I did more of my un-challenge! Property taxes paid, vehicle registration renewed.
I just paid a $30 online payment fee to not get Covid paying my taxes (and not get a lein; the tax office is closed due to Covid anyway). This irks me, but on the bright side I donāt have Covid.
Iāve located my winter stuff and some of husbandās winter stuff. No idea where any of his gloves/mittens went, but I looked where they should be and heās responsible for finding or replacing them if he wants warm hands this winter. I set up an organizer that fits smaller hats and mittens but need to come up with a plan for larger hats and scarves still.
Boot tray sorted.
No progress on coats.
This process has also caused me to reorganize and clean some other spaces as I move things around, which is a nice bonus.
Week 1 update:
Brain dump house list was created in a google doc on my phone. The next step is to transfer it into Excel on my husbandās computer so I can add categories.
TV: One item on the list may even get done today! A new tp holder was ordered earlier this week and delivered this afternoon, so all that remains is to install it! I will be so happy to let go of the free-standing TP holder.
Close business checking - need to write a check to myself, deposit it virtually tomorrow.
Set up automatic transfer to Ally online savings - good enough - sent another transfer over and will keep it manual for now.
Contribute to tIRA - done.
Finish baby proofing - move under the sink chemicals, put locks on kitchen cabinets, finish the babyās room - did the office and half of babyās room
Put away the larger size baby clothes.
Clean out garage from the last (and final!) trip from storage.
Sell extra fridge
Actually put up Christmas tree & decorations -plan on next Sunday.
strength-building workout once a week - YES, kettlebell workout yesterday
limit 3 standard alcoholic drinks a week - YES, 1 alcoholic drink this week
limit 3 treats a week - NOPE, this is the 1/5 things I didnāt make this week.
7 hours of sleep 4/7 nights a week - YES, 5/7 nights this week
So I made 4/5 of my goals, which was the achievable overall goal I was hoping for. I tried hard on all of them, all of them took effort. Iām trying to be okay with how much comfort eating Iām still doing, because Iām aware I do actually need the comfort.
Iām late to the party but decided December is something I want to do!
Check in daily with Habitica
Move my body daily (walks, yoga, resistance band exercises, etc)
Put in my resignation notice at work
Find a new home for old handheld games
ETA: Week 1:
Started using Habitica this week and have checked in daily.
Have gone on a walk every day except yesterday, when I did some gentle yoga instead.
Rediscovered box with old Nintendo DS and games (mostly Pokemon). My siblings are too old for these (they have all their own updated gaming devices). Iāll reach out to my aunt first and see if my cousins (ages 9 & 10) want them.
I can almost cross this off my list-I finished going through my will, advanced healthcare directive, and financial power of attorney with mr krmit, asked all relevant parties to be my executor and backup executor, and now all I have to do is print everything out and this dumpster fire is extinguished.
Actually signing and making it legal will have to wait until itās less covidy outside.
I worked on my dumpster fire that is my floors a little yesterday.
At this point, Iām like, 90% convinced I wonāt get done by the end of the year. Finishing the first floor was supposed to be pre-December completion and itās not done yetā¦
However I do have an extra āweekendā essentially before the end of the year because Iām taking the 2 days before NY off?
cancel credit card to avoid annual fee - fee hasnāt posted so I havenāt done this. Hmmā¦maybe they just arenāt charging a fee this year?
cancel streaming service before the monthly rate increases - done!
update income/spending tracker for November - done! Love that new NW number!
round out charitable giving for the year (Hey, itās Giving Tuesday today! I should do this first.) - Gave a lot on Giving Tuesday: more than last year, but not yet at my goal for the year. Still need to decide how much to give to a few new-to-me places.
list at least 5 things on Buy Nothing - one listing done, 4 to go.
finish dumpster fire crochet project - need to do this week
write annual letter
research and write paper for school - need to do this week
finish spice cabinet project
Bonus items (want to get one of the following done):
purchase and install new garbage disposal
clean out pantry
organize craft/storage room (imagine TrisPriorās closet, but a whole room)
Week 1 check-in:
-Scarf knitting: making progress choo choooooo
-Use up 3 lotions: 1 of them is almooooost done
-Read 22 books: LOL. I am releasing my āread 22 booksā goal into the ether, and modifying it to āread 7 booksā to bring my yearly total to 60. Iāve been laid low with massive headaches for the past week, so more than that aināt gonna happen, sigh
Week 1 update:
1- Appointment is in a couple hours!
2- emailed, replied, accepted! Now I need to figure out how to tell the rest of the family without creating DRAMA.
3- no progress on this
4- I finished one book, Iām 50% on another. One and a half left.
When we did this we did not specifically tell family (except for the people involved and the person who will be the executor) but a couple years later I was talking end of life stuff with my mom and she verified that Mr. Meer and I have wills and who do we have set up as Kiddoās guardian. So I agree with not telling proactively but it would be good to have some sort of response that youāre both on board with, especially if thereās likely to be Drama.
A couple things:
-I think they want to be able to talk freely about it without accidentally revealing something/secrets/etc
-my dads former coworker was gonna do the Will for free for us, we were just going to have him pass along info etc. So it would be an awkward changing plans/clearly hiding stuff/etc etc
End of the Year To-Do List 
December is something I want to do!
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cancel credit card to avoid annual fee - fee hasnāt posted so I havenāt done this. Hmmā¦maybe they just arenāt charging a fee this year?
round out charitable giving for the year (Hey, itās Giving Tuesday today! I should do this first.) - Gave a lot on Giving Tuesday: more than last year, but not yet at my goal for the year. Still need to decide how much to give to a few new-to-me places.