Well, hello 2012! Two weeks in, already?

Actually, time is not flying…in fact, on Saturday night when I skyped with my parents and I realized that it was only two weeks into the year,I started crying.  I really did…actually started crying.  This may be a sign of me being emotionally unhinged.  Or it may be a sign of how bad the year has been so far…and what it looks like ahead (oh, did I tell you I have specially set murder trials for the next three months?).

When I made the move here and upended my life in 2009, I had literally never been happier.  Over the last year that’s shifted some (a lot).  It started shifting with my health problems and declining athletic performance in the end of 2010, and rapidly plummeted with increased job stress (see e.g. and e.g.).  And I’m realizing that I need to figure out a way to get out out of this burned out funk.

It is pretty clear that I’m not happy with my life right now; but what is unfortunately not clear, is how to make myself happy.

So, I have some simple goals for the year ahead:

1. Get back my peace and happiness…which really requires figuring out what I want in my life and then going after it.
2. Figure out who I want to be…and become it.
3. Blog more…if I want to and if it helps.

Ok, they are super lofty goals.  And  really amorphous.  And, really go against all the goal setting rules.  But, I need a change.  But, I’m not sure what the change needs to be yet–just that a change is needed.  So, I guess this year is about figuring me and my life out.

Game on.