This year's list was somewhat ambitious. I know I'm not going to accomplish everything on my list, but I think I'm going to get to a majority of them before the end of the year!
1) Complete 12 Home Improvement Projects
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| New LED fixture at the bottom of the stairs. |
The list to date:
Recover the kitchen chairs.
Add the knobs to the cabinet under the kitchen sink.
Fix the sewer line out of the house, through the basement wall.
Replace the baseboard heater in the hall bathroom.
Replace the lighting in the hall bathroom.
Re-enamel the hallway bathroom tile.
Replace the light at the bottom of the basement stairwell.
Paint the cinder block wall in the basement where we replaced the pipe.
2) Lose a few more inches around my waist.
Honestly, I wanted to lose 2-3 inches. How hard can that be?
Well, I signed up for the dreaded Pilates class. I am enjoying the class, and I am finally beginning to see progress. I am down another clothing size. I'm close now - so very close - to my final goal.
Done!
The first trip was a long weekend to visit our oldest child at school. (OK, that's a maybe..)
Second was the long weekend we spent in Princeton - he was up there for business, and I went up there for a long weekend at our own expense at the end of his official business.
We did get in a third trip - out to Denver for a Memorial Service. We enjoyed ourselves, and had a great time catching up with family from all over the country.
Done! 40 bags in 40 days! I'm looking forward to doing this one again next year!
5) Post at least 12 book reviews on my Books for Teens Blog
9 Down! I need to catch up. I've done a lot of reading this month, but none of it has been from the Young Adult collection. I need to see what I can do about that this month.
You can see my blog here:
https://librarynut-booksforteens.blogspot.com/
9 years after the long nightmare began, we now have 2 working bathrooms in our house!
The moratorium is over! We still don't wantonly spend money, but our savings account is back up where it should be, tuition has been paid, and we're plotting our big home improvement project for next year. Hopefully, that one doesn't cascade into a larger project like this year's project did.
Who am I kidding? It's a home improvement project on a 40 year old house. OF COURSE it's going to be more involved than we want it to be. We need to add an emergency cushion onto the funding for that project when we start planning it out.
8) Learn another language.I have become ridiculously addicted to Telenovelas. I understand less than 1/3 of what they're saying (colors, names, places), but I manage to pick up on more through context clues.
9) 100 Things Every Marylander Should Do
Finally got one!
98) Drive Charles Street from Downtown Baltimore to the County Line
It's a beautiful drive, and shows the diversity of the city. It would be nice to say I had taken this on purpose, but I was lost and saw Charles Street. "Oh hey! I've been meaning to take this all the way out!" And so, I traveled the length of the street AND I found my way to a road I recognized so that I could get home again!
10) Daughter's Quilt
Progress! I am making big progress! It won't be finished before the end of 2017, but it will be finished before the end of the school year!
done! And the stuff I no longer need has been sent to Goodwill.
12) Clean Out the Little Room in the Basement and Make it Usable
No progress this month.
13) Work on Landscaping the Front Yard
Now that fall has rolled around, I need to look at adding some bushes around the foundation of the house.
I finished the class! I submitted two of the lessons that I wrote, and they have been approved as library programs for this summer! Hooray! It's going to be a great summer! Even better? I got a few more CEU's to add to the total number of hours I need to renew my teaching certificate.
How are you doing on your resolutions?
