New Year's Resolution

Football season is coming to an end and with that a feeling of uneasiness takes hold. What am I to do now with my free time?

I realize that many Americans are dealing with this issue, but you see I feel as though I am a special case study. I moved away from everything I know back in August, and up until now, football is what has kept me from feeling so blank. By this time next week, I will have no rooting interest and more importantly no plans for traveling to see any games. This means more time here, where my home has been for almost six months now, except now I can’t avoid the fact that Saturday and Sunday will not be self scheduled for a 12:30 and 3:30 reunion to my old life. It is like getting use to being home after a cruise, there is no itinerary placed under your door in the morning telling you what the day holds, I, like a returned passenger with a hangover, am now forced to fill my weekends with activities.
It is not that I am nervous as much as I am uncertain. I hate not having a plan, and for me not knowing where to begin to come up with a plan is most frustrating. Sure there are people I have met up here, the people I work with and then there are some members of my family up here, but lets be honest, weekends are not suppose to be about work and family while wonderful can be suffocating. I need to take up a new hobby or activity, what straight man says this? I need to get a girlfriend, well when you need to, you never get anyone you really want. I am stuck floating around with my free time hoping to land on something solid. I am not a patient person, but I know that forcing the issue is not the answer. So my new years resolution for 2009 is to be more patient, not with other people (though some might say I should do that too), but with myself and my goals for the future. I want to start by not being so goal oriented, or perhaps said a better way, not force myself to create so many goals just to offset my own impatient ways. I think people like me turn every little thing into a goal/timetable that way we can show ourselves progress. In 2009, I am confident that I am making progress even when there hasn’t been an adjustment on my personal scoreboard.