Weekend Update

I wouldn’t exactly call my weekend incredibly productive, but I did get some things done. I did my federal taxes and it looks like I am due a pretty nice chunk of cash. Now that I am working and actually have income, I’m feeling a little bit better about my financial state.

Beyond the money scope, I’m getting my life in order. It’s all a matter of making choices; maybe it will be right, maybe wrong, but the important part is to make the choice. I’m almost twenty-six, and I’m thinking about where I want to be when I’m thirty and designing a plan that will take me there.

As for where I want to be, I’ve made some changes in my thoughts within the last few months. I’d like not to be in New Jersey, and right now the Washington, D.C. metro area or Baltimore metro area are my ideal locations. I will be working in a job that will allow me to work creatively with computers, to have a side-job of working with a marching band or some other musical group, and to be making enough money to secure my future and the education of future children.

Of course, I can change my mind at any time, and that’s all a part of being human. But for now, that’s the goal.

I’ll probably catch a lot of criticism and open myself up for nasty emails being sent around, but I’d like to be married by the time I’m thirty or at least heading in that direction.

Now that I’m pretty clear on my goals, I am working on a plan to get me there. In immediate terms, I plan to keep working in New Jersey for a bit more while making contacts and networking with people in the D.C. and Baltimore areas as much as I can.

Of course, I don’t have to stick with these goals just becaise I am publishing them here. Any number of things can occur in my life that would allow me to decide to change my mind. But the thing is that I’m not going to just sit around waiting for things to happen or for decisions to be made for me. I kind of like the thought of controlling my own future.