Another year of life gone by.  Has it been a good one?  Did I do it right?  Will I look back in the future and say, “yeah, that was a good year”?  I think so.  Let’s see what happened over this year… but first!  New Years resolutions.

For 2010, I’m not resolving to do much cause I’ve already got so many other things on my list. But two additions are these:
1.) I resolve to play at least one round of golf.  Dianne and I went to a golfing range in LA and it was a lot of fun, so I’d like to try it out on the real deal.
2.) Eat one salad item ever day, every other week.  This means, the first week, I don’t have to, but the next week, I have to have a salad every day for that week.  Then the next week I don’t have to but still can if I want.  The reason I’m doing this is because the food experiment I did last year was not enough.  The affects of it lasted a few months and then I started eating less veges again.  I don’t think I eat unhealthily, but it’s always good to keep things like this in check before a problem actually arises.  So, it’s a resolution.

As for last year, I started out the year in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; not a bad place to start it out.  I had many adventures all over southeast Asia, and even got some snowboarding in when I came home in Tahoe, Park City, and others.  Saw some great bands at both Austin South by Southwest and Austin City Limits in October; not to mention the mudfest ACL became.  I journeyed to Australia to see what’s downunder and saw a croc jump up out of the water.  I met some fun people and dated some very interesting women.  I started a company called Happy Ugg Boots with one of them. I am now in what is the longest serious relationship I’ve had for quite some time: over 3 months now! with a girl named Rosario who I met a few years back at a friends party.  She’s a lot of fun to hang around.

I went to Vegas several times, twice with Rosario and saw some amazing Circ de Soleil shows.  As far as gambling goes, I think I evened out over the year, so no big money there.  I did a show on stage called Mortified: two nights the first time and once in the Alamo Ritz theater downtown, which was awesome! Even got a tv spot live on the Austin Eye.

I only worked 30 weeks out of the year for my travel job which left a lot of time open to travel for fun, hang with friends, and visit my parents which I’ve done a lot of this year; plus I got to see my grandma, aunt and uncles over Christmas which was great!  I’ll prolly have to work more in 2010 though as the paycheck for 30 weeks is not quite up to par for my bank account.  Done a lot of wakeboarding this year and learned how to switch goofy and do an air 180.

Saw some plays in the first half of the year and got to know some of the theatre crowd in Austin but not nearly well enough.  Would love to do more with them.  Had visitors come in from out of town, including Didi from Holland, and Law from LA who was here for SXSW and the documentary he worked on along with three brothers won best overall!  Which is awesome!  I donated blood for the first time EVER and will continue to do it once a quarter, but not in winter.  Found out my blood type is A+, which means I shouldn’t eat much red meat and that’s fine by me, not a steak man.

My parents are doing well in their new house and were able to sell the old one this year.  So having all that new money meant a shopping spree of new furniture and other items.  Guess who has two thumbs and gets the old furniture.  THIS GUY!  My brother and his family are also doing well.  Joshua will be around more in 2010 to see Katrina grow up (they’re poddy training right now), and Vaiva’s got a little boy in the oven.  Timer goes off in a few weeks!

I love Austin and my friends here, but still miss my LA friends.  No man knows any greater friends then those.  I always knew I had found some diamonds in the rough and am often jealous of their activities together and longing to join them… then I go rock climbing and try to be happy with where I am at, or think of ways to make trips over.

As far as status quo, both houses are holding up and retain tenants, although this next year will be a big change for the northern house as I’m going to start renting it per room.  Hope that works out, otherwise I’m hosed.  So here’s to the New Year, may it not be a year of hosing!