2012 Resolutions
This year I am limiting my resolutions to ten definite, check-off-able tasks I want to accomplish.
Publish, market, and sell my Pantry Meals book.
I’ll probably give away more copies than I sell, but it will be an interesting project to attempt. A blog overhaul (including a new name and URL) is part of the project.
Complete & hang cross-stitch piece.
It didn’t happen last year, so maybe this year.
Go paperless: Cloth kitchen, cloth napkins, cloth kleenex. Computer record keeping & filing.
We won’t be totally paperless, of course, but where it is feasible and more convenient, we will move paperless. Here is the place to admit that Matt surprised me with an iPad 2 a couple months ago (he received an out-of-the-blue $500 AmEx gift card at work and decided it was an iPad) and he recently replaced his home computer (which broke in part due to an unsupervised toddler) with a MacBook Air. So with Macs all around, and portable ones at that, we should be able to work out some compatible system betwixt us.
Read a minimum of 12 fiction titles and read at least a list of 24 books selected from my library.
I will post the lists later. I didn’t read enough fiction this year; I found I couldn’t really settle my mind down and shift gears enough to enter a story. I don’t think that’s a good thing. So I want to read at least 1 fiction title a month. Also, since I have a huge number of books I really, really want to read on my shelf, I decided I would limit myself to a list of 24 (2 a month) that I would definitely get to this year. Again, the list will come later.
Use the cork collection.
We have saved our corks for the last 9 years, and we have a big basket full. There are several projects I want to make with them, so this year I’ll get that done. The project I want to do the most is a cork letter for the wall; first I will have to narrow down what kind — there are lots of different tutorials online!
Decorate Ilse’s bedroom.
This will be her birthday present, so it should get done right away. It is part of my slow-and-steady decorating resolve.
Create & complete my own supplemental cleaning task list.
Following through on the 31-Days-to-Clean project opened my eyes to how many cleaning tasks never even occur to me. So I want to take that cleaning task list and customize it to my house and style and come up with my own annual task list. I think I’m going to shoot for 50 15-minute tasks — approximately 1 15-minute task a week.
Read through the Bible.
This is a Good Thing. I would like it to become a yearly habit. I usually make it through the New Testament several times, but I need a more methodical plan to make it through the entire Old Testament.
Complete a household notebook on Evernote.
I have paper versions and bits and pieces of my household notebooks from the last 10 years (I’ve probably made about 5 partial iterations). Time to move it to digital, especially since I really have been improving in working the systems since I did the GTD series.
Get a long row of raspberries planted, staked, & established.
The garden goal for the year. I have the place picked and the vision of what it should look like, so this year will be the year to make it happen. The strawberries were such a surprising success in 2011, that I am excited to tackle raspberries as well.
