Alright, so already a quarter into the year, I’ve finally decided to tell the world what my New Year’s Resolution was for 2009. 240 Stamps. Actually, it is 20 stamps a month, for the entire year. It might just be my favorite resolution I’ve ever made. It put me into a position where I’m contacting more people, or people more, or differently than I might have before. Thus far, I’ve also kept up with it. Not overly ambitious, but enough fun that I’d stick with it throughout the year.

Now, the 36 Books thing was not a resolution, but a newly stated goal. I’ve been reading like mad. And thus far, about three books a month. If you do the math as I did, that’s 36 for the year. At least I can get that far when I mostly work with words the majority of the time. I must admit that not all of the books are great novels or awesome works of intelligent fiction, there’s some pop fiction, some classics I’ve reread, and then a handful of books I somehow missed so far in life (read: Chronicles of Narnia). I’ve found a sort of power in reading. Partly, it keeps me away from watching mindless television and raptured in a story, or in information by which I’m intrigued. I think I’ve always enjoyed reading, between the end of last year and the beginning of this, I’ve discovered a new love for the hobby. Oh, and in case anyone was keeping track, one of the best places to find classics that you might have missed at some point in your life: Thrift Stores; wow, are they a gold mine or what.

And maybe on account of me reading and writing a good bit more, I’ve seen my spoken vocabulary expand. Often with words that subconsciously creep in. There have even been circumstances where I know a word, I think it might be good in the context, I check, and it is. That might be the most bazaar of all. Especially considering that they weren’t on any AP English Vocabulary exams I ever had.

Also these two goals have given me a surprisingly great use of the web application Daytum. It tracks my count, in graphs and such, which keeps me in line with my goals. Check it.

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