Look back and Look forward
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baronessekat2022 To-Do List
HEALTH: Re-committing to getting healthy with the new year.
1. Lose weight for better movement and breathing ability.
2. Some form of intentional exercise at least every other day,
3. Do better about eating “real meals” more.
4. Hit my step goal of 8k daily (this does not count as intentional exercise)
5. Drink at least 64oz. of water a day (if not a full gallon).
6. I also am going to start tracking my sleep, take note of high pain days and moods to see what kind of trends I am experiencing
• Yeah, not so much. I did track my sleep and I averaged almost 7 hours a night. But intentional exercise, weight loss, real meals, water each day even real meals not very good.
Hobbies and Activities (not exercise or SCA related: I am still hoping to break my tendency to sit in my chair in front of the TV playing stupid games on my phone or tablet. Therefore, my goal is to do more of the following:
1. Reading: I have several reading challenges again picked out for 2022. But I have found that I tend to gravitate to audiobooks for when I’m in the car and the like, instead of physically reading as much as I used to. So, I’m setting a goal of physically reading a minimum of 20 minutes daily.
2. Photos: I have had fun the last couple years doing different “photo a day” challenges so I intend to keep that up.
3. Creativity: I have found that I feel better when I am being creative. My mental health suffers if I go to long, so I am going to try to make sure to do something creative at least every couple of days.
• I did better here. 82 books completed. However, physical reading was not as regular as I would have liked. I did the photo a day. I didn’t get as much creative work done as I would have liked.
SCA: Things are starting to slowly open back up, so my goals are:
1. Tackle the backlog scroll list. I am going to try to get a backlog done at least every other month (if not sooner)
2. Work on my research projects. I have all the info for a paper that just needs to be written and the material to make another project based on images in manuscripts.
3. Scroll Cases – I have too much cardboard in my garage that needs to be converted into cases
4. Do what I can to help my students achieve their SCA goals and dreams.
• I was inducted into the Order of the Laurel. However, the actual goals that I set… not so much.
House: Once again slowly make the home improvements I didn’t do last year, so here’s the goals
1. Garage: I really, really, really need to get the garage resorted, stuff out and gone. Need to reach out to people who have stuff stored in there to see if they still want the stuff and if so, when can they come get it.
2. Dining Room: I want to replace the ancient and ugly curtains and to maybe reupholster the chairs. I have a paint color picked out but that’s going to be a while before that happens.
3. Family Room: I have the paint picked out. I want to paint the very dated paneling. After that I want to get the highboy dresser up out of the basement, refinished as needed and use it to replace the dead tv that is currently acting as a stand for the new tv.
4. Living Room: come summer, I want to take the curtains in the living room down and paint out the bay window area. I also want to use the same color to paint the one wall in the stairwell and the casement for the doorway between the living room and dining room.
5. Florida Room: get back to working to clean up and organize the room
6. Upstairs Hall: I’d like to paint the walls (I have plenty of paint left from painting the living room in 2020) and pull out the orange rug from hell and refinish the floor like I did on the stairs.
• None of this was accomplished
Ashley Boxes: They make me and others happy.
• Two Advent and 1 12-Days of Christmas sent out. Seemed well received.
Social time: As much as current conditions allow; I’d like to keep up the attempt to be social. Maybe change one of the Family Zoom dinners each month to a host folks over for games, chatting, movies
• Hosted a couple get togethers. The one for Christmas got cancelled due to Mother Nature dumping a Blizzard on us for the weekend.
Brain Weasels: goal is to keep working on accepting that my Brain Weasels lie to me and that I have people who like and love me, that I am not alone, worthless and a waste of space.
• I tried on this one. And there were several times where friends gave me the mental, emotional, financial support that I needed this year. I do need to work on this more.
2023To-Do List
HEALTH: Re-committing to getting healthy with the new year. I am not going to itemize things here. I just need to get healthier.
Hobbies and Activities (not exercise or SCA related: I am still hoping to break my tendency to sit in my chair in front of the TV playing stupid games on my phone. Therefore, my goal is to do more of the following:
1. Reading: I have several reading challenges again picked out for 2023. Would like to tackle more of the physical books I already own.
2. Photos: I have had fun the last couple years doing different “photo a day” challenges so I intend to keep that up.
3. Creativity: I have found that I feel better when I am being creative. My mental health suffers if I go to long, so I am going to try to make sure to do something creative at least every couple of days.
SCA:
1. Tackle the backlog scroll list.
2. Work on my research projects. I have all the info for a paper that just needs to be written and the material to make another project based on images in manuscripts.
3. Scroll Cases – I have too much cardboard in my garage that needs to be converted into cases
4. Do what I can to help my students achieve their SCA goals and dreams.
House:
I am finding that my mental health is being affected by my surroundings. So my goal is to start working on decluttering, cleaning and sprucing up my surroundings
Ashley Boxes: They make me and others happy.
Social time: As much as current conditions allow; I’d like to keep up the attempt to be social. Maybe change one of the Family Zoom dinners each month to a host folks over for games, chatting, movies<
New Employment The continued emotional stress is getting to me. By the end of 2023 I MUST find new employment. I am going to be a lot more proactive about getting out. I believe that this will be a big help with me mental well-being.
