So This is the New Year...

It's been a long time since the last post, but I've been living too much to take the time to write it down. Wrote this last night, so it's kinda fuzzy recounting the details. Hope to be caught up soon. I've decided to make this my daily journal along with a thought diary. Oh, and the nautical theme will probably be on its way out, unless it's a post about thoughts or I just feel like being a pirate :D

January 1st 2007: New Year’s Day; Today was the first big moving day once we got the new apartment. We made a couple trips and moved a lot from both Cedar Park and 26th Street. Dad and James helped and with the truck were able to move all the big stuff like the bed and the couch. That night was also the first time I used the Carver’s nice English-style bath. It’s big and porcelain and holds two people quite nicely. I gave Jen a back massage and then a full body one. After that we watched some of Hogan’s Heroes Season Four, which I received for X-mas from both the Grandparents and Len. Season Four definitely had a bigger budget and the jokes are more humorous, which I think comes from more character development. And so the first day of the year ended in a stranger’s house for the third night. I know it’s silly to set an arbitrary start and end date to goals, but I still think that it’s nice to have resolutions so that there’s some direction and improvement for the year.
Chase’s 2007 Resolutions/Goals:
1. Lose 50~ pounds (this will roughly bring me back down to my end of high school weight, which was quite healthy.)
2. Read one (1) fiction book and one (1) non-fiction book a month in addition to my reading load for class.
3. Determine to which graduate schools I would like to apply (MUST be done for any future machinations to start)
4. Give more kisses to my Love (should be easily accomplished)
5. Try to develop my art more (I’m enjoying the medium of crayon on heavy, coarse paper. It gives good sketchy lines and texture)
6. Be more tolerant and compassionate in my everyday actions, words, and thoughts.

January 2nd: Back to Work, this time at Downtown instead of Cedar Park or Westlake. Rob was good to see again. There was a new guy, Gavin, whom I was there to augment. He seems nice enough, but fairly green for his supposed 8 years experience, even on the easy stuff like jogging and binding. Oh, and he talks a lot. Everyone seemed in good spirits, even though it was the day after a holiday weekend and thus a comparative Monday. Made lots of Specification books due to Ed’s absence, but I enjoy doing spec work now and again. Also, today was the day my medical claim was settled with State Farm and I received and deposited a check to the tune of four hundred dollars ($400). In the evening, my lady and I dined at our favorite Asian restaurant, Sushi Sake, where we feasted on Eel, Alaskan, and Californian rolls and Red Snapper sashimi, which was delicious per the usual. After gorging ourselves on raw fish and miso soup, we went by Best Buy to return the compact disc of the Cure that Jennifer had purchased for my X-mas present. While at Best Buy, we checked out their selection of televisions (or as the incomparable Chris Yates refers to them, “Idiot Boxes”). We found on that suits our budget and requirements; the Sony 27” WEGA should fulfill all our televisory needs for the near future. A trip to Barnes and Noble in the Arboretum followed Best Buy and we browsed quite a bit. I got two Cure compact discs, “Staring at the Sea” and “Galore,” both are greatest hits collections, but both are incomplete in their track lists. Also, I purchased “U2 18” which is a U2 collection and Jen got a book and a digital video disc of some silly film with a guy with crazy hair (Amadeus). That’s all I can remember of the second, as it has been six days when this has been written.