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Entry tags:
- 2012,
- family,
- life,
- my because
resolved
So last year I made a post about what I wanted to get done in 2012, and today I am in a pensive sort of mood, so here is how I did on those goals:
2012 in review:
• automate lunch - bring something EVERY DAY that will sustain me for the rest of the day, ideally something I packed the night before. ENH. I definitely have brought a lunch almost every day! …I have definitely NOT managed to pack it the night before on a regular basis. *hands* Tentative win on this one, with room remaining for improvement.
• dinner: branch out and make MORE DIFFERENT RECIPES, especially more things with vegetables, because vegetables are fucking awesome. …I have no idea on this one. Our meal-planning skills are great when we remember to use them, and kind of haphazard otherwise, but I feel like we mostly managed to eat like humans during 2012? Still haven't gotten around my FUCK YOU WHAT DO YOU MEAN I NEED TO MAKE ANOTHER DISH? -block on side dishes.
• drink less beer on school nights…not really, no. I LIKE BEER, OKAY?
• join the Y and swim a few times a week? AHAHAHAHA NOPE. I did have a fairly successful yoga streak in there, before school started back, but swimming absolutely didn't happen, and I'm okay with that.
• Lay out my clothes for work the night before, in order to avoid the sneaky hate spiral of early-morning decisions. WINNAR.
• Relatedly, check the weather before choosing clothes for the next day. …less of a winner, but it's also not so much a big deal now that I drive to work.
• Read books with pages on a semi-regular basis; visit BPL every so often. …yes? in the way where I definitely read more than I was expecting to this year, but not nearly as much as I wanted to. Call this an ongoing goal.
• Call or videochat my parents once a week; call my brother at least once a month. Getting there! I almost always remember to call my folks on Sunday evening (except this month, because I am an asshole), and the brother and I have agreed that we will talk more often in 2013.
• Be awesome at my full-time student teaching gig. CHECK.
• Graduate. CHECKITTY CHECK, oh god I'm not going to be in school again for the forseeable future HOW WEIRD IS THAT.
• Get a job starting next fall. Check!
So those were my goals! I feel like I mostly did okay at them, with the exception of a few things that turned out to not be that important after all.
I'm trying to think of a pat way of summing up 2012, and I just...I really can't. 2012 had dead relatives and family togetherness time on both sides of the aisle, and some of it was really hard and a lot of it was wicked awkward, but on the whole, I like the people I'm related to. At the end of 2011, I was a full-time grad student, working in an office and student teaching one day a week; now, at the end of 2012, I'm a full-time teacher getting paid in actual dollars to learn kids how to talk French more gooder. I got my freaking master's, guys, and J's family met my family and nothing exploded. I had possibly one of the hardest summers ever at camp, full of stuff that I'm still turning over in my head. J and I adopted a second cat. J and I got engaged.
So, yeah. That happened. Thanks for being around, internet!
2012 in review:
• automate lunch - bring something EVERY DAY that will sustain me for the rest of the day, ideally something I packed the night before. ENH. I definitely have brought a lunch almost every day! …I have definitely NOT managed to pack it the night before on a regular basis. *hands* Tentative win on this one, with room remaining for improvement.
• dinner: branch out and make MORE DIFFERENT RECIPES, especially more things with vegetables, because vegetables are fucking awesome. …I have no idea on this one. Our meal-planning skills are great when we remember to use them, and kind of haphazard otherwise, but I feel like we mostly managed to eat like humans during 2012? Still haven't gotten around my FUCK YOU WHAT DO YOU MEAN I NEED TO MAKE ANOTHER DISH? -block on side dishes.
• drink less beer on school nights…not really, no. I LIKE BEER, OKAY?
• join the Y and swim a few times a week? AHAHAHAHA NOPE. I did have a fairly successful yoga streak in there, before school started back, but swimming absolutely didn't happen, and I'm okay with that.
• Lay out my clothes for work the night before, in order to avoid the sneaky hate spiral of early-morning decisions. WINNAR.
• Relatedly, check the weather before choosing clothes for the next day. …less of a winner, but it's also not so much a big deal now that I drive to work.
• Read books with pages on a semi-regular basis; visit BPL every so often. …yes? in the way where I definitely read more than I was expecting to this year, but not nearly as much as I wanted to. Call this an ongoing goal.
• Call or videochat my parents once a week; call my brother at least once a month. Getting there! I almost always remember to call my folks on Sunday evening (except this month, because I am an asshole), and the brother and I have agreed that we will talk more often in 2013.
• Be awesome at my full-time student teaching gig. CHECK.
• Graduate. CHECKITTY CHECK, oh god I'm not going to be in school again for the forseeable future HOW WEIRD IS THAT.
• Get a job starting next fall. Check!
So those were my goals! I feel like I mostly did okay at them, with the exception of a few things that turned out to not be that important after all.
I'm trying to think of a pat way of summing up 2012, and I just...I really can't. 2012 had dead relatives and family togetherness time on both sides of the aisle, and some of it was really hard and a lot of it was wicked awkward, but on the whole, I like the people I'm related to. At the end of 2011, I was a full-time grad student, working in an office and student teaching one day a week; now, at the end of 2012, I'm a full-time teacher getting paid in actual dollars to learn kids how to talk French more gooder. I got my freaking master's, guys, and J's family met my family and nothing exploded. I had possibly one of the hardest summers ever at camp, full of stuff that I'm still turning over in my head. J and I adopted a second cat. J and I got engaged.
So, yeah. That happened. Thanks for being around, internet!