1 January 2006

The first day of a new year and ...

Well, you guessed it. I am at work. As the military recognizes most holidays, but insists on working (literally) through them. I came in to work and found my family online for a chat. I always feel better when I can chat with them. The phone systems here are so shady that it barely lasts 5 minutes before something goes wrong, but I digress. On the positive side, I do have phone service and internet access. Praise God :) We can chat back and forth for an hour or so and I can clearly understand the English that is before me even if we both misspell words from time to time. I then got a call from my husband. He wished me Happy New Year and we cleared up a crap phone conversation from last night. He went then went to Mass and preached to me that "He took the cow." That's fine. So we don't have a cow, but we have each other through it all. Tracking. For some reason I have little excitement toward the new year. I am going for some drastic changes in my career very soon and after this is over I should have a nice break. I guess I have every reason to be happy and exstatic that last year is over. I learned a good bit about myself and my husband. I'm sure there is much more to know, but time will reveal those things when appropriate. As far as 2005 in review... I've given category scores: Career - 7; Love - 3; Family - 9; Spirituality - 9; Finances - 10. To sum it up, my career has taken off to include depositing significant amounts into my bank. It has been this way due to the support of my family and leaning on the strength of God while being supported and loved by my husband. I do feel that there has been so much going on that it has left as little time as I ever want there to be for the beauiful companionship of my marriage. Don't get me wrong, we do have a great marriage, but the time we have been apart (which is a whole lot) must be taken into account. So for 2006 I would like to see my marriage rate up there with spirituality. I expect to have less financial success, but still a steady rate of career success. Due to my marriage taking the main lead, the family rating might drop slightly. I'm working on loving life and trying to be happy where I am in the here and now. It is sometimes hard with all the instability of where I may be and training and such, but the love and support that I get from my husband and family and spiritual strength have thus far enabled me to do what I am supposed to do with a certain amount of excellence and grace and not loose my mind. I think having my sanity and half my health and still a marriage after this is over will have beaten a lot of odds already. I am about to make a solid effort to go to the gym and run for 1-2 miles (according to how high my motivation is). I am not looking to loose weight, but instead to gain strength and endurance. Happy 1 January 2006! "Fake it till you make it!" My feng shui quote of the day.