New Year, New Chest

My Top surgery is a little over five days away. Time for some new years resolutions to ring in 08.

1) Call my (Berkeley) mother.

2) Lift 2-3 times per week.

3) Tell and show the people who I love that I love them.

4) Walk for a few hours 3-4 times per week, and start training for Half Dome in March once my chest has healed enough.

5) Help out with the service trip to New Orleans and try to make inroads to move there after graduation.

6) Reach out to the family members who have been supportive to me. Let go of those who don't and won't respect me for who I am. It's been way too painful trying to be in "relationship"
with people who treat me like an alien and only communicate with me because I'm a blood relative. I don't have to save face for the sake of the family because no matter what I do my parents have made it obvious that they're pretty disgusted with me (esp. my mom) and would have nothing to do with me if I hadn't been born their daughter. I don't think I'll be visiting them in California for a long while.

7) Legally change my name and gender.

8) Work music back into my life.

9) Try to find other service opportunities in the Boston Area (maybe volunteer at the Living Center or Cambridge Cares).

10) Get my social life back.

11) Take time out to meditate and be.