New Year, resolutions...pish.
A new year is here, and looking more busy than the last. I read a post on http://www.crazyauntpurl.com/ about how she manages her goals. A grid and some stickers. Simple, and if the dog gets a hold of it, he doesn't destroy it. (Like some electronic devices he's got his teeth into.) I love stuff like that. So now the wedding is over, and the holidays, and things seem to be settling into what normal is. Well what it will be until 1) I die, 2) my husband dies, 3) I lose my marbles and become a wandering crazy(er) old lady. In the case of 1 and 3, it won't matter to me. And in the case of 2, things are just getting into a groove in a good way, so I don't even want to think of that.
I'm not into resolutions, I decide I want to do things on a pretty regular basis. I review my finaces (hahahahaha) like 3 times a year. I go over my to-do list, and I keep a long term to-do list that I usually never get around to around the first of the year. All that said, to say these are NOT 'New Year Resolutions'. But there are a few things I want to do and some habits I want to develop, now this last crazy chapter of my life has closed.
I want to, check something off the list of house stuff I've had hanging around for years, and years, and years. The problem is I hate construction/destruction/remodeling. All of it, in any shape or form. I don't even like to paint. I like the end result, but not the process.
Knit or crochet 4 nights a week, while doing something else. I have lots of patterns, lots of books, and lots of yarn to get through. And two grandson's on the way. Let the clicking of the needles begin. And others who are expecting grandkids or I promised afghans to ages ago, let the hooking begin. Here's a sample of the yarning-to-do. Monster backpack, 2 hippos from one Itty Bitty Toys, and one from Knitted Travels. An afghan for a co-workers grandbaby coming this summer. An afghan for my grandson coming in April. Hemstitched burp rags (4) for a co-workers who grandkids are over 4 months old (see what a slacker I am!). Hemstitched blankets for grandsons in April and March. A griaffe out of Itty Bitty Toys that is the whole stinking reason I started to knit to begin with. Finish the Sunrise, Sunset afghan I started, oh, I don't know 4 years or more ago. Make something this year with cables on it, maybe Sam the Ram. Make a pair of fingerless gloves or mits. Maybe, if I have time make some socks. Oh, and do the dishcloth swap every couple of months.
Read 4 times a week. I have stacks of books I want to read. Classics I have bought, and not made time for. Read, Michelle, read. I finished a book last night, hurray! I only got it for Christmas 2 years ago and started it this fall. The Confession by John Grisham. Not his best work, but I always enjoy a book by him.
Vacuum once a week. Seems nuts, but it's always something I think, oh, I'll do that later, tomorrow, whatever.
Walk three times a week. Do at least 3 5k or 10k events this year.
Post to this blog 4 times a week. I've got stacks (metaphorically) for this blog. I take photos all the time. Work has a whole host of wildlife around it. Last week, I seen 10 species of birds in one day! And write in my journal once a month. If something happened to me, and no one knows about this blog, then all of the history and insight to me is lost. I view my journal as a historical document for future generations. A way for them to have insight into the past. And there is just something about reading something written in someone's script. I have a few pages my grandmother wrote, and it's just notes, scribblings really. But it is a very precious snapshot of her at that moment in her life, captured for me to visit.
Here's a couple of photo's of what the air has been like. Both of them were taken on Legacy highway around 8-9am. Today it was 12 degrees outside and terrible air make it hard to spot. Look in the lower left quatrant of the first photo and you can see the flame from the refinery. The fog and smog and very, very cold make for interesting mornings.
I'm not into resolutions, I decide I want to do things on a pretty regular basis. I review my finaces (hahahahaha) like 3 times a year. I go over my to-do list, and I keep a long term to-do list that I usually never get around to around the first of the year. All that said, to say these are NOT 'New Year Resolutions'. But there are a few things I want to do and some habits I want to develop, now this last crazy chapter of my life has closed.
I want to, check something off the list of house stuff I've had hanging around for years, and years, and years. The problem is I hate construction/destruction/remodeling. All of it, in any shape or form. I don't even like to paint. I like the end result, but not the process.
Knit or crochet 4 nights a week, while doing something else. I have lots of patterns, lots of books, and lots of yarn to get through. And two grandson's on the way. Let the clicking of the needles begin. And others who are expecting grandkids or I promised afghans to ages ago, let the hooking begin. Here's a sample of the yarning-to-do. Monster backpack, 2 hippos from one Itty Bitty Toys, and one from Knitted Travels. An afghan for a co-workers grandbaby coming this summer. An afghan for my grandson coming in April. Hemstitched burp rags (4) for a co-workers who grandkids are over 4 months old (see what a slacker I am!). Hemstitched blankets for grandsons in April and March. A griaffe out of Itty Bitty Toys that is the whole stinking reason I started to knit to begin with. Finish the Sunrise, Sunset afghan I started, oh, I don't know 4 years or more ago. Make something this year with cables on it, maybe Sam the Ram. Make a pair of fingerless gloves or mits. Maybe, if I have time make some socks. Oh, and do the dishcloth swap every couple of months.
Read 4 times a week. I have stacks of books I want to read. Classics I have bought, and not made time for. Read, Michelle, read. I finished a book last night, hurray! I only got it for Christmas 2 years ago and started it this fall. The Confession by John Grisham. Not his best work, but I always enjoy a book by him.
Vacuum once a week. Seems nuts, but it's always something I think, oh, I'll do that later, tomorrow, whatever.
Walk three times a week. Do at least 3 5k or 10k events this year.
Post to this blog 4 times a week. I've got stacks (metaphorically) for this blog. I take photos all the time. Work has a whole host of wildlife around it. Last week, I seen 10 species of birds in one day! And write in my journal once a month. If something happened to me, and no one knows about this blog, then all of the history and insight to me is lost. I view my journal as a historical document for future generations. A way for them to have insight into the past. And there is just something about reading something written in someone's script. I have a few pages my grandmother wrote, and it's just notes, scribblings really. But it is a very precious snapshot of her at that moment in her life, captured for me to visit.
Here's a couple of photo's of what the air has been like. Both of them were taken on Legacy highway around 8-9am. Today it was 12 degrees outside and terrible air make it hard to spot. Look in the lower left quatrant of the first photo and you can see the flame from the refinery. The fog and smog and very, very cold make for interesting mornings.
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| Legacy Highway, Bountiful refinery. January 21, 2013 |
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| Legacy Highway, west of Bountiful January 4, 2013 |
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