Well, it's the start of a new year, so it's time for my annual goal-setting post. Or wishful thinking post, more likely. But anyway, here we are.
Hopefully 2022 will be better than 2021, but I'm not optimistic. I tried ( Read more... )

Hey, 2021! Don't let the door hit you on the way out. And I thought 2020 was bad... Last New Year's day I wrote:
I would like to think that 2021 will be an improvement on its predecessor, but I am not so foolish as to say so out loud for fear that it will be taken as a challenge.

It didn't work. A year that starts with an ( Read more... )

I would like to think that 2021 will be an improvement on its predecessor ( Read more... )

Here, for what it's worth, is my review of the goals from last New Year's Day. I'm not sure there's ever been a year I was as glad to see the ass-end of as 2020, though 1990, 1999, 2012, and 2016 all had their awful parts, and I'm really bad at ranking things.

1. I've never been much good at self care, either, so I'm putting it on ( Read more... )

It seems that the last nummbered episode of the COVID-19 saga was mdlbear | COVID-19: Episode 13: randomness, planning, accountability, back on May 22nd. It, in turn, referred back to my New Year's Day post. So in the interest of accountability...
Of the New Years' goals, #2 (Mom's 100th birthday party) has of course ( Read more... )

(Note: this post was started Sunday the 3rd, and planned as Episode 11, but it got pre-empted Monday morning and again on Tuesday. It then got dropped on the floor while wrote Singing in the time of COVID-19.)
I have not been getting much done. I'd originally meant this to be a mix ( Read more... )

I've never been any good at setting goals, and it's going to be harder ( Read more... )

It's that time of year -- the time when I look back over my goals for the year that was, and cringe. Actually, I did better this year than last. But that's a very low bar.

1. Okay, then. The number one goal is simply getting through the damned year, alive and with one or more roofs over our heads...
   90% -- always ( Read more... )

At this point I could punt and simply carry all of last year's goals ( Read more... )

... and as usual, even a lot of things that should have been easy didn't get done. I'd say that I blew it completely, but that's probably letting myself off easy.
Let's look at the goals for this year:
( tl;dr: a total disaster )