(Slash – “Plans for 2009″)
- Get back in shape… I’ve gotten more than a little chubby in the last year and I don’t feel as good about myself on that level than I’d like to. I’m not unhealthy, but I’ve definitely eaten a few too many cakes in relation to the number of laps I’ve swum.
- Have a fun marriage… Our first idea was to have a Halloween wedding, but on second thought that might be a little silly? There are so many possibilities, but we’d like this to happen in 2009.
- Publish my first children’s book… Either as a collaboration with a writer, or on my own. It’s the illustration that I want to focus on.
- Finish two more books on body modification… The first one (on male genital mods) is 90% done, and the second one (more general interest) is 10% done. This is an easy goal.
- Launch my new company and get it on its feet… After a year of just doing “whatever”, I’m looking forward to really getting back to work on something big.
- Go back to school… I don’t know for what yet — maybe jewelry (setting stones and such as I’d love to extend my art expression into this medium), maybe welding — but I feel like learning some new technical skills that I can’t easily teach myself from a book and experimentation.
I have other things I’d like to do — get a yurt and work on the Cape Breton Island homestead, buy a catamaran — but I think that my legal situation forces me to live my life a little more conservatively that I’d like, so these may not be reasonable goals for 2009.
On a more “serious” level, we have been thinking more and more about becoming foster parents as well… I’m sure those are feelings amplified because Nefarious has been on vacation for two weeks, but I really enjoy children and feel that I could do a great job at it and it would be really rewarding.
I read over my resolutions from previous years (“get fit” seems to be recurring as I do it, and then lapse, and repeat), and I think I have about a 50% success rate on my resolutions in general. I think I’ve been much more realistic this year.
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I think you both would be amazing as foster parents..You have a way with kids Shannon..Plus it’s a fabulous way to pay it forward
Halloween weddings are the absolute most fun, silly or not!! Seriously explore that option if it appeals to you…it’s your day so have fun with it!
hey, i dont know if you know about it already,but here’s a cool site with ideas for your upcoming wedding: https://offbeatbride.com/
Hey I was married on Halloween, i say go for it. We’ve been happy ever since!
The neighbors across the street from us foster and their most recent charge is a great guy. He’s at our house every day and I like him more than all the other kids in the neighborhood. The one we first met had to go to juvenile detention, had a sweet soul but too much anger to be parented traditionally. I commend you and Caitlin for considering doing this because I cannot think of any situation where loving people are more needed. You guys *are* merrymakers. :)
Coming from someone who once went through foster homes, CAS really does need more loving, happy families such as yours.
You both really do need to keep in mind however, that some children in the system are a handfull and you need to be prepared for that. Also, you are “on call” 24/7 meaning temp children may be dropped with you day or night. It can be very stressful unless you’re given a long term child in need.
Totally off topic from your post, but did you know that both yours and Caitlin’s link to Twwly’s blog is broken. some 404 error?
Hope you have luck with all your new year’s resolutions. I personally, am no good at keeping them, so this year, my resolution is to make no more resolutions…
oops, it is just your link, Caitlin would have to have a link for it to be broke, sorry about that.
I am so with Elizabeth.
If you two can just undue the damage done by one bad parent to one child you can save the world.
Godwin Alert
If only some one else
had raised Hitler.
Your love torwards childrens would be eternal. Man I have read this blog for two years and I love you and your family. The way you threat Ari is phenomenal. Unfortunently not every kid is going to get that much education, activites, and most of all love. So much bad things happening around the world, it is great to read this blog and see that there is love in this world after all. I consider you guys as the carnation of love which is the greatest and the most passable emotion of human beings. It might need tears and blood, but it seems to be worth of it.
Busybee-Ashley’s blog got relocated and I guess Shannon hasn’t updated his links since then.
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