New Year, New Goals, New Everything...
Jan. 3rd, 2017 10:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aldersprigIt's a new year! It's an arbitrary marker, of course, but I find I like arbitrary markers. I like resolutions. I like clean slates.
(This is starting to sound like the piece of fiction I wrote for January-by-the-numbers Day One).
I'm going to Do Things in 2017. Lots of things. Well, okay. I'm going to do a reasonable number of things.
I'm going to get my 365-day streak in 4theWords, because when you do that, you get fancy wings. I'm at 50-something now. I can do that.
Cal & I started our new project, so that's a daily writing goal for me - which is conveniently just about a streak-making wordcount on 4thWords.
There's other writing, of course: Edally and the novella thing, Patreon and all the little long-running stories here, the January By The Numbers posts (and so on and so on and so on and...)
I'm back on the weight-loss wagon, because I really want to do this. Which also means walking every day that I can stand to. T's been looking at fountain pens (my 15-lbs goal) a lot lately, so that and my backsliding in Nov-December is really getting me geared up to do this, really do this.
Which means keeping track of everything, so hooray just starting a brand new bullet journal.
On pretty paper. With pretty pens, and banners, and all the whole shebang.
(tis a Mnemosyne, with very nice paper, a little smaller than I wanted but quite nice. Here's a blurry picture).
I want to get the house tidy and keep it that way. I want to actually DO things in spring for the garden.
I want to work actively and consistently on the house.
I want to take a vacation, actually go somewhere. Probably the Adirondacks.
I think it'll be a good year. I think I'm going to try for monthly goals rather than yearly, small, reachable mobile targets.
What about you? How's your 2017 shaping up?
(This is starting to sound like the piece of fiction I wrote for January-by-the-numbers Day One).
I'm going to Do Things in 2017. Lots of things. Well, okay. I'm going to do a reasonable number of things.
I'm going to get my 365-day streak in 4theWords, because when you do that, you get fancy wings. I'm at 50-something now. I can do that.
Cal & I started our new project, so that's a daily writing goal for me - which is conveniently just about a streak-making wordcount on 4thWords.
There's other writing, of course: Edally and the novella thing, Patreon and all the little long-running stories here, the January By The Numbers posts (and so on and so on and so on and...)
I'm back on the weight-loss wagon, because I really want to do this. Which also means walking every day that I can stand to. T's been looking at fountain pens (my 15-lbs goal) a lot lately, so that and my backsliding in Nov-December is really getting me geared up to do this, really do this.
Which means keeping track of everything, so hooray just starting a brand new bullet journal.
On pretty paper. With pretty pens, and banners, and all the whole shebang.
(tis a Mnemosyne, with very nice paper, a little smaller than I wanted but quite nice. Here's a blurry picture).
I want to get the house tidy and keep it that way. I want to actually DO things in spring for the garden.
I want to work actively and consistently on the house.
I want to take a vacation, actually go somewhere. Probably the Adirondacks.
I think it'll be a good year. I think I'm going to try for monthly goals rather than yearly, small, reachable mobile targets.
What about you? How's your 2017 shaping up?
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Date: 2017-01-03 07:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-03 07:53 pm (UTC)I... am not sure. I have been to Bear Lake :-)
I'm thinking... a part that is not Lake George. I'm also thinking I'd like to see the Adirondak Museum again.
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Date: 2017-01-03 08:23 pm (UTC)I am biased because it's near my parents.
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Date: 2017-01-03 08:32 pm (UTC)Thank you.
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Date: 2017-01-04 04:34 am (UTC)The car is still handy for bulk shopping trips and large-volume hauling. (I'm doing a fair bit of shopping on the bike: panniers can carry a remarkable volume of groceries!) If I can keep my driving frequency where I've had it for the past few months, I think I can get away with using Zipcar or similar.
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Date: 2017-01-04 11:18 am (UTC)I want to get bikes, but we need to get a bike rack, sigh. It's on my list but I've been putting it off.
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Date: 2017-01-05 02:16 am (UTC)