christmas!

yay presents! though not many presents for me, we're going away for christmas so we just give small token gifts instead.

I've kind of decided to change the rules of the goal achieving, more to give me a fighting chance of achieving them than anything. For goals that have multiples given in terms of time (ie. go to the library every other month) I'm going to change it to doing it however many times that turns out to be. Since I have still not joined a library, so I'm already two months behind. Now I just need to use it 17 times, and I'll achieve that goal. Gives me a bit more flexibility.

So I'm going to write out the goals in a notebook as a way to keep track of them. For the multiple ones above, I plan to write out the numbers in reverse order, so I cross off whenever I do one, and always know how many are left. The long list of un-crossed-off numbers shoudl scare me into action! It will also give me the sense of satisfaction you get from crossing things off lists. I love lists, and love crossing things off, so this works for me. For the other goals, I'm going to leave room to write a brief description of what I did when to achieve it, so that I have a kind of diary of the project. Obviously not in the order of time, but that's not important. This is all a plan for the new year, when I get back. Instead of making resolutions, I'm just going to focus on actually accomplishing some of the things on my list, since any resolutions I made would be basically covering the same things. Once I get the goals written out on paper, I'm going to try to make rough plans for a timeline to achieve them. Some of them are already planned, like I have a spa day and a trip to the AGO planned in January, so two goals are covered. Now I just have to get the rest of them planned!

No more studying!

Wooo, I passed the UFE! I am now free from studying forever, or until I choose to do so of my own free will. That might take awhile. I am also proud to say that I passed the CKE, SOA and UFE all on the first try, no repeats. Now I just have to wait until my time requirement is satisfied, and I will be a full-blown CA!

With passing, I am now three goals down, only 98 more to go. Sadly, I did not sit down and make a plan to attack my goals since my last post, as I had planned. I am great at procrastinating though. I have done my pushups, not as often as I'm supposed to but I'm getting there. I keep forgetting to do them. I think I need to start making to do lists again. I've also started knitting again, and am almost done another Kappa square. Does it count that I organized all of my knitting stuff, forgetting that it was the sewing stuff that I put as the goal item?

On another note, Christmas is almost here! I'm partway through shopping, with ideas for most of the people I have yet to buy for. Some are always harder than others. I just have to start making the time to get all that done, before I'm out of time!