Sunday, January 1, 2023

Happy New Year...And Some Resolutions

Happy New Year to you all!  2022 was...a year.  Not much good or bad to say about the past year but it is nice we are moving on.  I am cautiously hopeful that 2023 will be an even better year than 2022.  Last night we stayed home as usual--once on the Las Vegas Strip for new year's eve was more than enough for us!--and watched the new year countdown on TV while also watching the fireworks on the Las Vegas Strip from our upstairs windows.  Lots of people in our neighborhood set off professional-grade fireworks which are huge and beautiful but it sounded like a war zone around here until well after midnight.  

My resolutions for the coming year are pretty basic and very few, just some things for self improvement and other projects that I really want to accomplish this year.  This should be more manageable, I think, than having a giant list of goals.  My resolutions this year are:

  • Eat whole food, plant-based vegan for the entire year.  This will be difficult but my diet lately has been absolute crap so I started the day today with oatmeal and fruit...so far, so good!
  • Walk every day and finish 100 volksmarches.  My walking club has a challenge to complete 100 10k walks during the year.  I always sign up for this challenge but never complete it so I figure that if I do two walks a week, this will be simple to complete (I always wait until like September when I would have to do a 10k everyday until the end of the year and, needless to say, never do this!).  I want to walk some distance everyday so hubby and I started this goal today by walking 1.5 miles to the grocery store and back where I bought some veggies and took the picture above.
  • Renovate the house.  It has been more than ten years since we bought our house and at the time everything--paint, carpet, appliances, etc--were brand new.  I want to refresh the house with at least paint and new flooring, maybe new appliance and new countertops, and possibly a new AC unit since ours is more than 15 years old.
  • Pay off the house.  We are making good progress on paying off the house but still have several more years left on the mortgage.  This goal is kind of wishful thinking at this point but maybe if I focus on this a la law of attraction thinking, we will miraculously get the house paid off ASAP.
  • Take a photo everyday.  I've tried to do 90 day photo challenges in the past and didn't complete them because other stuff came up.  For now I will see how long I can keep this streak alive and post a daily photo on my other blog as well as Facebook.
  • Do an activity every week.  We generally go out and go shopping or stop by and see friends or go out to eat somewhere every week but this year, at least once a week, I am going to plan an actual activity with hubby.  Our activity for this week will be going to the movies tomorrow (senior day with $4 movies).  When the weather gets warmer we will do more outdoor activities.
  • Blog more consistently.  My blogging here and on my other blog has been kind of hit or miss this year so I want to set a consistent blogging schedule for this year.  Not sure if I will blog daily but at least a couple times a week will be good.
  • Write daily.  I have more than a dozen fiction books in some state of completion.  I love to write and I get inspired and write like a mad woman then get bored and set the book project aside.  Rinse and repeat.  Maybe I will get a whole book finished this year!

That's it!  Eight goals that I will (hopefully) successfully complete this year!

6 comments:

  1. I didn't know you had another blog or maybe I forgot. That is a lot of walking. Wish I could walk down the short driveway to get the mail! You have some great goals for this year.

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    1. I mostly post pictures over at my other blog https://randomthreadsirl.blogspot.com/

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  2. Wow, that's a lot of goals!! I can't believe it's been 10 years since you bought your house. It's nice to refresh things. We just painted our living room and the house feels brighter. A small, not too expensive change, but it made a big difference.

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    1. I love what you've done to your place which is inspiring me to get my house nice and refreshed too!

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  3. I was sure I left a comment but don't see it, so will try again! Those are great goals and I really hope they come to fruition! :)

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    1. Thanks! For some reason your comment came through twice so I just posted one of the. I'm hoping for the fruition thing too... :)

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