- Increase ability to run, quarter by quarter, until i can run 3 miles at a stretch again.
- So. This was mixed, though mostly a fail due to injury. IT Band injuries, and then a twisted ankle. However, I did run more often, and longer, and did some sprints too.
- Parenting
- weekly game nights with the kids, which we had previously instituted but fell by the wayside
- Nope. not even close.
- take a week’s vacation with the kids and be totally off the whole time
- Well, yes and no. I have not had a full week off with the kids – but I did take a multi-week trip with them and peppered workdays with off days.
- keep up going to their events an after school stuff, covid-permitting
- Done! I am pleased with our growing community participation as covid protections almost entirely strip down.
- connect again with Liam on the puberty talks, which I had been doing but stopped at some point
- No . . . and it’s needed. But I am connecting with him in other ways, every way I can that he’ll let me.
- weekly game nights with the kids, which we had previously instituted but fell by the wayside
- Art/Creativity –
- finish up the screenplay I’ve been working on with friends
- This got pretty far along!
- dust off the novel again
- I did some substantive work on it. And it has a name! And a structure!
- keep painting with watercolors – I am not skilled but it is so fun
- nope, too bad. i wish there were a way to make it easier to get it all out – that’s my big hangup, is the huge work to prep and cleanup.
- pull out the embroidery more often
- nope – though this is partly due to not being able to see well . . .
- sing in a choir again – if mine continues its covid-hiatus, find another
- Yes! Our choir is back up and running like usual and it’s been so great!
- finish up the screenplay I’ve been working on with friends
- Spiritual Wellness –
- regular church attendance again, covid-permitting
- Yes – we are back in the swing
- daily divine hours prayers
- I usually manage one of the stations per day – sometimes two
- read tarot every Monday
- Not quite this often, but i do it frequently enough that i’m happy
- make time for art and poems – I am still noodling how to turn this very vague ambition into a regular reality, but so often sitting with a poem or really looking at gorgeous art is so fulfilling, and I instead often go for iPhone garbage instead
- well, i did take the boys to the van gogh immersive exhibit and loved every bit. and we took opportunities while on the road West to see beautiful art and things.
- meditate daily
- off and on.
- regular church attendance again, covid-permitting
- Cooking Goals –
- we received numerous cookbooks from the Prof’s Grandmother and they are in our storage unit pending the built-ins project. Once we have shelves, I want to go through them and pick some stuff I’ve never made before.
- I’ve done a little of this. More to come. We barely survived the Fall 2022 semester, given the driving we had to do for the kids to get to their stuff, and so my cooking has moved into “easy” vs. experimental. But Spring 2023 is much smoother, so hopeful I’ll get back into this!
- more protein, fewer starches – and more greens of all kinds. Chard, collards, kale, mustard greens, turnip greens – gimme all the greens.
- We’ve really upped the greens for sure. And I don’t view meat proteins as a food to be avoided so much in cooking – more that we have less and leaner cuts.
- we received numerous cookbooks from the Prof’s Grandmother and they are in our storage unit pending the built-ins project. Once we have shelves, I want to go through them and pick some stuff I’ve never made before.
- Travel –
- It’s hard to make a travel goal in the Covid era, but I would enjoy hitting a national park this year
- Uh, I’ll say we managed this one! More more more!
- more camping. I love camping, and I haven’t gone regularly in years because the stress and anxiety of folding the preparations and cleanup into my billable year made it a misery. Trying to shed those inclinations now that I no longer bill time, and I’d like to get back into camping.
- I went camping once. It’s a start!
- It’s hard to make a travel goal in the Covid era, but I would enjoy hitting a national park this year
- Reading
- I’ve read probably forty books this year and just about every single one of them is a murder mystery. I love murder mysteries, but I also love other types of books and I’d like to expand into other genres again.
- So I’m still murder mystery heavy for sure. But I read a few other books too – some psychology books, some historical fiction, some nonfiction. Decent!
- I’ve read probably forty books this year and just about every single one of them is a murder mystery. I love murder mysteries, but I also love other types of books and I’d like to expand into other genres again.
Growing old gracelessly.
