I hear you want a Resolution …

First off, a review of last year’s New Year Resolutions:

1. Spend more time with Kitten.

Hmmmm. Yes and no. Enjoyed my post-pre-school drives home with her, but those have gotten much less frequent with her bus riding from Kindergarten. I’d say this remains a necessity. Knowing myself, I need to set up a standard time for this sort of thing — when she gets home, or when I got home, or at bed time (difficult), or “Katherine Thursdays” or something of that sort. I get too easily distracted (to/from everything).

2. Try to cut back on external commitments some. Family first. In particular, as rewarding as the various activities at church have been, I’ve overcommitted there on both the Search and the Vestry stuff. Nothing to do for that (and I’m not going to back out on them), but as those responsibilities begin to wind down, I don’t plan on going out of my way to backfill that time with more commitments there. Easier said, perhaps, than done.

Well, I’m not sure that I succeeded here, either, though I certainly tried. Coming off of Vestry will be a big help. Unfortunately, work commitments have ramped up even as other commitments have ramped down.

On the other hand, I have, as noted elsewhere, been spending more time with Margie (CoH-wise) than our parallel pasttimes in the past have allowed.

3. Write. Edit. Write. To wit, a minimum of 15 minutes per day on writing activities. Minimum. Whatever it takes.

I was really glad I did the pseudo-NaNoWriMo over November, and I’ve done a fair amount of light writing for the CoH boards. But, really, didn’t do much with this. Bleah.

4. Keep the weight off, and walk 1,000 miles to nowhere.

Aha! A pretty decent success. Actually dropped added weight and made it to 1,500 miles! Who’d have thought that the stereotypical physical health side of a Resolutions List would be what I ended up doing successfully?

So … what to take for next year?

Hrm.

Well, hell, I don’t see much reason to change the list:

1. Spend more time with Kitten.
2. Try to cut back on external commitments some. Family first.

3. Write. Edit. Write.

4. Keep the weight off, and walk 1,500 miles to nowhere.

How’s them apples?

Happy New Year!