Getting Ready to Go Home
Tomorrow I’ll be leaving Gainesville, finally, and heading back home. Last year was a pretty dismal holiday experience, so I decided back then on a few things that I would change for 2003.
Call them resolutions if you will.
1. I decided that I was not going to wait until the last minute to buy the Christmas gifts that I needed to get for my various family members and Christmas exchange people.
2. I decided that I was going to either get a job and work most of Christmas break in Gainesville OR stay here as long as possible before heading home to avoid the many stresses and stressed peoples that I associate with the time before this holiday.
3. I decided that I was not going to get sick again this year. The last two or maybe three years in a row I have gotten sick around Christmas time. Last year was especially bad. This past year I feel like I discovered the cause of the sickness (mold poisoning from the HVAC system in my house here,) and I have since taken a number of steps to end that problem.
RESULTS:
So far I seem to have managed to keep all of these resolutions.
1. I have purchased (and even wrapped) nearly all of the presents that I plan to buy this year. I did this the day after Thanksgiving — just as I had planned. I even managed to save enough money to buy exrta gifts for people not originally on my list. Now I only have one more gift I need to buy — for my grandmother.
2. While I did not manage to find a job (I wasn’t looking this semester anyway) I did manage to convince Joy that staying in Gainesville longer was a good idea. This turned out to be quite easy though, because she has tons of things she wants to do here. Now she actually wants to stay a day later than I do.
3. As I write now I am still not sick. It is still only the 21st, so I have another two weeks until I make it through the holidays, but I really think that my problems were caused by the mold in the heating system, so I think I will not get sick. After all, I’ve been living in my room this winter a week and a half longer than I normally do.
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