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!