Look back and Look Forward
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baronessekat2021 To-Do List
Health: Re-committing to getting healthy with the new year. I still want to lose weight not out of vanity but for better movement and breathing ability. My new planner has a goals section for each month and habit tracking. My plan is 15-30 minutes of exercise at least every other day, and at least 64oz. of water a day (if not a full gallon).
* I ended the year 4.5 lbs. more than when I started the year. But lost 6.5 inches overall. So, I will call it kinda even
* Intentional Exercise: only 40 days this year. Barely 10%. Really can do better.
* Water: only hit the 64 oz/day goal 89 times this past year. That’s just shy of 25%. I could have done better
Employment: After spending most of 2020 unemployed, my goal is just to be employed. I started a new job at Thanksgiving and, if I’m being honest, I’m not happy. I spend 85% of my day bored out of my mind, waiting for my boss to call me to do some stupid task for him (push the button on the coffee maker next to his desk, order him a pair of shoes, etc.) and occasional type up a letter. For the job I’m being paid more than I should be, but I honestly feel like my skills are being wasted (and wasting away). So I will continue to look for something, but I will not look a gift horse in the mouth where I am.
* I did find another job but that lasted only one month before they restructured (they were a not-for-profit and funding left). Went back to job from hell. But things have changed. Still not finding it fulfilling but being treated better, been given more responsibility and a new title. Still waiting on the promised salary increase. I will not “actively” look for new but I do keep getting emails from Indeed and Linkedin and will apply if something they send sounds promising.
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. So my goal is to do more of the following:
1. Reading I have several reading challenges again picked out for 2021. But I have found that I tend to gravitate to audiobooks for when I’m in the car and the like, instead of actually reading as much as I used to. So I’m setting a goal of physically reading a minimum of20 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. Crochet I have one blanket started and a couple more planned, so I need to set a goal to work on them. I was reminded how much I actually like doing it when I did a roll the dice crochet along when quarantine first started.
4. Messy Art There is just something cathartic about pouring paint onto something and watching the results unfold. I intend to keep doing so. I may look into putting some up on ebay or etsy to both make a bit of $$ and to get pieces out of my house.
* Reading: finished 77 books – many of them ones I never would have read if it were not for the various challenges I did.
* Photos: very much enjoyed these challenges
* Crochet: didn’t work on anything. Still have several projects I would like to get to.
* Messy Art: I made 62 pieces and a handful of ornaments. I sold a good handful between just posting on my FB wall and putting pieces out at the garage sale I held.
* I did a few SCA gift exchanges and did embroidery for them and really enjoyed the meditative aspect. May find more excuses to do more stitching.
House: Once again looking to slowly make home improvements 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. I also need to see about getting replacement door opener button thingies.
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 so I can maybe get the hospital bed and non-functioning electric wheelchair out and swap the computer desk out of my sister’s room and the Florida 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.
* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Yeah, none of that happened.
Ashley Boxes: They make me happy. I have two already planned and may add another.
* Sent out two. Both recipients seemed very happy and touched to receive them
Social time: As much as current conditions allow, I’d like to keep up the attempt to be social. Be it through Zoom, Facebook video chat, and even social distancing in the back yard.
* Did bi-weekly family Zoom nights and had several in person get-togethers with small groups of people. All are good for my soul
Brain Weasels: goal is to keep working on accepting that my Brain Weasels lie to me.
* Still an on-going battle. They are so easy to listen to.
2022 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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Health: Re-committing to getting healthy with the new year. I still want to lose weight not out of vanity but for better movement and breathing ability. My new planner has a goals section for each month and habit tracking. My plan is 15-30 minutes of exercise at least every other day, and at least 64oz. of water a day (if not a full gallon).
* I ended the year 4.5 lbs. more than when I started the year. But lost 6.5 inches overall. So, I will call it kinda even
* Intentional Exercise: only 40 days this year. Barely 10%. Really can do better.
* Water: only hit the 64 oz/day goal 89 times this past year. That’s just shy of 25%. I could have done better
Employment: After spending most of 2020 unemployed, my goal is just to be employed. I started a new job at Thanksgiving and, if I’m being honest, I’m not happy. I spend 85% of my day bored out of my mind, waiting for my boss to call me to do some stupid task for him (push the button on the coffee maker next to his desk, order him a pair of shoes, etc.) and occasional type up a letter. For the job I’m being paid more than I should be, but I honestly feel like my skills are being wasted (and wasting away). So I will continue to look for something, but I will not look a gift horse in the mouth where I am.
* I did find another job but that lasted only one month before they restructured (they were a not-for-profit and funding left). Went back to job from hell. But things have changed. Still not finding it fulfilling but being treated better, been given more responsibility and a new title. Still waiting on the promised salary increase. I will not “actively” look for new but I do keep getting emails from Indeed and Linkedin and will apply if something they send sounds promising.
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. So my goal is to do more of the following:
1. Reading I have several reading challenges again picked out for 2021. But I have found that I tend to gravitate to audiobooks for when I’m in the car and the like, instead of actually reading as much as I used to. So I’m setting a goal of physically reading a minimum of20 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. Crochet I have one blanket started and a couple more planned, so I need to set a goal to work on them. I was reminded how much I actually like doing it when I did a roll the dice crochet along when quarantine first started.
4. Messy Art There is just something cathartic about pouring paint onto something and watching the results unfold. I intend to keep doing so. I may look into putting some up on ebay or etsy to both make a bit of $$ and to get pieces out of my house.
* Reading: finished 77 books – many of them ones I never would have read if it were not for the various challenges I did.
* Photos: very much enjoyed these challenges
* Crochet: didn’t work on anything. Still have several projects I would like to get to.
* Messy Art: I made 62 pieces and a handful of ornaments. I sold a good handful between just posting on my FB wall and putting pieces out at the garage sale I held.
* I did a few SCA gift exchanges and did embroidery for them and really enjoyed the meditative aspect. May find more excuses to do more stitching.
House: Once again looking to slowly make home improvements 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. I also need to see about getting replacement door opener button thingies.
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 so I can maybe get the hospital bed and non-functioning electric wheelchair out and swap the computer desk out of my sister’s room and the Florida 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.
* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Yeah, none of that happened.
Ashley Boxes: They make me happy. I have two already planned and may add another.
* Sent out two. Both recipients seemed very happy and touched to receive them
Social time: As much as current conditions allow, I’d like to keep up the attempt to be social. Be it through Zoom, Facebook video chat, and even social distancing in the back yard.
* Did bi-weekly family Zoom nights and had several in person get-togethers with small groups of people. All are good for my soul
Brain Weasels: goal is to keep working on accepting that my Brain Weasels lie to me.
* Still an on-going battle. They are so easy to listen to.
2022 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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
