The annual look back and look forward

[baronessekat]

2013 To Do list

Employment - I like it there. Let's try for a full year.
*I made it a year. Still like it

Health/Weight-
1. I have another 20 or so pounds to go for my goal.
*I gained and lost the same 15-18 pounds throughout the year. I'm back to where I was at the beginning of last year so I call it a fail
2. I would also like to try to get myself back into the routine of at least twice a week to the gym (not including my session with the trainer). Start with twice a week and see if maybe I can get back up to three or four times.
*I was good for a while. Then Pennsic happened and I didn't keep up. Hence the whole weight thing
3. Stay on top of the follow-ups regarding some minor issues I have.
*The follow ups stopped when the Doctor said "unless there is some significant change let's just monitor for now"

Great Recipe Experiment 2013 - I think I will keep with the goal of 12 new recipes a year. Maybe this year I can actually do it.
* I got to 23. So success

Garage- I'm going to give up the idea of ever being able to park in the garage. However, the goal is to keep it from turning back into the death trap is had been. Maybe I can work on getting shelving units and start really organizing what's in there.
*Shelving units did not happen. Organization did not happen. Nothing really changed. Fail

House-
1. Fix/repair shed and tear out fence and pull up the part that has fallen and starting to get overgrown.
*Nope
2. Strip and repaint the hall way.
* Nope, but I did pick out a color and actually got the painting tools so it's a start
3. try to stay on top of the cleaning or at least invite people over once a month to 6 weeks to make sure I keep it reasonable.
*Sorta. Not as much as I would like, but more that I actually expected.
4. continue with the garden, maybe expand
*I continued the garden. Had a green bean fail due to rabbits and deer, but one Roma Tomato plant went insane. I did not manage to expand the garden

Arts and Crafts - keep working on crochet projects at they make me happy. Maybe try to make the annual holiday ornament BEFORE Christmas.
*I started out good and got several hats done. But then it all fizzled. And does Christmas Eve count for getting the holiday ornament done before Christmas?

Frame of mind - I want to get my glad game back. I need to remind myself daily that something good does happen daily. And I need to work on stopping the beating myself up.
*Did good up until Pennsic. Then fell out of the habit. Did a little better about beating myself up but it still happened on a more than infrequent manner

Communication try to work more on better communicating my wants/needs/desires.
*I don't think I did good at all. Mostly when I feel the need to express, I still listened to the Gremlin

2014 To-Do List

Employment - I like it there. Let's try for a 2 years.

Health/Weight-
1. I have another 20 or so pounds to go for my goal so I'm sticking to that as a goal
2. I need to get back to the gym for things other than classes. However, if I can make Tuesday morning Yoga and Thursday evening Aquafit weekly I will consider that a win. But hitting the machines at least once a week would be good

Great Recipe Experiment 2014 - I have a lot of recipes marked on either Pintrest or in the new cookbook I got for Christmas so I'm going to bump the goal up to 18 this year.

Garage- The ongoing battle to make it safe will continue. Wonder if I can get the girls to come over one or twice over the summer and go through their things and purge.

House-
1. Fix/repair shed and tear out fence and pull up the part that has fallen and starting to get overgrown. Sis and I have discussed this and the plan is to actually do something over Memorial Day weekend
2. Strip and repaint the hall way.
3. try to stay on top of the cleaning or at least invite people over once a month to 6 weeks to make sure I keep it reasonable.
4. continue with the garden, maybe expand

Arts and Crafts - I'd like to actually finish the green bunny blanket that has been in progress for YEARS. I'd like to learn how to make soap. Maybe try one or two other things I've seen on Pintrest

Frame of mind- I want to get my glad game back. Maybe I need to think of doing something weekly instead of daily. That way it doesn't feel like such a failure if I miss/stop for some reason and then try to resume.

Writing A bunch of us want to get back to writing so we're going to try the weekly topic thing again.

Communication Continue to try and work more on better communicating my wants/needs/desires.

Comments

[emt-hawk.livejournal.com]

If you want, you can leave your personal beatings to me. I'll be glad to chastise you for all your failings on a daily basis.

You'll hear back from me regarding this next year. That's how often I think you need to be chastised. That is to say, not at all.

--H

[sabriel-0405.livejournal.com]

Great goals! It's making me think harder about mine.