Alright, as mentioned in the memeing our way through the apocalypse thread, here is a place to share New Year’s Resolutions. Because why not? 2022 was pretty awesome and went exactly to plan and nothing went wrong, so I can only expect 2023 to be bigger and better!
So, get out your navels and start gazing. Reflection, introspection and maybe a bit of dissection.
I’ll start:
It’s become apparent that I do not use my mornings very well. A smile child wakes up at 5:30am and I tend to begrudgingly stare at it while drinking coffee until it’s time to get ready for work/daycare/life.
Workout why my lower back/right hamstring are still causing me pain after running. And maybe even do the physio exercises that I know will fix it.
Eat fruit. The boy eats 5 apples a day I could probably stretch to one.
I think I’d be happier if I could appreciate the wonderful opportunity being woken up at 5am really is?
Oh and I will get those abs this year. 21st year running for this resolution. Maybe this year is the one.
I want to continue working on my channel and producing content I believe in once a week.
I want to maintain the friendships I have. I feel like 2022 was the best I’ve ever done with close relationship things. It doesn’t come naturally for me to reach out and stay in touch, but I did!
I want to meet more people. It would be great to make a couple more friends in the area, especially if they’re into some things I’m into, so we can do that stuff together.
I want to keep volunteering because I love it. I’m hoping to double the frequency but if I have to cut back again it will be unavoidable and not a failure.
I’d like to keep having productive days like I have been the last couple of months.
I want to keep going to therapy and being open there.
I want to go to Paris.
I want to do lots of camping over the summer.
I have one other private personal goal but I’m not sure if it’s right yet.
Find a job or another source of income which is enough to make a difference, $100/month or more, reliably. The antique store is erratic, sometimes I do that, mostly I don’t.
Finish selling or donating or dumping the excess stuff so I can close the antique booth,if it isnt the income source.
Given what my bingo looks like this year, actually complete a couple house projects next year. There are a wide selection to choose from, and I really need the list to get shorter instead of longer for once. Also going to target walking an average of 10mi a week (I might be doing this now since I have a treadmill under my desk at home and walk during meetings, but I haven’t tracked at all and am curious).
Well there’s 36 hours left in 2022 and I had another good cry about being fucked by health insurance* but instead of on the floor, it was dramatically walking in the rain after coming out the pharmacy.
*why are they allowed to require me to get a 14 day supply of a drug when my doctor prescribed 90 days? And the copay for the 14 day supply is $38 but it’s only $30 for the 90 day supply? So I just paid double what I should’ve been required to pay, because insurance would only approve 14 days of a super safe drug that only costs $.04 a pill to produce?