HEALTH: Re-committing to getting healthy with the new year.
1. Lose weight for better movement and breathing ability.
2. Some form of intentional exercise at least every other day,
3. Do better about eating “real meals” more.
4. Hit my step goal of 8k daily (this does not count as intentional exercise)
5. Drink at least 64oz. of water a day (if not a full gallon).
6. I also am going to start tracking my sleep, take note of high pain days and moods to see what kind of trends I am experiencing
• Yeah, not so much. I did track my sleep and I averaged almost 7 hours a night. But intentional exercise, weight loss, real meals, water each day even real meals not very good.
Hobbies and Activities (not exercise or SCA related: I am still hoping to break my tendency to sit in my chair in front of the TV playing stupid games on my phone or tablet. Therefore, my goal is to do more of the following:
1. Reading: I have several reading challenges again picked out for 2022. But I have found that I tend to gravitate to audiobooks for when I’m in the car and the like, instead of physically reading as much as I used to. So, I’m setting a goal of physically reading a minimum of 20 minutes daily.
2. Photos: I have had fun the last couple years doing different “photo a day” challenges so I intend to keep that up.
3. Creativity: I have found that I feel better when I am being creative. My mental health suffers if I go to long, so I am going to try to make sure to do something creative at least every couple of days.
• I did better here. 82 books completed. However, physical reading was not as regular as I would have liked. I did the photo a day. I didn’t get as much creative work done as I would have liked.
SCA: Things are starting to slowly open back up, so my goals are:
1. Tackle the backlog scroll list. I am going to try to get a backlog done at least every other month (if not sooner)
2. Work on my research projects. I have all the info for a paper that just needs to be written and the material to make another project based on images in manuscripts.
3. Scroll Cases – I have too much cardboard in my garage that needs to be converted into cases
4. Do what I can to help my students achieve their SCA goals and dreams.
• I was inducted into the Order of the Laurel. However, the actual goals that I set… not so much.
House: Once again slowly make the home improvements I didn’t do last year, so here’s the goals
1. Garage: I really, really, really need to get the garage resorted, stuff out and gone. Need to reach out to people who have stuff stored in there to see if they still want the stuff and if so, when can they come get it.
2. Dining Room: I want to replace the ancient and ugly curtains and to maybe reupholster the chairs. I have a paint color picked out but that’s going to be a while before that happens.
3. Family Room: I have the paint picked out. I want to paint the very dated paneling. After that I want to get the highboy dresser up out of the basement, refinished as needed and use it to replace the dead tv that is currently acting as a stand for the new tv.
4. Living Room: come summer, I want to take the curtains in the living room down and paint out the bay window area. I also want to use the same color to paint the one wall in the stairwell and the casement for the doorway between the living room and dining room.
5. Florida Room: get back to working to clean up and organize the room
6. Upstairs Hall: I’d like to paint the walls (I have plenty of paint left from painting the living room in 2020) and pull out the orange rug from hell and refinish the floor like I did on the stairs.
• None of this was accomplished
Ashley Boxes: They make me and others happy.
• Two Advent and 1 12-Days of Christmas sent out. Seemed well received.
Social time: As much as current conditions allow; I’d like to keep up the attempt to be social. Maybe change one of the Family Zoom dinners each month to a host folks over for games, chatting, movies
• Hosted a couple get togethers. The one for Christmas got cancelled due to Mother Nature dumping a Blizzard on us for the weekend.
Brain Weasels: goal is to keep working on accepting that my Brain Weasels lie to me and that I have people who like and love me, that I am not alone, worthless and a waste of space.
• I tried on this one. And there were several times where friends gave me the mental, emotional, financial support that I needed this year. I do need to work on this more.
2023To-Do List
HEALTH: Re-committing to getting healthy with the new year. I am not going to itemize things here. I just need to get healthier.
Hobbies and Activities (not exercise or SCA related: I am still hoping to break my tendency to sit in my chair in front of the TV playing stupid games on my phone. Therefore, my goal is to do more of the following:
1. Reading: I have several reading challenges again picked out for 2023. Would like to tackle more of the physical books I already own.
2. Photos: I have had fun the last couple years doing different “photo a day” challenges so I intend to keep that up.
3. Creativity: I have found that I feel better when I am being creative. My mental health suffers if I go to long, so I am going to try to make sure to do something creative at least every couple of days.
SCA:
1. Tackle the backlog scroll list.
2. Work on my research projects. I have all the info for a paper that just needs to be written and the material to make another project based on images in manuscripts.
3. Scroll Cases – I have too much cardboard in my garage that needs to be converted into cases
4. Do what I can to help my students achieve their SCA goals and dreams.
House:
I am finding that my mental health is being affected by my surroundings. So my goal is to start working on decluttering, cleaning and sprucing up my surroundings
Ashley Boxes: They make me and others happy.
Social time: As much as current conditions allow; I’d like to keep up the attempt to be social. Maybe change one of the Family Zoom dinners each month to a host folks over for games, chatting, movies<
New Employment The continued emotional stress is getting to me. By the end of 2023 I MUST find new employment. I am going to be a lot more proactive about getting out. I believe that this will be a big help with me mental well-being.
