New Years Eve and New Year's Resolutions

First of all, I hope everyone had a safe, but fun filled, New Year's Eve.  I had a blast.  The cover band I play in, ROCKTIMUS PRIME, played at Gerstle's, and we packed the place.  I think we played well.  We made the night special by dressing up a little more than normal.  I was rocking slacks, a tie, and a nice button-up dress shirt.  A good friend of ours from the band Bolt Action Thrill, Dustin, came out and partied with us.  He got up and sang three songs and played guitar on another.

I don't know if I am a fan of playing NYE or not.  I saw some crazy stuff.  Like a dumb drunk bumblebee looking bitch falling onto the stage, and then just sitting there thinking it was funny.  The winner for most amazing drunken act was the really obliterated guy that was outside Gerstle's pissing his pants.  Like full on, pants up, pee running down the legs, pissing himself.  I was probably one of maybe four sober people in the bar so I think me and Justin were the only ones that noticed it... and that was even with me yelling "Hey! Look at that guy pissing himself... what a douche-bag!!" at the top of my lungs.

SO, yeah, it's that time of year again.  Time to make some resolutions to bring about some changes to Chadville.  I usually type them up and put them on the fridge, within a few months the paper gets old and is either lost or thrown  away.  So this year I am going to post them here in my blog which I can't throw away and I can keep tabs on how good or awful I am doing.   Here we go... my list-o-resolutions for TwentyTen.

1. Stay Sober This is always my first, and most important resolution every year since I got clean.  Even going on four years sober I still have good and bad days.  Mainly good days.  I have slacked off lately at going to meetings.  I need to get better about that in the year of the robot uprising.

2. Get my fat ass into shape And by in shape I don't mean round.  I need to lose about 20 to 30 pounds of fat.  I wouldn't remind replacing it with muscle.  That will come with time.  I know I can't wake up tomorrow and be in shape and fit.  I am going to start by first changing my diet.  I eat out WAY too much.  So I am going to start cooking more at home and eating more often, i tend to only eat one maybe two meals a day and I eat way too much at those meals.  So yeah, hopefully a heather me by the end of 2010

3. Keep playing as much music as possible I am very lucky to play with all the different groups that I jam with.  I play bass in ROCKTIMUS PRIME, I sit in a lot playing bass with Judge Angus, and I am a house band called For Lack Of A Better Name.  My main focus right now of the bands is RP, but I will play with the other bands whenever I am needed.  With ROCKTIMUS I really want to step things up to a new level.  We won Best Cover Band In Louisville from the Leo last year.  I really want to step up our stage show and learn more tunes too.  I am going to be upgrading my gear this year too, I want to make some changed to my main 5 string bass, like changing out the pickups and changing the bridge to a nicer one.

4. Get more organized  I really need to get better about this.  In all aspect of my life.  Work and home.  My shop gets messy and I have a hard time finding stuff, which slows me down, when I am working slower I am making less money, always a bad thing.   I tend to not clean my apartment as much as it should be cleaned.  I am also a packrat and I have mounds of junk that just needs to be tossed.  I have already started working on cleaning up my apartment and next I will start cleaning up work.  I am going to find a way to keep track of my billing paperwork better and my bills at home better too.

5. Pay down my debt I kind of got screwed over in 09 by my ex girlfriend Kelly.  I bought her a laptop, which cost a pretty penny, and she got sick for a few months.  While she was sick and not working I was paying more than my fair share of everything.   We were living off my salary at work and credit cards.  Well she bounced and I am stuck with the debt.  This year I plan on tackling a bunch of that debt and hopefully pay a lot of it off.

6. Have more fun! Ever since Kelly and I broke up I feel like I have become a hermit.  I hardly ever go out unless I am playing.  I need to start going out more and checking out friends bands. Hell, even just going to the movies with friends or hitting up a bar to meet up with people would be nice.  I tend to stay home.  This is going to change.

So there you go... the things I plan on working on for 2010.