http://derekbender.com Mon, 10 May 2010 03:42:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://derekbender.com/blog/announcements/my-new-years-list http://derekbender.com/blog/announcements/my-new-years-list#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:56:54 +0000 derekbender http://blog.derekbender.com/?p=227 I've never been a believer in making any sort of New Year's resolutions. I hate the idea of saying you'll do something and end up not doing it, which is what happens to most resolutions after January. But I saw a couple really good resolution lists (most notably Kevin Rose's and Lee Munroe's) and thought it would be a good idea to have a list to guide me in this next year instead of random ideas and thoughts bouncing around in my head. Then I thought it would be a good idea to throw them up here to share. I'm using the word "list" instead of "resolutions" because more often then not, resolutions are broken. So, in no particular order, here's my list for 2009!

• Read a few books, I'm a fan of Bradbury and I would like to explore some more of his books.
• Get into apparel design. I've made a few designs already (devotionclothing.com) but I'd really like to explore the medium in-depth and of course, I'd like to get a few printed.
• Speak at an event. BarCamp Miami is coming up in March, any suggestions for topics?
• Design a font. This one is big. I've started sketching in my moleskine but it seems the end of the year has monopolized my free time. No time like the present to start this back up.
• Get to church more
• Start exercising regularly. Wow, this is the one that everyone breaks...
• Take over my student loan payments. This one will make my parents happy :) Without them I wouldn't be here and this year I'm going to start paying them back.
• Buy less crap. We are a society of mindless consumers and last thing any of us needs is more junk polluting our lives.
• Sit by Lake Eola and work. Florida has some amazing weather and on the really nice days I wished I could go outside and work. Now i can. Yah MacBook!
• Learn jQuery. Nothing to crazy, I'm a designer after all, but some cool, simple stuff would be very helpful.
• Watch more films! Been missing my quality time with my Netflix queue. Big fan of the zombie sub-genre. Also I'd like to watch some Kubrick that I've not had the chance to see.
• Redesign my site
• Sell helpmepaymyloans.com. If you or anyone you know is interested in buying a successful startup finance blog, please email me!
• Design and get a tattoo. Don't read this one Mom.
• Do a new illustration at least once a month

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