NYR Update

July seems like a good time to review my New Year’s Resolutions for 2012 and evaluate.

So, resolution #1, Eat in the Dining Room More:  Fail.  If anything I’m getting worse at that because half the time when we have friends over I forget and set the kitchen table.  I’ll keep trying.

#2, Learn Celsius and Kilometers:  There’s still at least 5 months to get started on that.

#3, Fix Laundry Room:  Done!  Although Trent did most of the work by building and painting the giant pedestal.  And I adapted by plans by not painting the laundry room because that was going to be the world’s biggest pain.

#4, Once A Month Grocery Shopping:  That was a two month time-sucking ordeal that I do not wish to revisit.  Planning out a month of meals and a making a giant grocery list took Forever and shopping once a month means you’re not taking advantage of any sales.  Plus you still have to go to the store once a week.  I’m not sure how people who do that are saving any money.  They’re certainly not saving time, and that’s confirmed by someone who goes to the grocery store at least three times a week.   

#5, Get the Breakfast Dishes Off the Kitchen Table by 10 AM:  Either it happens or it doesn’t, but I would say most days they at least make it to the sink.  I didn’t say breakfast dishes clean by 10 AM.

#6, Overall Get Organized:  I got a new make-up bag after 12 years, so thumbs up.  A few other things have turned around too like…under the kitchen sink and my bathroom sink…and………..this one’s really more of a lifestyle change.  Baby steps.

I did get a really great organizational book at the book sale, written by a woman who I’m guessing has 12 cats and forced herself to be organized, which makes it a superb book.  I can’t take organizational tips from someone who is naturally organized because it’s hard to match mind grapes with them.  I read this book with a pen and marked all the helpful tips, so I think that’s going to help.  One of her tips for keeping a clean purse is to make sure all your random make-up is in a cosmetic bag, which oddly enough, I don’t do.  I need to either make one or stop wasting time lusting over the Marimekko poppies.   I kind of think a purse with that bag would never hit the ground; surely I would always hang it up on the coat rack, and with those bright colors nothing would ever get me down.  I’m 100% sure that isn’t the way life works and a $75 make-up bag isn’t my reality, so I bought a zipper foot for my sewing machine today.

Those were lame resolutions anyway.

Oh well, always onward.  If I would have thought it through more in January, I would have listed the fun goals that I’m actually meeting, like Go To The Pool As Much As Possible.  I did meet my 4th of July goal:

Sometime in the January I added DREAM BIG as my personal theme for the year. My brother-in-law claimed that I borrowed that from Disney and am somehow manipulating that into a vacation (first part false, second part half true) but it’s more than that. I’m an adult and I can make things happen, so why not? I’m not quite sure how that’s working out, because I’ve resolved myself to the fact that bees are not happening until we’re at least through with newborn babies. I did get a little chicken fever the other day though when I sat on a neighbor’s back porch holding one of her chickens and petting it like a knobby-stick footed kitten.  I need to wait that one out for awhile though, as most of my pioneer ideas don’t stick very long once I remember that I would have been a terrible pioneer.  On the other hand, the feral cat population of our backyard is currently at an unprecedented zero, so this might be the time.  Trent could be easily swayed because I can tell he wants to build a chicken coop.  I need to find out what the life span of a chicken is.

Okay, it’s 7-20 years.  I was guessing 3.  I’m going to dream big about something else.