool too.
• Prepare for passing over the hump and begin squarely looking at that four-oh down the tunnel.
• If possible, repair wall mortar and drylock the laundry area of the basement by March 31.
• If possible, repair wall mortar and drylock/paint the room under the front porch by March 31.

• Meet with mortgage agent and bankers.
• Touch up paint in hallway and seal cracks that have appeared in living room.
• Maintain 200!!!

• Put the House of Love™ III on the market and hope for the best so I can get off this shithole block and into a quieter neighborhood.
• Find religion so that I can continually pray that I'll be able to come up with the monthly mortgage to a house in a non-retarded neighborhood with the insane housing prices and lovely Bush 2006 economy.

• Get to San Francisco and spend quality time with those I know and love and get to meet all the people I so badly want to meet.
• Commission Erik to shoot the photo for the dust jacket of my new books Transformers: Splintered, Knots Landing: More Than Meets The Eye, and Doctor Who: How many times do I have to tell you not to fuck with the Doctor?

See. Easy. Piece of cake!

And that's only the first half of the year!