Posts made in February, 2010
looking forward: 2010
First, I thought of creating a list of my new year’s resolution but I decided against it because of two reasons. One, it think it is too late. The first month of the year’s gone and no, I won’t be creating a New Year’s resolution for the Chinese New Year (which is next week, I think). Two, I am, anyhow, not good at keeping resolutions so why bother? I won’t put myself under the pressure of having to resolve things within a time frame.
winter in graz
But I will list my plans. I like plans. At least with plans, there are always alternatives if they don’t work out. Resolutions, on the other hand, sound so drastic. Like, I “need” to change things or else I will be the same person I was in the previous year and my life will stay the way it is. Resolutions are more like promises to yourself you have to keep. They just have to be fulfilled.
Who wants such pressure? Obviously, not me.
So here are my plans for this year.
- Put the house together in accordance to what we need and what we can afford. My husband and I just bought a house and like many other young couples who are from humble families, most of our savings went to the purchase of the house. It was also necessary for us to take a housing loan to cover that which can’t be covered by our savings. The house is “Belagsfertig”. That means, it is completely finished outside but it still needs work inside. The heating, electrical circuits, floor, kitchen, toilet, bathroom, and the painting still need to be done and those are what we are working on right now. We decided to do some things ourselves to save some money and because we already have a very handsome credit, we agreed not to take more credit. Hopefully, we will still be able to save money for some nice stuff for the house.
Alternative: if in case, we are not able to save money, we can always use our old stuff and be content with it until we are able to afford fancier things.
- Make teaching props during the summer break. The most difficult part of my job is preparing teaching materials. It is taking so much of my energy and my time so to make my life easier for the next school year; I plan to prepare my teaching props this summer.
Alternative: If by chance, I can’t find time to do this during the summer break, I’ll just have to be content with the teaching props available at the learning center or I’ll just have to accept that my second year of teaching won’t be that much easier from my first year.
Those are the two main things. The less import things are as follows.
- I plan to visit home.
- I plan to take more pictures. I am living in a very nice city so why not compile my impressions of it?
- I plan to save for an iMac. I do have a lappy and it is still very good but an iMac is just so… beautiful. I don’t plan to buy it this year. I just would like to save for it.
- I plan to learn how to bake. I am already excited because I am getting my very own kitchen soon! With all the things I need for baking and cooking.
- I plan to start a garden. The house we bought has a tiny garden! Excited, excited, excited!
Those are my plans and some of them I share with my husband.
I know. You’re probably a bit disappointed. I imagine you saying like… that’s it?!? Really? What about having a baby?
I’ve been asked about that question several times.
Baby…. hmmmm.
That will have to wait a bit.
I don’t know when exactly but I still have enough hormone pills for six months. Haha.
Seriously though, we think we are ready but we still have wait until the house is ready and then we can start trying. *wink
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