Stretched

Every once in a while I start blogging again. I’m usually good at keeping it up for a while but inevitably three things happen:

1. I start to lose interest and slow down posting.
2. I lose interest completely and stop posting entirely.
3. I pull an etch-a-sketch on the thing: erase it all and eventually start over.

That is the cycle of Matt blogging, and this is the start of a new cycle.

This past year has been the year of “yes.” Whenever possible, I’ve said yes to basically any request made of me. Yes, like that Jim Carrey movie “Yes Man,” except that it seems to have cost me more than it did him and I didn’t get the girl in the end. Or the big promotion. And I spent more than I probably should have. Not that I regret any of it, it was a good year and I’ve more than a few good stories, a new hobby and a steady volunteer gig out of it. Time to change though.

So what is the next year going to be? I’ve been pondering this for a while now and I think I have decided on it being the year of learning. In the year of yes I took two major courses, WSET Level 2 (intermediate level sommelier training) and an archery course. Both of them were well enjoyed this is the reason that I’ve decided to take more over the coming year.

To that end I’ve been doing my best to come up with a list of things I want to learn, and here is that list so far (in no real order):

1. WSET Level 3, which will see me become a certified sommelier.
2. Conservation and Outdoor Recreation Educaton (C.O.R.E), which will see me get my BC hunter number and gain the ability to purchase a hunting license.
3. Archery, I don’t know that there is another course I can take but I intend to purchase a bow of my own (I’d been using loaner gear while I learned) and join a local range.
4. Motorcycle License, because I’d like to get a motorcycle.
5. Boating safety/radio course, not that I get out boating that much, but I’ve always had it in the back of my mind that I’d like one so I figure I should learn some proper procedures for emergencies and whatnot.

So that’s what I have so far, and the plan is to keep up to date here while I do it. There’ll hopefully be some other stuff too, while the year of yes is over I do have plans to keep trying random new things, but mainly I hope that I can keep up with the writing it all down.

Maybe I should invest in a video camera or something, so I don’t have to write at all.