New years

I don't make new years resolution...generally. I make some general things I would like to do... I guess they may be called resolutions...I donno, anyway I am going to type and then we will argue whether these are resolutions or not.

2012

• Has been AMAZING
• I can't believe i am in medical school
• I can't beleive I passed
• I can't believe I am currently a second year medical student, three more years and I will have doctor before my name (I don't think I will be particularly helpful as one, BUT my ID will say i am a doctor)
• I have moved out of my family home, I live alone ( i haven't starved due to lack of motivation to cook)
•  Socially, I am feeling good, feeling rooted in a good community of friends that challenge me academically and spiritually, but allow me to feel accepted and loved
•  Feeling really good about my body
•  I can't beleive I have dreds. I have always known I would do it at some point, but transitioning with braids has made it so much better, I will talk about this later during my official one year blog.

2013

• Obviously number one will be finish second year of medical school without feeling the need to shoot someone
• I really want to go to Zambia after second year (before 3rd year), going to have to plan well and save a pile of cash
• continue collecting books for my library (which will be a more tangible reality hopefully during my Zed visit)
• Two years with my dreds
• And genenerally just continue down this road. Continue growing in my relationship with God. At the end of last year i really felt God challenging me in some areas in my life and I think I will have to deal with it this year. 
• I also want to try and focus on others this year. Maybe find some arena to volunteer in and share my time. 

Another Crisis Averted

Im having a lot of computer crisis' because I am using my laptop a whole lot more during my holidays (my mom has no tv and I don't have any friends in this city).
Anyway, so the DVD region is set according to where you live and you get to switch it 5 times.
I accidently switched it for my final time.
Got depressed because I wouldn't be able to watch anything in the region I ACTUALLY live in.
BUT then I downloaded BlazeDVD
A region free player, I downloaded the free trial which has enabled me to play all the DVD's I have at my disposal.
I am excited to find that it runs beautifully, I had the option of downloading a DVD region killer but I thought that sounded dangerous.
I like BlazeDVD so much that even though the free trial is working perfectly well I am tempted to get the full version (it's under 30 dollars), and make it my default DVD player.

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for the record I ended up getting the full version and I love it.
Don't know why I didn't do that all along.