The beginning of the year is always monumental, even though it is just another day, the beginning of the year marks something significant inside.  

The Holidays////.

I think our christmas presents this year very much reflect who we are both from the giving side and the receiving side. Though very cluttered, Casey likes to be clean (aka no germs. none). For his teeth: that means buying a new toothbrush almost every week, not allowing the bristles to touch the counter and using the brush until the bristles are flat. With gift giving I am practical. I don't like buying things we don't need and I have a really hard time getting gifts for people on specific dates. I would rather just buy gifts for people all year around -- when I see something that is really them! This year was no exception. I struggled. I asked for suggestions but I still had a hard time. Casey mentioned he wanted a toothbrush and not just a regular one, but a mechanical crazy warp speed oral-b level nine-thousand or something. To no suprise to him, that is what I got him. Now it feels like every-time you brush your teeth, you have just came back from the dentist :) 

Casey on the other hand is the dreamer, more of the everyday creator. He latches on to things that I mention that I like and keeps them in the back of his mind until it is time for christmas or my birthday. While I am always asking him what he wants, he never asks me. This is something I really appreciate, though I always tease him that the gifts he gets me are really what HE wants, though I know that is only partially true. I think he just remembers the things that I mention I like that he also likes. Every year he gets me something vintage, multiples of the same thing (though different style and color). Last year that meant Polaroid cameras (not just one but 7), this year it was typewriters!

2010////

 “A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” Oscar Wilde 

 I thought this quote is very fitting because for those of you that follow Casey's twitter you know that he stays up many late late nights thinking, sketching and creating -- always with some green tea by his side (and its usually not just "green" tea, it has to be some very special rare kind that is directly imported from a specific tea growng area in Japan, hehe)

The hours between 12 am and 4 am are the hours where he takes just something ordinary and turns it into something amazing.  Almost every day I wake up and find a masterpiece downstairs. This could be something personal like a painting, movie made in After Effects or a Christmas card. 

Casey and I are constantly setting goals and dreaming about the projects that we want to accomplish. This doesn't just happen at the beginning of each year, it is something we are constantly doing. Casey's dreams and aspirations fill his notebooks and if you were to look through the books in chronological order you would see some of those drawings turned into a film, an idea for an art piece or even my christmas present.

I keep my goals in various places, such as my iphone, computer and the sticky notes attached to my monitor. I believe that goals are a very important part of our business and also just for my own well being. It is just like loosing weight. You don't set your goal of loosing 50lbs at the beginning of the year and then never think about it again until it has been accomplished, it is the series of goals like loosing 5lbs every 2 weeks or running 3 miles that really get you going on achieving your overall goal as well as put you in the right mindset.  This year we have set some BHAG  (big hairy audauciaus goals), some 50 pounders, ones that we have to break down into, what seems like a million little pieces, but nonetheless, I can't wait to begin the journey. 2009 was an awesome year, but 2010 is going to be an even more amazing year and I can't wait!