Tae Yoon: Life from 2006-2021

happy new year.

for the first time in my life, i worked on new year's eve. i've always had some sort of job since i was sixteen but i have never worked on a new year's eve. i usually hate new year's eve because everything about the celebratory process is dumb and annoying. i tend to just stay at home and avoid the drunken crowds and chaos in nyc. and good luck on getting home because finding a cab home is impossible since everyone is out.

suffice it to say before i started my shift last night, i was really dreading it. i had to work last night at my second job, which is just one day a week at a bar in the east village. the night was pretty uneventful except for when i had to tell two people they couldn't come in because they were already wasted---i held down my ground and was scared shitless but made it happen. anyway working at a nyc bar on new year's eve really made me realize how much i appreciate the night. i usually never go out on nye but i'm adamant on making next year's the best one i've ever had---no pressure though.

as for other goals i have for the new year (i refuse to call them resolutions because then i won't stick to them), i would like to accomplish the following:

• for judy, stop leaving the toilet seat up
• know that i am living up to my potential 100%
• make better choices in life
• know that what i want is what i should focus on and no bullshit will be tolerated
• stop procrastinating on returning phone calls, emails, texts and any other correspondence
• take risks in my love life (which i already have more than once in the past week!)

i also will not compromise when it comes to dating. either two people have a mutual desire to pursue something further or they don't---problem solved. i won't waste my time focusing on something that could be when i have a feeling from the get-go that it's not going to work out. living with that rule just simplifies so many things and allows me to have a different outlook on it all, i love it.

one last thing i'll mention about the night is that i was able to find a cab pretty fast after i finished work around 3am. actually getting a cab on nye in the east village really made me think and it gave me the hope that perhaps this new year and decade is going to be okay...

i hope everyone else had a great nye.