New Year's Resolutions/Goats

[misslynx]

Yes, I know it's a cheesy practice, and yes, I know the new year for me technically started at Samhain, but what the hell... (Goats = Goals. There's a story behind that...)

1. Get ladyjane's immigration sorted out and finished once and for all.
   
2. Be more organized, especially on business stuff, and in particular, manage my time better. I've noticed in retrospect that the word "time" appears an awful lot in these resolutions...
   
3. MAKE MORE MONEY.
   
4. Be more proactive in general. Act on new ideas. This would probably help with the above.
   
5. 50bookchallenge. And review each one for Wild Ideas.
   
6. Speaking of which: Finish Wild Ideas redesign, and start actively getting more content up.
   
7. Also redesign Spider Silk Design site.
   
8. And get the Alternative Business Network up and running. As a web resource if nothing else.
   
9. I suppose I could sum up the above three by saying: spend more time on my own web projects so that the cobbler's children finally have some decent fucking shoes.
   
10. Spend more quality time with Ladyjane.
    
11. Get my app in for the IOT distance training program.
    
12. Try to shift to a somewhat more diurnal schedule. No more staying up until 5 am.
    
13. Make time for some alone-time with optimystik now and then. Time with just Ladyjane is nice, time with all three of us together is nice, time alone is nice, but there's another piece of the puzzle there that needs some attention.
    
14. Get all the animals microchipped, and up to date on physicals/vaccinations/etc. Fulfilling #3 would probably help with that.
    
15. Finish the last remaining bit of work I need to do in order to get my Odyssean second degree. I've been stalling on this for something like a decade now and it's getting pathetic.
    
16. Eat healthier. Exercise more (longer dog walks would help). Keep losing weight. Target: 175.
    
17. Get more nice clothes that fit and flatter my now somewhat smaller bod. (This probably also relies on #3 to some extent.) And/or learn to sew better so that I can make some.
    
18. Spend more time with friends, especially the friends that aren't part of our gaming circle, as we see those ones a lot just by default. And especially our female friends. More girls' nights out/in.
    
19. Take Kiska to the track and other dog parks more. She's getting de-socialized and can't cope with seeing other dogs. This trend needs to be reversed. (This would also help with objective #16.)
    
20. Finish book manuscript! Or at least make considerable progress.
    
21. Market my business more actively, and just generally raise my professional profile. Look for opportunities to do more public speaking, write more articles, etc.
    
22. Try to get more solid, competent members into the coven, including preferably some who will lead ritual once in a while.
    
23. Spend less time on Livejournal!