2014 - Year in Review

It was the best of years.  It was the worst of years.

The Good: Wonderful marriage to my beloved.  Washington D.C. Visits to Atlanta. Visit to Miami Beach.  Visit to Florida Keys.  Second visit to miami beach.  Visit to New Orleans.  Visit to Biltmore.  Visit to Charlston. Elaynia.  All going well with family visit. AirBnB.  Goals met.  French video store.  Red Tower.  Guardians of the Galaxy.  Double Dates w. Wayne and Helen.  Weekly video games w Greg.  Kilroy stories. Kilroy Godhood.  Overcoming Class of Doom. Publishing GMVZ. Publishing many of my stories. Team B. Walking together on the nature trail. Homeland. Game of Thrones.  Picking a starter city.

The Bad: The possession of Petunia. Soggy Paper Plate.   Facebook.  2014 Election. Grammar Nazi. Time to find job B. Wells drama.  The world in general.

The Ugly: City on a shelf.  Tito.  The Phantom of the Lobby.  Tossing Grenades at Windmills Podcast numbers. City of Hope.

Goals for 2014.

Tom
1.  Get to 250 lbs and stay there. - A-. Finally.
2. Do 8 Belly Dancing Classes with Julia.  Changed this to walking weekly since this proved untenable. A-.
3. Finish "I, Ashera" poem.  Bad poetry is awful.  It just is.  This will be a multi year project but I've made a good dent.  B+
4. Get at least 1 of Minor PMP/Minor BA Cert/Scrum Cert.  Got TWO.  A+
5. Project Schlurp.   A+.

Julia
1. Maintain A's in MLS.  A.
2. If no full time job, take 2 classes each semester. A.
3. Maintain food journal 82%. A-
4. Project Meep. A+
5.Get a job or Make Red Anvil Tagging work. A

Marriage
1. Date night 1/week. A
2. Continue communicating properly. A-
3. Trip 1/month A-
4. Reach Reserve Level 4. A
5. Teach Tom to Cook. C
6. Successfully do move A

Much Happening

It has been an eventful couple of weeks.  Three weeks ago we had a delightful thanksgiving  dinner with Julia's parents and then spent Saturday and Sunday with Mom and Skip.  We spent the last weekend in Charlotte in November and will be spending  every weekend in Atlanta or traveling  in December.   That is a lot of driving.

A lot of monumental  decisions  have been made, the two biggest  of which are that Skip is now working  for Google and they are moving  to San Francisco.  Julia  and I have decided  to spend six months  starting  in Feb to focus our job search in Miami.  The odds of us moving  there are very high, especially  since my current  contract will be wrapping  up around  July.

We are spending  time with each other, with friends  and with family.   There has been such drama on Facebook  this year, particularly  with Petunia and Soggy  Paper Plate that I am deleting  my facebook  account,  letting it reset for 90 days and starting  a new one in April.

Complications  have included a difficult  to replace headlight on my Prius, North Carolina's bizarre and arcane registration  and title language, my missing phone (now replaced and on which I write this) and one of Julia's  teachers having  an unnatural  and obsessive  standard of grammar  that I have never encountered.   We got the paper done, we are waiting  to see how the paper will be received  but I am optimistic.

Julia  is now enjoying  her vacation  and I am doing  moderately  well  at my job.  Julia  will be doing  a lot of baking, and I am preparing Grenademan vs the Zombies and Forever West for sale on Amazon as ebooks.