Awake

It's a New Year

The impact of any particular date on the calendar is determined by one's beliefs about that date, as subtle, ingrained, or overt they might be. For me, January 1st sounded like the slamming of a book followed by a defiant, "Well, then!" to which my sheepish response was, "I guess it's time to get down to business."

I don't know who slammed the book (maybe it was God) or who said "Well, then!" (maybe it was me) but I am quite convinced that it truly is time to get down to business and I'm quite glad of the turning of the calendar in this instance and its book-end effect on my consciousness.

I've moved on, moved down, moved far enough along to finally realize I've got a new life to attend to, one involving an odd mix of setting and characters, a play that no one would believe without knowing me, of course. A massage therapist and former web developer who moved to southern Oregon to start her practice and realized quickly that to pay the bills the former web developer would have to become a formal web developer and thus Sleepyhead City Web Works LLC was born.

It's January 2nd. I've finally restored my laptop to general health and am installing the last critical bits I need to use it as a dynamic web server. It's still sort of a holiday at the salon (very very slow today) and I'm at a neighborhood coffee shop, chicken burrito down the hatch and a half-inch of Mexican mocha remaining in the glass mug they gave me "for here." I'm about 2 minutes away from getting PHP 5 installed and then I'll be ready to "get down to business." Again.

Tonight is chair massage at the Ashland Family YMCA. The new year also brings a new day at the 'Y'. I'll be there every week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 5-7. It's one of my new favorite places to be and now with an employee benefit free membership, part of "getting down to business" will include a bit of fitness as well.

Now to get down to it. Persevere, commit, excel. Those will be the words for this year. My heart swells with the prospect of claiming those words and seeing them transform into realities of character and action.

Happy New Year.