To Do.

As it blizzards outside, I am rethinking my new year's resolutions. Originally, like every previous year, I said that I wanted to exercise more, lose weight, blah blah blah, but now I'm editing. There are other things that I want to accomplish that are probably more important than how my clothes fit. And anyway, if I keep myself busy doing these things, I will spend less time eating all of the chocolate that people cruelly gave us for Christmas.

1) finish knitting my sweater. (I started it 2 years ago!) I will probably never have more free-time in my life, and the weather here certainly is conducive to staying indoors.

2) learn more Japanese. I am now visiting a woman in town once a week to work on my Japanese. Her English is really good, so we mostly end up bullshitting, in English, but having a set day to talk about Japanese, even for 30 minutes, makes me feel more responsible.

3) get my English classes started. I am going to be renting out a classroom in town two days a week to hold English conversation classes, but I'm procrastinating. The problem is advertising myself. It's ridiculously expensive to do it in the newspaper, so I'm relying on our radio show plugs and word-of-mouth. It costs money to rent the rooms, so I want to make sure I have enough people there to at least pay for the rent. But I am excited to start. I really miss teaching, and I'll finally have an excuse to wear all the teacher-clothes I packed!

Maybe #4 should be blogging more frequently, but I'd like to keep my list at 3 things. It is the magic number after all.