something I am grateful for today
Jan. 2nd, 2011 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johncomicSince I'm slower than most, I'm still in year-end wrap-up mode, and today I am grateful for a year that ended particularly well.
At the beginning of 2010, we still owned our old house as well as our new one, and by my estimate the old one was costing us over $1000 a month [which for us is A Lot] in taxes and bills and fees, while we waited for the crash of '08 to abate enough to revive the housing market here. I had not taken a Proper Pen® and drawn a Proper Comic® in several years. I had never travelled outside of North America. And I was driving a [nearly-]20-year-old car which was growing progressively crankier and negatively impacting my life, but which I couldn't afford to replace.
As I write this, all that has changed for the better. That's a lot of major improvements in my life to all fit into one year!
On top of all that, 2010 brought some spiritual benefits as well, as I sorted a few personal things out and came to somewhat better terms with my world and my place in it. I feel more settled and wiser now than I did a year ago [kinda like Uncle Old Guy!]
If 2011 brings nothing more than a maintenance of today's status quo, I will be deliriously content. I am very happy with where I am right now.
(Yes, this is really me!)
At the beginning of 2010, we still owned our old house as well as our new one, and by my estimate the old one was costing us over $1000 a month [which for us is A Lot] in taxes and bills and fees, while we waited for the crash of '08 to abate enough to revive the housing market here. I had not taken a Proper Pen® and drawn a Proper Comic® in several years. I had never travelled outside of North America. And I was driving a [nearly-]20-year-old car which was growing progressively crankier and negatively impacting my life, but which I couldn't afford to replace.
As I write this, all that has changed for the better. That's a lot of major improvements in my life to all fit into one year!
On top of all that, 2010 brought some spiritual benefits as well, as I sorted a few personal things out and came to somewhat better terms with my world and my place in it. I feel more settled and wiser now than I did a year ago [kinda like Uncle Old Guy!]
If 2011 brings nothing more than a maintenance of today's status quo, I will be deliriously content. I am very happy with where I am right now.
(Yes, this is really me!)
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2010
Date: 2011-01-03 02:17 am (UTC)I'm hoping 2011 brings more money and less pain - a book contract would be nice too.