Ma petite vie

LEARN TO ICE SKATE!!! (and there's a free rink outside with music 2 minutes from here, too!!) (and they let you rent skates)

Résolutions 2010:

+Learning to not take shit without giving any...
.Examples: If someone is being stupid and insulting me or being an asshole, I dont have to lower myself at their level and be an asshole too. Instead, I wanna try to take the high road and reply with irony or humour while staying dignified.
.Not using insult words, not accusing people without proof (I often accuse others and then realize it was all MY fault cause i was mixed-up or forgot something.... not good!)
.No more panicking, getting anxious, stressing, etc Stress is of no use except to make you sick and stuff! CHILL OUT.
"Not getting frustrated at OBJECTS or my cat... it's not gonna help!
+No more procrastinating. If you can do something NOW, dont wait because you dont know what's coming your way tomorrow!
+Make the most you can with my time evryday.


More practical stuff:

SPRING - EARLY YEAR:
.Get a non-ripped, thin shaped, one piece wood & velvet couch (and get rid of my ripped, 3-piece, oversized one)
.Get a PART-TIME job and keep it (or at least always have one regularly - not spend a whole month without working at least a little)
.Make more zines!
.Trade zines! READ ZINES!
.Get my personal website up & running & learn to use "Buy" Paypal buttons for zines & stuff
.Do painting for real
.Pimp up my Etsy
.Install shelves on the wall and buy books to put in them, and zines
.Start broadcasting my radio show "31" by January 31st
.Paint my FLOORS in January (Eternity Blue + real constellations)
.Paint the West wall turquoise and Murasaki and make paint touch-ups in the house
.Get and install more lamps in here
.Start karate in the fall aswell
.Get a job by january's end
.Renew my underwear and throw the old ones in the trash. They're really too old!
.Only smoke outside the apartment cuz it stinks stuff up and I dont notice until I step out and it's just not good cuz 2nd hand smoke is more dangerous than smoking (really!)
.See my friends more often
.Make sure my cell phone is always in service [after rent & food & the cat are takin' care of, of course]
.Not be ashamed to eat at the homeless place at 75¢ a meal if I am broke! Use the services at my disposal. Go to the food bank when needed. Ask for help if needed. No shame!
.Stop wasting 50¢ to make phonecalls that sometimes land in voicemails or dead ends and use the phone in the hospital cafeteria for free!
.Get a cheaper internet provider for illimited service so I dont have to worry about overcharges, cause I upload TONS and download a bit.
.Move my desk from the window and make a living-room area there so I can have people over for tea & stuff.
.Keep the place clean
.Try to do my Street Faery duty once a week (Tuesday nights/Wed mornings-PM)
.Work, and then reward myself. Instead of do nothing and be broke.
.Get back to listening to the radio, especially the monday afternoon country program on CKIA and clean up while listening, so much easier and faster when listening to upbeat music!
.Not spend months without cleaning this place, it's depressing & then I'm ashamed to have people over. No-no!
.Do a zine launch with Katapulpe in March!
.Participate in the Rendez-vous des publications parallèles here in town in May!
.Become a member of ENgramme and make copies for cheap! And have color covers on my zines!!
.Get my zines in distros all over the world & local stores aswell.
.Make videocip remakes with my new cam
.Work on the "DiXionary"
.words, words, words
.Write letters again!
.Always have candy around the house
.Eat cake (real fresh bakery cake) at least twice a week
.Get my bread fresh from the bakery, not processed bread from grocery stores
.Have my grocery delivered, the 3PM delivery is free
.Cook a piece of meat at least once a week
.Get Arcane "legal deposit" at the library
.Get my zines back into zine librairies, la Fanzinothèque, etc starting local and expanding Canada, US, then world


SUMMER :
.Learn to use my sewing machine (Andréane knows) and use it (what's the use of it if it's sitting in the closet!!)
.Build muscle back with weights and exercise and get back to 115+ pounds (I'm below 105 now)
.EAT EVERY DAY even if I have to ask my friends or go to homeless places / soup kitchen
.Take care of my body
.Sever all ties with my "father" cuz it's always negative. Dont need negative in my life!!
.Rent good movies, burn downloaded movies and get the cover art copied & put in a case
.Do more crafts
.By a rice cooker back (mine broke down)
.Get a balance and weigh myself (and hope the number goes UP!)
.Get a bus pass back and explore the city with it
.Get back to reading more and make a list of books I wanna buy and buy some. Go to used books stores with my list and skim the store to get as much as I can!
.Get my cat OUT (how would you like spending your life inside never going out in one room all day??!)
.Go to the movies more often I MISS IT!!
.Eat out more often healthy stuff (sushi, salads, morrocan food, falafel, japanese, asian food, bakery etc)
.Go have drinks at leat every 2 weeks. It's good for your soul to sit and observe people and just be out! Dont need to get drunk!
.Take a trip somewhere else than Montreal (New York? Vancouver? Winnipeg? elsewhere? -I'm not quite overseas ready just yet!! too expensive & ...my cat!! but I'm gettin' there! maybe 2011!)
.Take better care of my nails, hair, body in general. It's outside stuff but it's also part of feeling good with yourself!
.Go to play live bingo even if I have to go alone cuz none of my friends are game enough or interested.
.Find friends to go bowling and karaoke. Cuz it's GREAT FUN!!!
.I will not miss EXPO-QUÉBEC next year! Who wants to come and ride the rides and win plushes all day?!
.Go to every fucking fireworks show in town (Lévis Desjardins, Fort No1, Loto-Québec, St-Jean, 1er Juillet, & autres)
.Bring Marcel to Montmagny accordion festival on Saturday AND Sunday. The bus is only 8$/day!
.Always have 100$ in my checking account. I hate it when someone invites me somewhere and having to say "I cant go I'm broke". I gotta make sure I'm not broke anymore. Life's too short to be "waiting not to be broke anymore"!
.Get my first tattoo
.Send "Adieu Osoré" manuscript to big publishers
.Use my bartending diploma to get a *good* bar job for the summer (TIP$$$$ and FUN!!! Metting people every day!!! Free drinks! Music! Friends! Dressings nice for work! Doing things myself! Being in charge! LIFE! ETC!)

FALL / END OF YEAR :
.Have savings put aside in case of emergency, minimum 1500$ by the end of 2010. (That's only about 120$/month!)
.Payoff my VISA debt at least half-way (4000$ right now so put 2000$ on it in the year- 200$ a month)
.Go to Expozine MTL in the fall.
.Go to University in the Japanese Language program in the Fall
.Start karate downtown in August
.Have "Les Solitaires Tome 1" ready for publisher's by the end of the year
.Publish Arcane Magazine 4 times a year

YEAH, I expect a lot from myself. Because I KNOW I CAN.
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2009's resolution was something like "No more drama" or something. I believe I've been 70% able to do it, not completely, but I got better by the END of the year a lot, except the isolated incident here & there. I do want to step to a next level into "no-drama-ism". We'll see. (this is a resolution almost every year and I do improve on it every fucking day!)

One 2-page article to type, and a 9-page one to print, cut & paste.

And ready to print!

I need a carbon paper sheet.
My typewriter ribbon is finished.