Happy New Year!

Hello, and welcome back... again!

My holiday at home was great fun. It went by far too quick. I met my nephew Kellen, and we really hit it off. I spent Christmas with my family in Charlotte and relaxed in the oddly warm weather. We are a family of gamers, and many times we gathered to play The Settlers of Catan.

I caught up on movies, watching everything I could in the theater and many more via Netflix. I highly recommend the movie Children of Men, which ties with The Departed as my favorite movie of the year. (a note on Children of Men - some friends have said they are not too intrigued by the movie's premise, that in the future women become infertile and humanity doomed, but I advise you to check it out anyway, as the movie is much more than a simple sci-fi premise.)

I saw many of my friends, and went to a rockin' New Years party with some of them at a new bar uptown. I always feel stressed during my visits home to see as many people as possible and usually at the end I feel like I cut some people short. Oh well.

So... what does 2007 hold for me? In the near future I look forward to lots of snowboarding. My job will finish at the end of July, and I already feel a little nervous about leaving this place that has become my home for the last 2 and a half years. I hope to do some traveling and then return home.

I have two resolutions for this new year, and they are quite simple--read more, and write more. By "read more," I mean books and news. By "write more," I mean finish editing my novel (not close to being done yet), write some short stories, and plan and get started on my next novel, hopefully with a better work ethic than I had on the rough draft of Westwater.