Returned, refreshed, revived!

I've been away for the past fortnight, celebrating the holidays with family and friends, and generally taking a good long break from blogging, internet date searching and so on. As it turned out, a couple of things came up while I was away that I felt required immediate bloggery, but in general I have enjoyed my time away from the keyboard.

That said, it feels very nice to be back. A change can do you good, to be sure, but in the end sometimes the things you're with most of the time are the things that are valuable to you or work for you. So I find with my life. After a while, I feel ready to slip back into what works for me, and part of that is blogging.

So here I am, back again, saying "'ow do!" to 2011.

I'm not big on new year's resolutions, I have 3 this year. One of which is just to keep up with last year's solitary resolution, and another of which is a resolution I actually made before the holidays came around. Each one has clear criteria for success or failure and has a specific outcome in mind so that I can know whether I have completed the resolution (or at least am doing well at completing it).

They are:

1. Continue being pro-active in seeking a partner. (Measured by whether I maintain the same amount of initial contacts, and whether or not I manage to pluck up the courage to make a first move in r/l situations)
2. Investigate and find a way to get into adult movie performing
3. Join at least one local sports team (the cricket club and possibly a pub football ('soccer') team)

Winter nets may be coming up soon for the cricket club and I may be able to get into the Sunday 2nd XI (I'm no better than that) if I go along. The adult movie thing, readers may recall from my earlier posts about exploring that idea. And last year's resolution was to be pro-active in seeking dates/a partner (and it worked okay, here's to better success in 2011!)

Since #1 worked well last year, I am hopeful that I will be able to do all of these, though what success I will have in the results of that remains to be seen.   But marking the resolution a success is not dependent on whether the endeavour is successful - I succeed if I join the team, the team winning (or selecting me to play!) is not relevant to the success of the resolution, for example (and not being cast in any adult movies is irrelevant to whether I did everything else to put myself forwards for it).

I'm resolutely not looking back at 2010 in any other way; onwards, forwards, to happier times!